In other words the background radiation of the debris area was less than the natural background radiation of natural Uranium rich areas like Western Africa, or in fact many parts of Canada, which have higher radiation levels than the debris area.
I tell customers to either go to a friends house and burn the new software (I give them all the URLs), or I burn them a custom CD and have them come into the office to pick it up. I don't charge them for the CD, and I use it to distribute Firefox/Thunderbird/Spybot,Stinger, etc, etc, etc. Eventually I will set the network up so I can just redirect users to a webserver with all the needed tools on it.
I sniff our network and suspend them (drop their DSL link), if they are sending out a whack of spam or viruses. I call their house and leave a message explaining why they won't be able to get on the internet and how to fix their PC. When they think they have it clean, I turn them back on, sniff again, and let them know what the deal is. I haven't had one mad person yet. People understand (when I explain it to them) that their machine will infect their friends machines, and so on, and so on, and eventually the network will be clogged. I would never cancel a customers account because they got infected, but I will suspend them for a few days.
Yeah I wouldn't mind if Quebec was its own country. Then I wouldn't have to see instructions in french and english. I also wouldn't have to get 2 copies of every instruction manual that I just toss anyway. We also wouldn't have to have 5 or 6 local french stations that maybe 5 people watch within 200 square km.
What is woman?
an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn - Definition in context
What is sexual intercourse? ... In a wider context, the term "sexual intercourse" may refer to a wider range... The missionary position is one popular position for sexual intercourse... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse
Web definitions for 31337
Leet (most commonly 1337 but often also leetspeak, leetspeek, l33t5p34k, 133t, or l33t) from the phonetic form of the word "elite", is a cipher, or novel form of English spelling. It is characterized by the use of non-alphabetic characters to stand for letters bearing a superficial resemblance, and by a number of spelling changes such as the substitution of "z" for final "s" and "x" for "(c)ks" (or vice versa, such as in the often-humorously intended phrasing of "buttsex" as "buttsecks" or "bu77 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31337 - Definition in context
You realize that you are describing exactly what happens now, don't you? Your just assigning different numbers to daylight. Right now you can get up at 6:00am instead of 10, by 7 you'll be awake. You can enjoy the full day. At 9:00pm (or whatever.. its doesn't matter), the sun will start to go down and you can think about bed (you'll start getting weary now because you've been up since 6:00am). At 10:00pm you can go to sleep for 8 hours until you awake again at 6:00am. How is this any different than what you wrote above? I really don't understand this mindset with time. Time doesn't exist.. your just talking about assigning different numbers to a schedule that you already have. Go ahead and set your clock ahead 5 hours and live by that if you want. Everyone else will be getting up at 6, but you can *say* you got to sleep in until 11:00am and stayed up until 2:00am.
Oh yeah, and to reply to my own post, IPTV is needed because a lot of cable plants can't handle VOD on a massive scale. There is not enough bandwidth due to how your average cable company designs it's cable plant. Moving to a fast, scalable IP network gives them the solution they require.
I'm not sure you understand how this stuff works, or maybe I'm not understanding this article. I view this as IPTV - for cable companies and telcos to deliver TV. This is not for a guy with an internet connection to go to a webserver and download a stream of a video - we do that all the time now. IPTV takes a bunch of channel feeds, encodes them into whatever codec that you want, multicasts it out to the customer and voila, IPTV. Normal TV channels will be multicasted so it is a single stream to each customer, not individual streams. Each channel would be on a different VLAN, and the set-top-box (STB) will switch VLANs every time you change the channel. There are also other technologies to help out multicast groups, such as multicast proxy which makes sure that not ALL of your channels are broadcasting to all your access points. If nobody in a neighbourhood is watching ESPN1-50, the multicast proxy box won't be requesting those channels from the head-end. This will result in less bandwidth throughout the network. The proxies also help from overloading your routers. The proxies take the majority of the multicast requests and only forward a portion of them to the upstream head-end - basically "send me this stream," or "stop sending me this stream." It then dishes that stream out to 50 people if they are requesting it. As for this helping advertisers... I don't know about that. All you see are multicast streams starting and stopping, but I suppose you *could* log that and attach it to a customer DB. Not that I care about any of that anyway;) Oh yeah, and I also don't care if people know what I watch.. why would I?
Soooo, to answer your main point - IPTV is not needed. TV isn't needed either, but right now, IPTV can provide people with customized content and decent VOD services. I work for a telco and am currently on an IPTV commitee to figure out the best solution, and right now IPTV looks cool because we can encode whatever we want and offer it as a channel. Local highschool wants to encode their theatre presentations? We can do that. Do we want to offer a custom weather channel for the small towns around here? We can do that. Do we want to do internet support on TV? We can do that too. There are a whack of things which are possible on IPTV, and they aren't overly expensive either. For me, I want to start a TV show in my parents basement. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Well I guess they better force all the CableTV companies to provide set-top boxes (STBs), and a list of all shows and movies that "aren't safe" for children (anything above a G rating). This way the parents will have a device that can block shows with access codes or just disable the TV show automagically at certain timeslots. While they're at it, the government should provide facemasks for all children walking in public so if a lady with a short skirt or low-cut top walks by, the parents can block their innocent eyes! SEX IS WRONG, AND THINKING ABOUT SEX IS WRONG. Unless all these sites are hate literature or something... I admit it, I didn't RTFA. If the government REALLY cared, they could offer tax refunds on parental control software so people could go out and purchase it themselves. OR, you can just TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW. The internet has a bunch of good and bad things (both those terms are relative to what you believe), and you should take a proactive stance about what your kids are viewing online (if that's your cup of tea). If you don't like it, don't go online. It's the same thing as if you have a satellite and all those (great) movies come on at midnight. Don't let your kids watch if you want them to see something. This is just some bullshit politician (i almost think those words should always be used together) flexing his muscles. It makes a few people happy (the lazy parents), and pisses off a bunch of other people who's rates will go up for Internet access to pay for these lazy parents.
An easy (and cheap) way to overcome this is for the 911 people to give out their local numbers for every calling area. Then Vonage can give this number to each customer in that calling area. They could make it speed dial #1 or they could make phones that support aliases (ie. 911 actually dials a 7 or 10 digit local number). This list could be on their website, so when you move, you can change your alias or speed dial. I don't see the problems with this. I don't buy that they don't want to give out numbers because of pranksters. That's BS, IMO.
OR, people could take initiative and just program their emergency numbers into their phone or put a sticker on the phone.
911 is just an easier way to remember a number. Speed dial #1 is just as easy to remember.
Haha no doubt. People used to stick the police numbers on their phone, or program them into speed dial. Those numbers still exist! Why can't people learn to use them again? Also, I just checked out the website where I saw the "Vonage Brochure With No 911 Access Information". Yes, its a BROSCHURE. It doesn't have every little bit of information about the company on it. It also says at the bottom in BIG LETTERS to phone and talk to a specialist about ALL the Vonage features. I bet they would tell you about 911 if you asked about it. If you didn't then its your fault. It's not like they say that have 911 service identical to landlines in their broschure either, so maybe they could just use that line of reasoning and win. This is simply a case of "Well I bought something without doing any research and product X didn't work the way I thought (read: imagined in my mind with no educated reasoning), so I should sue them or something." I really don't have a soft spot for people who go out and spend money on products that they haven't researched.
is an interface to ARIN, etc so when an IP connects to your mailserver and dumps a whack of spam, the mailserver can automatically query ARIN, get the abuse email address (which should be a requirement for administering IP space), and send the logs/spam to that email address. If someone owns IP space and sells it to someone else (an ISP), THAT person who admins that portion of IP space should have to have an abuse email that can be queried by mail servers on ARIN. This way, everyone who owns IP space will get a shitload of junkmail when their machines get pwned, or if they, themselves decide to get into the spamming business. Also, a requirement should be that the email address for the abuse contact should resolve to an IP that is in the owners possesion (so they can't register an email address at hotmail or something to get around all that junk). If the email address does not function, ARIN can pull their IP space or warn them for not obeying the rules. Just a thought.. an undeveloped spur-of-the-moment thing. What do you guys/gals think?
Mine is also just a squiggle. Its a fairly elaborate squiggle, and I get a lot of weird looks when I sign, but I just laugh and say I'm a doctor. Jokes on them, I'm not a doctor!
I live downtown in a *small* rural community. I can take my 900Mhz cordless to the corner store, the parks, and a couple of restaurants without it dropping calls. Plus, I have bonus of looking like Zack Morris as I stroll around with my big-ass phone.
I want to know if I can run power over ethernet using this new cable. We do Fixed Wireless installations a lot, and right now we have to drill into the house, or find some other sneaky way of getting inside. It would be nice if we could use this stuff for a short hop through a window and then get outdoor-rated cable for the rest of the run.
I work for a telco/ISP in a fairly rural area. The manager here does not have a technical bone in her body. There are only 6 employees, not including her. The 6 of us run the entire telephone and Internet companies ourselves with no help from the boss. She barely knows how to open an attachment in an email and knows even less about how the phone system works (and she's been here for nearly 30 years). I have no idea how she got the job as she only has a 10th grade education and no business training whatsoever. Her day basically consists of this:
1) Come in hours before everyone else 2) Sit around with the phone guys listening to what they have to say before they go out and start their day 3) Go sit on a conference call, but don't say anything - she would sound stupid if she did 4) Stand in her doorway and "oversee" what we are doing. Though I think she is just trying to figure out WHAT we are doing. 5) Wait for any of the girls in the office to say something funny or interesting and then get up and leave her office to catch the last sentence of the funny story - laugh and go back into her office 6) Get "involved" in the company when it requires no help or thought - ie. We need a new stapler and since that is something she understands, she will spend 45 minutes calling around asking about staplers 7) Get "concerned" over stuff that has nothing to do with the company - "you shoes are wet, your making the carpet wet." 8) Laugh off anything that is seriously affecting the company - "ME: one of the core routers is down, I gotta get over there fast" "Her: Oh, hahaha...[walks back into her office]" 9) Try to find something useful to do, but fail 10) Go on company trips to telephone/technology conferences for several days, ring up huge bill for the company to pay, then contribute nothing, nor tell any of us about anything that went on at these conferences 11) Do whatever possible NOT to make a decision (we employees have learned not to make her choose between 2 solutions. We weigh out the pro's and con's and then give her a recommendation to which she always reply's "Ok, I think that make sense," while trying to sound like she has really thought about it). 12) Try to give coaching tips on good work to which we all laugh and ignore 13) Make up stupid rules to make her feel superior - we can't take lunches (outside of the office), we can't go for a cigarette etc. These are all illegal of course, and I do them anyway, with a smile on my face. 14) Take money to the bank for the day but then do grocery / clothes shopping while being paid by the company. Make up some excuse why she was gone so long.
This woman knows nothing about running a company. She is completely in the dark about every facet of what goes on. When she is gone on holidays (like every day isn't a holiday for her), the company runs a lot smoother because we can do all of our work without being interrupted. If she disappeared for 6 months, the company would run smooth as silk, but if one of us was gone, it wouldn't be a smooth ride at all. Sooo, it is possible for an utter moron with no technical ability to run a technology company. It just requires that a competent staff will be there to hold the managers hand each and every day.
This story is by no means an exaggeration. It is much more humorous (read: SAD) in real life.
Slashdot Mirror
In other words the background radiation of the debris area was less than the natural background radiation of natural Uranium rich areas like Western Africa, or in fact many parts of Canada, which have higher radiation levels than the debris area.
That's why we have such killer Weeeed, maan!
heh
Yeah, or the LED PEN, which I have in my hand right now...
You messed that up...
Step 1: Pay major mobo mfg about $1,000,000
Step 2: Wait a long time for it to be built
Step 3: Debt!
Damnit, I don't want DirectX 9 In my XP Pro!
Happy?
ethereal...
I tell customers to either go to a friends house and burn the new software (I give them all the URLs), or I burn them a custom CD and have them come into the office to pick it up. I don't charge them for the CD, and I use it to distribute Firefox/Thunderbird/Spybot,Stinger, etc, etc, etc. Eventually I will set the network up so I can just redirect users to a webserver with all the needed tools on it.
I sniff our network and suspend them (drop their DSL link), if they are sending out a whack of spam or viruses. I call their house and leave a message explaining why they won't be able to get on the internet and how to fix their PC. When they think they have it clean, I turn them back on, sniff again, and let them know what the deal is. I haven't had one mad person yet. People understand (when I explain it to them) that their machine will infect their friends machines, and so on, and so on, and eventually the network will be clogged. I would never cancel a customers account because they got infected, but I will suspend them for a few days.
Yeah I wouldn't mind if Quebec was its own country. Then I wouldn't have to see instructions in french and english. I also wouldn't have to get 2 copies of every instruction manual that I just toss anyway. We also wouldn't have to have 5 or 6 local french stations that maybe 5 people watch within 200 square km.
What is woman?
... In a wider context, the term "sexual intercourse" may refer to a wider range ... The missionary position is one popular position for sexual intercourse ...
an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn - Definition in context
What is sexual intercourse?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse
Web definitions for 31337
Leet (most commonly 1337 but often also leetspeak, leetspeek, l33t5p34k, 133t, or l33t) from the phonetic form of the word "elite", is a cipher, or novel form of English spelling. It is characterized by the use of non-alphabetic characters to stand for letters bearing a superficial resemblance, and by a number of spelling changes such as the substitution of "z" for final "s" and "x" for "(c)ks" (or vice versa, such as in the often-humorously intended phrasing of "buttsex" as "buttsecks" or "bu77
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31337 - Definition in context
Yeah welcome to Canada. Go to work in the dark - in the office all day while its cold and grey outside - back home in the dark. For like 5 months!
You realize that you are describing exactly what happens now, don't you? Your just assigning different numbers to daylight. Right now you can get up at 6:00am instead of 10, by 7 you'll be awake. You can enjoy the full day. At 9:00pm (or whatever.. its doesn't matter), the sun will start to go down and you can think about bed (you'll start getting weary now because you've been up since 6:00am). At 10:00pm you can go to sleep for 8 hours until you awake again at 6:00am. How is this any different than what you wrote above? I really don't understand this mindset with time. Time doesn't exist.. your just talking about assigning different numbers to a schedule that you already have. Go ahead and set your clock ahead 5 hours and live by that if you want. Everyone else will be getting up at 6, but you can *say* you got to sleep in until 11:00am and stayed up until 2:00am.
Oh yeah, and to reply to my own post, IPTV is needed because a lot of cable plants can't handle VOD on a massive scale. There is not enough bandwidth due to how your average cable company designs it's cable plant. Moving to a fast, scalable IP network gives them the solution they require.
I'm not sure you understand how this stuff works, or maybe I'm not understanding this article. I view this as IPTV - for cable companies and telcos to deliver TV. This is not for a guy with an internet connection to go to a webserver and download a stream of a video - we do that all the time now. IPTV takes a bunch of channel feeds, encodes them into whatever codec that you want, multicasts it out to the customer and voila, IPTV. Normal TV channels will be multicasted so it is a single stream to each customer, not individual streams. Each channel would be on a different VLAN, and the set-top-box (STB) will switch VLANs every time you change the channel. There are also other technologies to help out multicast groups, such as multicast proxy which makes sure that not ALL of your channels are broadcasting to all your access points. If nobody in a neighbourhood is watching ESPN1-50, the multicast proxy box won't be requesting those channels from the head-end. This will result in less bandwidth throughout the network. The proxies also help from overloading your routers. The proxies take the majority of the multicast requests and only forward a portion of them to the upstream head-end - basically "send me this stream," or "stop sending me this stream." It then dishes that stream out to 50 people if they are requesting it. As for this helping advertisers... I don't know about that. All you see are multicast streams starting and stopping, but I suppose you *could* log that and attach it to a customer DB. Not that I care about any of that anyway ;) Oh yeah, and I also don't care if people know what I watch.. why would I?
Soooo, to answer your main point - IPTV is not needed. TV isn't needed either, but right now, IPTV can provide people with customized content and decent VOD services. I work for a telco and am currently on an IPTV commitee to figure out the best solution, and right now IPTV looks cool because we can encode whatever we want and offer it as a channel. Local highschool wants to encode their theatre presentations? We can do that. Do we want to offer a custom weather channel for the small towns around here? We can do that. Do we want to do internet support on TV? We can do that too. There are a whack of things which are possible on IPTV, and they aren't overly expensive either. For me, I want to start a TV show in my parents basement. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Well I guess they better force all the CableTV companies to provide set-top boxes (STBs), and a list of all shows and movies that "aren't safe" for children (anything above a G rating). This way the parents will have a device that can block shows with access codes or just disable the TV show automagically at certain timeslots. While they're at it, the government should provide facemasks for all children walking in public so if a lady with a short skirt or low-cut top walks by, the parents can block their innocent eyes! SEX IS WRONG, AND THINKING ABOUT SEX IS WRONG. Unless all these sites are hate literature or something... I admit it, I didn't RTFA. If the government REALLY cared, they could offer tax refunds on parental control software so people could go out and purchase it themselves. OR, you can just TELL PEOPLE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW. The internet has a bunch of good and bad things (both those terms are relative to what you believe), and you should take a proactive stance about what your kids are viewing online (if that's your cup of tea). If you don't like it, don't go online. It's the same thing as if you have a satellite and all those (great) movies come on at midnight. Don't let your kids watch if you want them to see something. This is just some bullshit politician (i almost think those words should always be used together) flexing his muscles. It makes a few people happy (the lazy parents), and pisses off a bunch of other people who's rates will go up for Internet access to pay for these lazy parents.
An easy (and cheap) way to overcome this is for the 911 people to give out their local numbers for every calling area. Then Vonage can give this number to each customer in that calling area. They could make it speed dial #1 or they could make phones that support aliases (ie. 911 actually dials a 7 or 10 digit local number). This list could be on their website, so when you move, you can change your alias or speed dial. I don't see the problems with this. I don't buy that they don't want to give out numbers because of pranksters. That's BS, IMO.
OR, people could take initiative and just program their emergency numbers into their phone or put a sticker on the phone.
911 is just an easier way to remember a number. Speed dial #1 is just as easy to remember.
Haha no doubt. People used to stick the police numbers on their phone, or program them into speed dial. Those numbers still exist! Why can't people learn to use them again? Also, I just checked out the website where I saw the "Vonage Brochure With No 911 Access Information". Yes, its a BROSCHURE. It doesn't have every little bit of information about the company on it. It also says at the bottom in BIG LETTERS to phone and talk to a specialist about ALL the Vonage features. I bet they would tell you about 911 if you asked about it. If you didn't then its your fault. It's not like they say that have 911 service identical to landlines in their broschure either, so maybe they could just use that line of reasoning and win. This is simply a case of "Well I bought something without doing any research and product X didn't work the way I thought (read: imagined in my mind with no educated reasoning), so I should sue them or something." I really don't have a soft spot for people who go out and spend money on products that they haven't researched.
I think Hasbro Poland has been smokin too much weeeed. (ahem... Cronix).
is an interface to ARIN, etc so when an IP connects to your mailserver and dumps a whack of spam, the mailserver can automatically query ARIN, get the abuse email address (which should be a requirement for administering IP space), and send the logs/spam to that email address. If someone owns IP space and sells it to someone else (an ISP), THAT person who admins that portion of IP space should have to have an abuse email that can be queried by mail servers on ARIN. This way, everyone who owns IP space will get a shitload of junkmail when their machines get pwned, or if they, themselves decide to get into the spamming business. Also, a requirement should be that the email address for the abuse contact should resolve to an IP that is in the owners possesion (so they can't register an email address at hotmail or something to get around all that junk). If the email address does not function, ARIN can pull their IP space or warn them for not obeying the rules. Just a thought.. an undeveloped spur-of-the-moment thing. What do you guys/gals think?
Oh, we don't have any of them there stop lights ;)
Mine is also just a squiggle. Its a fairly elaborate squiggle, and I get a lot of weird looks when I sign, but I just laugh and say I'm a doctor. Jokes on them, I'm not a doctor!
I live downtown in a *small* rural community. I can take my 900Mhz cordless to the corner store, the parks, and a couple of restaurants without it dropping calls. Plus, I have bonus of looking like Zack Morris as I stroll around with my big-ass phone.
The "somebody with the answer" is in the article so go read it.
I want to know if I can run power over ethernet using this new cable. We do Fixed Wireless installations a lot, and right now we have to drill into the house, or find some other sneaky way of getting inside. It would be nice if we could use this stuff for a short hop through a window and then get outdoor-rated cable for the rest of the run.
I work for a telco/ISP in a fairly rural area. The manager here does not have a technical bone in her body. There are only 6 employees, not including her. The 6 of us run the entire telephone and Internet companies ourselves with no help from the boss. She barely knows how to open an attachment in an email and knows even less about how the phone system works (and she's been here for nearly 30 years). I have no idea how she got the job as she only has a 10th grade education and no business training whatsoever. Her day basically consists of this:
1) Come in hours before everyone else
2) Sit around with the phone guys listening to what they have to say before they go out and start their day
3) Go sit on a conference call, but don't say anything - she would sound stupid if she did
4) Stand in her doorway and "oversee" what we are doing. Though I think she is just trying to figure out WHAT we are doing.
5) Wait for any of the girls in the office to say something funny or interesting and then get up and leave her office to catch the last sentence of the funny story - laugh and go back into her office
6) Get "involved" in the company when it requires no help or thought - ie. We need a new stapler and since that is something she understands, she will spend 45 minutes calling around asking about staplers
7) Get "concerned" over stuff that has nothing to do with the company - "you shoes are wet, your making the carpet wet."
8) Laugh off anything that is seriously affecting the company - "ME: one of the core routers is down, I gotta get over there fast" "Her: Oh, hahaha...[walks back into her office]"
9) Try to find something useful to do, but fail
10) Go on company trips to telephone/technology conferences for several days, ring up huge bill for the company to pay, then contribute nothing, nor tell any of us about anything that went on at these conferences
11) Do whatever possible NOT to make a decision (we employees have learned not to make her choose between 2 solutions. We weigh out the pro's and con's and then give her a recommendation to which she always reply's "Ok, I think that make sense," while trying to sound like she has really thought about it).
12) Try to give coaching tips on good work to which we all laugh and ignore
13) Make up stupid rules to make her feel superior - we can't take lunches (outside of the office), we can't go for a cigarette etc. These are all illegal of course, and I do them anyway, with a smile on my face.
14) Take money to the bank for the day but then do grocery / clothes shopping while being paid by the company. Make up some excuse why she was gone so long.
This woman knows nothing about running a company. She is completely in the dark about every facet of what goes on. When she is gone on holidays (like every day isn't a holiday for her), the company runs a lot smoother because we can do all of our work without being interrupted. If she disappeared for 6 months, the company would run smooth as silk, but if one of us was gone, it wouldn't be a smooth ride at all. Sooo, it is possible for an utter moron with no technical ability to run a technology company. It just requires that a competent staff will be there to hold the managers hand each and every day.
This story is by no means an exaggeration. It is much more humorous (read: SAD) in real life.