I aggree to some extent with what you said about actions being important. But ususually no one gets tested for BAC unless they have probable cause.
If I was on a jurry and they had BAC tests done on everyone leaving a bar or just stopped everyone going by a checkpoint I would probably nullify the verdict
The solution here is very simple but does not fit with there plans.
Best Buy "tech" shows up with external USB extermal drive case. Backs up the drive. reinstslls. done. no real skill needed.
Problem: this costs real time. It also has some risks that the users disk is bad. If I do this for a customer and the disk is bad I don't charge for the backup. also you are less likely to pay for a new computer. This should be carry in service if possible.
Users do not want to pay for 2 hours of tech time just because they did not backup. (by the time all is said and done it is 2 hours got to drive the funny car...)
I will use the performance and reliability tool. When the user tells me it got slow or started to crash. I can look here and see when it really started to crash. It also logs software installs in the same framework.
So the crashes that have been happening for a "couple of weeks" and the software that was installed only a "few days ago" can be tied together.
I ask users "does your computer always take this long to boot?" and the respond "I dont know, I just power it up and then get coffee".
yes, many/most users will not be helped by this, but we who help them will be if I understand the tool
We may actually be doing the experiment and not looking at the results.
The article states that if an immune mouse gives white blood cells to a mouse with cancer the second mouse gets better.
If we assume the same mutation exists in humans, we just need to do a statistical analysis of humans who have had spontaneous permanent cancer remissions after receiving a blood donation.
A few more tests and we could cure a lot of cancer.
This is very important. Most people how have not taken a class on answering the phone do it wrong.
Try the following. Using a standard older type phone (with aseparate headset), have a buddy dial random numbers out of the yellow pages. Don't let him tell you what he calls. Just listen to the responce when the phone is answered and try to guess who was called. You will likely only be able to guess 10-205 of the time.
People start to speak before the phome is near thier mouth.
After taking a 1/2 day class years ago, People are shocked when I answer the phone because they think I am a machine at first.
Pick up the phone, take a breath and then speak. These questions will go away.
You have assumed that the reader and what I will call the activator are the same device.
The activator works by creating a variable magnetic field in a general area. The RFID tag converts this to energy and rebroad casts it in a pattern that the reader picks up.
All that is needed to snoop is to have a reciver near where someone ELSE has set up a normal reader.
Could I point a parabolic antenna at the enterance to a retail stote and read every tag that gets energized by the doorway arch?
The RFID tag should only respond to an energy pulse that is coded. otherwise what prevents me from setting up land mines (or IEDs) that detonate when a passport walks by?
remember they lived in a time when life was shorter and more "americans" were being deprived. The taxes (and trade controls) they rebelled against were there to raise money to pay for "the protection provided by the government of king George"
MIght be a good way to attack hidden EULAs. In theory, the legality of EULA's should be clear. "I did not see this agreement first, so it is not a binding contract"
However, look at the 2600 case where it was ruled you could not link to something as news. If it had been CNN, do you really think the ruling would have gone that way?
What you need to really have a good chance of breaking EULAs is something dumb like this.
IANAL
(BTW: shouldn't the acronym be something like " I try not to be anal like I would need to be if I were a lawyer"?)
I think there is a point here. The big nuke method is usually discounted because we would in theory still have all of the particles hit the earth.
With the miles wide planet killers and short notice this makes sense as atmosheric heating would cook us. But look at what they are talking about here. small object long advacne notice (probably 30 yeara realisitcaly required)
If you nuke something 20 years out, and it broke up into dust, most of it would miss the earth. If it merged back together, The leftovers would be moving on a different path. We could easily nuke somthing the size of a couple of football fields
Or, as this object is very small. Just use net around it.
Ok, this whole argument is getting very dumb. If everything is based only on random events, what possible meaning can the word "for" in the above quote have? I am shocked that this type of mistake would come out of Darwin's pen.
There are examples of accedental features of one creature being used by another creature for the whole advantage of the second creature. But this is not an argument against evolution. It should be required by the process. Only if it can be shown that the structure took generations to develop. These things are normally short lived.
If you drop me on an island I will find things to use that were not put there "for" the bennifit of man.
The Parachutes and areo braking landing systems would be a failure though! Also I think the moon is a much rougher surface to drive around on no dust storms to fill cracks...
That said, we could drive them remotely as the time delay is minor. I would like to see a couple of modified missions like this.
There were other failure modes as well. (dust and batteries were to be the methods of failure that would kill them for sure in a fixed length of time)
1) dust 2) batteries not maintaining a charge 3) Cold cracking circuit boards/frezing batteries at night 4) not enough power in the mars winter to keep from waking in safe mode each morning 5) accedents (getting stuck) 6) Some other mechanical failure 7) landing somewhere trapped or unable to get off the pad.
This is what I recall from reading articles about the project early on. I hoped they would get to mars. Move around some. get stuck/figure out they were trapped. Continue to send data back like the Lunar probes and eventually earth would stop listening.
Needless to say this is much better than I had hoped. But I am confident that they will both die/get stuck unexpectedly over time. When things NASA makes do not die when expected, they do tend to last for years. I would not be too shocked if one of these rovers was used to help monitor weather conditions in a limited way for the next 20 years.
I think what they are trying to say is that the new light bulb will be something like this:
Single freqeuncy LED light (high effiency but ugly/annoying color) will be used to generate the initial light. This will hit a thin film of dots which will reradiate the light as white light that makes humans happy.
Saves costs as you only need one LED and multiple LEDs do not really match sunlight anyway.
Of course the article claims no heat is produced!:-)
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No, this is a bad idea.
There are lots of ways to sneek past this. For instance you can browse the web using the help function in windows and many other places.
You would have to prove you caught them all
Some states (like Arizona) have laws that limit parental liability if they did not encourage and could not reasonably prevent the crime
IANAL
I had a situation where we needed to rent 12 computers. They were all Dells with real MS OEM stickers on them
The computers showed up and we powered them up and attempted to update them and install the latest office versions on them.
Because the rental company had imaged them all from a single copy of windows they failed WGA.
We had some fun.
I haxe been worried about this since XP came out.
If I have a pc that runs Win 3.11 I can reinstall it at any time if I have the original media.
If a few years from now I want to reinstall XP what if the activation server is turned off?
I no longer have a valid copy. It will run only 30 days. A wonderfull way to force an upgrade to vista 2011.
I aggree to some extent with what you said about actions being important. But ususually no one gets tested for BAC unless they have probable cause.
If I was on a jurry and they had BAC tests done on everyone leaving a bar or just stopped everyone going by a checkpoint I would probably nullify the verdict
The solution here is very simple but does not fit with there plans.
Best Buy "tech" shows up with external USB extermal drive case. Backs up the drive. reinstslls. done. no real skill needed.
Problem: this costs real time. It also has some risks that the users disk is bad. If I do this for a customer and the disk is bad I don't charge for the backup. also you are less likely to pay for a new computer. This should be carry in service if possible.
Users do not want to pay for 2 hours of tech time just because they did not backup. (by the time all is said and done it is 2 hours got to drive the funny car...)
My favorite is the guys who wander through a grocery store talking to the wife asking her loudly on the phone "where is the bread?".
The wife is at home and is trying to tell hubby how to find the bread with out knowing where he is in the store.
This creates a new underclass. These people are basically toast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerism
(some people don't always DNA match themselves!)
Also anyone who has a typo in the database in also history.
In the movie Gattaca, When they tested the genes of the hero, he showed up as "INVALID" not just his name.
I will use the performance and reliability tool. When the user tells me it got slow or started to crash. I can look here and see when it really started to crash. It also logs software installs in the same framework.
So the crashes that have been happening for a "couple of weeks" and the software that was installed only a "few days ago" can be tied together.
I ask users "does your computer always take this long to boot?" and the respond "I dont know, I just power it up and then get coffee".
yes, many/most users will not be helped by this, but we who help them will be if I understand the tool
We may actually be doing the experiment and not looking at the results.
The article states that if an immune mouse gives white blood cells to a mouse with cancer the second mouse gets better.
If we assume the same mutation exists in humans, we just need to do a statistical analysis of humans who have had spontaneous permanent cancer remissions after receiving a blood donation.
A few more tests and we could cure a lot of cancer.
True command line folks don't download MP3's
;)
They download the sheet music!
Sorry could not resist
This is very important. Most people how have not taken a class on answering the phone do it wrong.
Try the following. Using a standard older type phone (with aseparate headset), have a buddy dial random numbers out of the yellow pages. Don't let him tell you what he calls. Just listen to the responce when the phone is answered and try to guess who was called. You will likely only be able to guess 10-205 of the time.
People start to speak before the phome is near thier mouth.
After taking a 1/2 day class years ago, People are shocked when I answer the phone because they think I am a machine at first.
Pick up the phone, take a breath and then speak. These questions will go away.
You have assumed that the reader and what I will call the activator are the same device.
The activator works by creating a variable magnetic field in a general area. The RFID tag converts this to energy and rebroad casts it in a pattern that the reader picks up.
All that is needed to snoop is to have a reciver near where someone ELSE has set up a normal reader.
Could I point a parabolic antenna at the enterance to a retail stote and read every tag that gets energized by the doorway arch?
The RFID tag should only respond to an energy pulse that is coded. otherwise what prevents me from setting up land mines (or IEDs) that detonate when a passport walks by?
Step 1. Ask for search data without names (no problem right?)
...
... Profit
Step 2. "notice" 4321 searches each day for something like "naked baby sex"
Step 3. Subpoena for the IP addresses
Step 4. Issue press releases "to protect the children..."
Step 5. Gradually notice more stuff like "cross urine" and "homosexual marrage"
Step N. Women burned for not wearing hats in church.
Ok, I can't resist
Ask for general search terms. then they see that there are 2345 searches a "naked baby sex" or whatever.
They then have probable cause and can subpoena these search records for these searches and ask for indentifying info and take the second dip to trial
If you live somewhere that uses a voting method that is not auditable, protest by sending in absentee ballots.
They are paper. They can be audited and they will more than offset the "cost savings" of having the electronic balloting.
Yes, the ones at the grocery stores. The lights are always on in there. :)
remember they lived in a time when life was shorter and more "americans" were being deprived. The taxes (and trade controls) they rebelled against were there to raise money to pay for "the protection provided by the government of king George"
MIght be a good way to attack hidden EULAs. In theory, the legality of EULA's should be clear. "I did not see this agreement first, so it is not a binding contract"
However, look at the 2600 case where it was ruled you could not link to something as news. If it had been CNN, do you really think the ruling would have gone that way?
What you need to really have a good chance of breaking EULAs is something dumb like this.
IANAL
(BTW: shouldn't the acronym be something like " I try not to be anal like I would need to be if I were a lawyer"?)
I think there is a point here. The big nuke method is usually discounted because we would in theory still have all of the particles hit the earth.
With the miles wide planet killers and short notice this makes sense as atmosheric heating would cook us. But look at what they are talking about here. small object long advacne notice (probably 30 yeara realisitcaly required)
If you nuke something 20 years out, and it broke up into dust, most of it would miss the earth. If it merged back together, The leftovers would be moving on a different path. We could easily nuke somthing the size of a couple of football fields
Or, as this object is very small. Just use net around it.
Ok, this whole argument is getting very dumb. If everything is based only on random events, what possible meaning can the word "for" in the above quote have? I am shocked that this type of mistake would come out of Darwin's pen.
There are examples of accedental features of one creature being used by another creature for the whole advantage of the second creature. But this is not an argument against evolution. It should be required by the process. Only if it can be shown that the structure took generations to develop. These things are normally short lived.
If you drop me on an island I will find things to use that were not put there "for" the bennifit of man.
The Parachutes and areo braking landing systems would be a failure though! Also I think the moon is a much rougher surface to drive around on no dust storms to fill cracks...
That said, we could drive them remotely as the time delay is minor. I would like to see a couple of modified missions like this.
There were other failure modes as well. (dust and batteries were to be the methods of failure that would kill them for sure in a fixed length of time)
1) dust
2) batteries not maintaining a charge
3) Cold cracking circuit boards/frezing batteries at night
4) not enough power in the mars winter to keep from waking in safe mode each morning
5) accedents (getting stuck)
6) Some other mechanical failure
7) landing somewhere trapped or unable to get off the pad.
This is what I recall from reading articles about the project early on. I hoped they would get to mars. Move around some. get stuck/figure out they were trapped. Continue to send data back like the Lunar probes and eventually earth would stop listening.
Needless to say this is much better than I had hoped. But I am confident that they will both die/get stuck unexpectedly over time. When things NASA makes do not die when expected, they do tend to last for years. I would not be too shocked if one of these rovers was used to help monitor weather conditions in a limited way for the next 20 years.
I think what they are trying to say is that the new light bulb will be something like this:
:-)
Single freqeuncy LED light (high effiency but ugly/annoying color) will be used to generate the initial light. This will hit a thin film of dots which will reradiate the light as white light that makes humans happy.
Saves costs as you only need one LED and multiple LEDs do not really match sunlight anyway.
Of course the article claims no heat is produced!
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