That's a good first step, but how about requiring manufacturers to provide all root/administrative access to the hardware they've purchased? It's my fucking gadget.
Either the research is flawed, or the people they studied are going to fail miserably in the "real world".
I find myself stretching the truth, or dodging accurate answers, when speaking in person far more often than I do in text. With text there is a document recorded for all time which can be referenced at any time. If it's not correct it's going to destroy you. If you say something untrue it's possible to wiggle out by claiming you were misunderstood or misheard.
Typically there is more time to build accurate and honest replies in text than there is in verbal communication. When you're speaking with someone they expect the reply RIGHT THEN, so you make some shit up to cover your ass. If you have more time you can formulate a true(er) response, or build truth prior to making your reply.
Spoken: "Hey babe, did you take out the trash?" "Uh, yep." The hell you did. And now you have to get the trash out before she finds out.
Text: "Hey babe, did you take out the trash?" Take out the trash. "Yep. At the curb."
No deceit. Just delay of truth due to available features of the means of communication.
And your one use of the optical drive was actually a detriment to the function you were attempting to accomplish. It would have been better served on a USB memory stick. Faster speed and the ability to store changes. Not to mention far more capacity, AND less power consumption on your laptop.
I think the term "phone" by today's standards is a bit of a misnomer. It's a handheld internet device. Who actually uses their 'mobile' as a phone as the primary function?
I don't think that would wake me up. Especially if I moved around and the phone fell to the floor under the bed.
My on call shifts don't typically go past 10 PM (we have global staff), so I usually just stay up. But if I do go to bed I leave my phone on 'GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED' mode. My wife understands the situation, even offers to make sure I get out of bed in the event of an email or call, because she knows the on call work equals extra income, which means a portion (let's be honest, all of it) is hers. If you're not getting some kind of additional compensation for your on call, stop doing it.
I like the wrist band idea. You could also build a Lego Mindstorm contraption to drop soccer balls on your head.
I honestly don't know. But my grandmother (now 100 years old), used to swear by them. She uses some kind of video enlarger with a TV and used to have a PC with some outrageously over priced assistance software, but that's too difficult anymore. I believe she still uses their books on tape service, which used to be special format cassettes, but surely that's moved to solid state now.
I was actually going to mention in an MMO like this subscribers could pay for higher rank (access to more areas), and free players would be forced to be ensigns with server assigned names.
We've created about 6 positions at my employer over the past 2 to 3 years and interviewed a few vets each time. Typically somewhat older gentlemen, which could also be a factor here. But every time their skill set was a little obscure, and their personality was really hard to acclimate to, even in an interview session where everyone is trying to be as happy and jovial as possible.
That's not to say that they're bad guys, just that they might have a difficult time figuring out how to fit into a civilian IT environment. But I guess there's nothing new about that.
And now Google is encouraging ramping up geothermal (which looks like good stuff for Oregon!), and again requires little cost in maintenance.
Electricity is electricity. The expectation is that when I plug something into an outlet in my house I will get 110v. With the exception of inadequate supply, electricity in any home in the United States should be identical. No one advertises that their electricity is better, so there is no competition in 'who builds a better product'. Is this something the government should take control of, create jobs to build more clean energy production, end-of-life fuel burning generators, and turn electricity into a 'free service'? Residential use up to a certain usage could be free, while overages would incur modest fees. Commercial locations would continue to pay same or even reduced rates to help maintain the facilities. Theoretically this could encourage the move to electricity in other areas currently using other fuel sources, like automobiles. Electric cars are cheaper to operate now, but what if it was FREE?
Surely someone better at programming than myself has either produced or is working on a simple set of software that will fill these databases with false information, rendering the whole thing unreliable. This actually seems like an appropriate task for an organization which refers to itself as anonymous .
Even if human interaction is needed (or better at than software) to create the accounts (answer captchas), once the couple million accounts are up and running they could randomly friend and unfriend each other, get involved in various groups, produce believable profiles, and become pollutants in the databases of companies such as Google and Facebook. Before long there rises the question, "is this profile real or fake? can't answer that? can't consider it real". The fakes could even base their profile on real profiles, altering things like school graduation year, and selecting a subset of contacts from various 'friends' of the real profile. With just a few 'friends' on Facebook an account rapidly begins receiving suggestions from Facebook itself on who might also be a known friend. It would be self propagating.
This may already be in action. I've had a few people/accounts that I did not know on Facebook send me a friend request, but were friends with several of my friends. Before accepting I asked our mutual friends if they knew who this person was. More often than not my friends said they didn't know them but since we went to high school together they didn't want to be rude. NO THANKS! Just as easily as this could be a data pollutant account it could also be a 3rd party mining Facebook for private information. Social engineering has always been a more powerful method than security hacking.
Anyway, I just think that rather than fighting for privacy the better approach is to corrupt their data through their own system. It seems more wicked.
"He recounts how he stepped once off a helicopter for a meeting in Brazil and minutes later was informed a video of himself doing that had been posted to YouTube, something he found to be a discomforting experience."
So he doesn't like being a celebrity. This isn't exactly new to the human experience. The rate at which the information travels is somewhat new, but Vint is one of the men responsible for that condition, and he did it intentionally.
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Are they also creating an evaporation effect in the region that supplies air moisture to the region they're trying to create precipitation in?
That's a good first step, but how about requiring manufacturers to provide all root/administrative access to the hardware they've purchased? It's my fucking gadget.
You're an idiot either way for not watching the "idiot box." :(
Not in my book. The way I see it, you're a fucking hero. Keep up the good work.
How big is your budget?
http://www.kaleidescape.com/
http://www.kaleidescape.com/products/
Beautiful stuff. Flawless operation. Drains your bank account.
Either the research is flawed, or the people they studied are going to fail miserably in the "real world".
I find myself stretching the truth, or dodging accurate answers, when speaking in person far more often than I do in text. With text there is a document recorded for all time which can be referenced at any time. If it's not correct it's going to destroy you. If you say something untrue it's possible to wiggle out by claiming you were misunderstood or misheard.
Typically there is more time to build accurate and honest replies in text than there is in verbal communication. When you're speaking with someone they expect the reply RIGHT THEN, so you make some shit up to cover your ass. If you have more time you can formulate a true(er) response, or build truth prior to making your reply.
Spoken:
"Hey babe, did you take out the trash?"
"Uh, yep."
The hell you did. And now you have to get the trash out before she finds out.
Text:
"Hey babe, did you take out the trash?"
Take out the trash.
"Yep. At the curb."
No deceit. Just delay of truth due to available features of the means of communication.
And your one use of the optical drive was actually a detriment to the function you were attempting to accomplish. It would have been better served on a USB memory stick. Faster speed and the ability to store changes. Not to mention far more capacity, AND less power consumption on your laptop.
I think the term "phone" by today's standards is a bit of a misnomer. It's a handheld internet device. Who actually uses their 'mobile' as a phone as the primary function?
I don't think that would wake me up. Especially if I moved around and the phone fell to the floor under the bed.
My on call shifts don't typically go past 10 PM (we have global staff), so I usually just stay up. But if I do go to bed I leave my phone on 'GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED' mode. My wife understands the situation, even offers to make sure I get out of bed in the event of an email or call, because she knows the on call work equals extra income, which means a portion (let's be honest, all of it) is hers. If you're not getting some kind of additional compensation for your on call, stop doing it.
I like the wrist band idea. You could also build a Lego Mindstorm contraption to drop soccer balls on your head.
I honestly don't know. But my grandmother (now 100 years old), used to swear by them. She uses some kind of video enlarger with a TV and used to have a PC with some outrageously over priced assistance software, but that's too difficult anymore. I believe she still uses their books on tape service, which used to be special format cassettes, but surely that's moved to solid state now.
Oh come on, where are the charts and graphs? This is prime data for charts and graphs!
The hobby statisticians in the room are quite displeased.
http://lighthouse-sf.org/
Surely his doctors have mentioned these people?
South of there, what is this!?!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.110179,93.994217&spn=0.037745,0.077162&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14
I was actually going to mention in an MMO like this subscribers could pay for higher rank (access to more areas), and free players would be forced to be ensigns with server assigned names.
I still think RIM's best bet is to make an enterprise grade 'app' for Apple iOS and Android to provide Blackberry style service on non-RIM hardware.
We've created about 6 positions at my employer over the past 2 to 3 years and interviewed a few vets each time. Typically somewhat older gentlemen, which could also be a factor here. But every time their skill set was a little obscure, and their personality was really hard to acclimate to, even in an interview session where everyone is trying to be as happy and jovial as possible.
That's not to say that they're bad guys, just that they might have a difficult time figuring out how to fit into a civilian IT environment. But I guess there's nothing new about that.
I've seen British porn, and it was by no means earth moving.
What happens if two dudes show up in a blue Miata?
Seriously. Electricity to residential users should be free (up to a consumption level).
Earlier this year my wife and I visited Grand Coulee Dam. It produces nearly 7GW and costs them rather little in maintenance to operate.
This weekend we drove through the windmills in eastern Washington and Oregon. They sit there and turn generating more power than can be transmitted, costing little in maintenance to operate.
And now Google is encouraging ramping up geothermal (which looks like good stuff for Oregon!), and again requires little cost in maintenance.
Electricity is electricity. The expectation is that when I plug something into an outlet in my house I will get 110v. With the exception of inadequate supply, electricity in any home in the United States should be identical. No one advertises that their electricity is better, so there is no competition in 'who builds a better product'. Is this something the government should take control of, create jobs to build more clean energy production, end-of-life fuel burning generators, and turn electricity into a 'free service'? Residential use up to a certain usage could be free, while overages would incur modest fees. Commercial locations would continue to pay same or even reduced rates to help maintain the facilities. Theoretically this could encourage the move to electricity in other areas currently using other fuel sources, like automobiles. Electric cars are cheaper to operate now, but what if it was FREE?
Seems like something to think about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR931mtC3l4
I'm fascinated by all these kinds of mechanics.
Is leaked the new catchy term?
I do
Yes, this post is redundant. But I'm compelled to say, this dude is fucking crazy. No need to go into details.
Surely someone better at programming than myself has either produced or is working on a simple set of software that will fill these databases with false information, rendering the whole thing unreliable. This actually seems like an appropriate task for an organization which refers to itself as anonymous .
Even if human interaction is needed (or better at than software) to create the accounts (answer captchas), once the couple million accounts are up and running they could randomly friend and unfriend each other, get involved in various groups, produce believable profiles, and become pollutants in the databases of companies such as Google and Facebook. Before long there rises the question, "is this profile real or fake? can't answer that? can't consider it real". The fakes could even base their profile on real profiles, altering things like school graduation year, and selecting a subset of contacts from various 'friends' of the real profile. With just a few 'friends' on Facebook an account rapidly begins receiving suggestions from Facebook itself on who might also be a known friend. It would be self propagating.
This may already be in action. I've had a few people/accounts that I did not know on Facebook send me a friend request, but were friends with several of my friends. Before accepting I asked our mutual friends if they knew who this person was. More often than not my friends said they didn't know them but since we went to high school together they didn't want to be rude. NO THANKS! Just as easily as this could be a data pollutant account it could also be a 3rd party mining Facebook for private information. Social engineering has always been a more powerful method than security hacking.
Anyway, I just think that rather than fighting for privacy the better approach is to corrupt their data through their own system. It seems more wicked.
"He recounts how he stepped once off a helicopter for a meeting in Brazil and minutes later was informed a video of himself doing that had been posted to YouTube, something he found to be a discomforting experience."
So he doesn't like being a celebrity. This isn't exactly new to the human experience. The rate at which the information travels is somewhat new, but Vint is one of the men responsible for that condition, and he did it intentionally.
I have no sympathy for this concern.
I've been using the ASUS (yeah I know, shut up) RT-N16 with DD-WRT installed and have been really pleased.
http://www.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/RTN16/#specifications
It is/was actually a top recommended DD-WRT device. It's also cheap.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320038
I honestly am unsure of pricing but I believe it's fairly inexpensive. We use Kerio Control and are migrating to the 3110 appliance.
http://www.kerio.com/control
It does all kind of neat reporting.
We also use Cymphonix traffic shaping devices that have insane detail on reporting but I believe they're very expensive.
http://cymphonix.com/