Well you have got a little bit of Americium in your house or place of work right now. Every smoke detector has some of the radioisotope in it.
No. Some smoke detectors use a photoelectric sensor to detect the change in light level caused by smoke. See, for example, Smoke Detectors and Americium.
I've got a Xircom SpringPort Wireless Ethernet module (SWE1100) and a Handspring Visor Platinum talking to a Cisco Aironet 340 access point with 128-bit WEP.
Network hotsync is slow, but adequate.
PalmVNC and Top Gun ssh both work, but they're not usable enough to be more than curiosities on that tiny screen. The only browser I've found that works at all is the one that comes with
AvantGo's mobile Internet service. I've never managed to get a static IP address to work, but that's a minor problem; the DHCP client works fine. More serious: the MultiMail email client built into the 802.11b module won't talk to a recent UW IMAP server; it doesn't grok the server's CAPABILITY response.
It occurs to me that in addition to boycotting Amazon.com, you can send them a more immediate message by disabling 1-Click ordering in your Amazon.com account.
To turn off 1-Click ordering, go to Amazon.com's web site, click on the "Your Account" button, then click on "Access or change your 1-Click settings", then click on the "Turn off 1-Click ordering" button. If the button says "Turn on 1-Click ordering", just leave it that way.
My fellow rabid libertarians would do well to consider the following.
Whenever you hear a (U.S.) politician ranting about getting people off welfare, he, she, or it will almost always say something like, "Every able-bodied person should get up off the couch and get a job." The qualifier is there because people with disabilities are the last "disadvantaged" group in this country that most people still think it proper to support with their tax dollars. I've often wondered why this is the case, and the best answer I can come up with is that most people understand that everyone is one car accident or serious illness away from joining the ranks of the disabled.
Now consider that the vast majority (I've heard figures as high as 80%) of people with disabilities want to work but aren't able to do so, for reasons that typically boil down to lack of accommodation. So instead they sit at home collecting Medicaid, etc., when they could be earning a wage and paying taxes instead.
So forget all the arguments about justice and taking care of each other. Just remember that in the long run, it's much less expensive to provide the reasonable accommodations that give people their independence than it is to support them in dependency forever. Also remember that you too are one illness or accident away from looking at the world from a whole 'nother perspective.
And if you believe that the ability to make use of the net is crucial to life in the modern world, including being able to get and keep a job, then go add those ALT tags.
I see that RealNetworks's privacy statement has a TRUSTe seal at the bottom. Think TRUSTe will now sanction RealNetworks for failing to fully disclose what information they collect from their users?
People have even gone so far as to implant digital tracking devices in dogs and cats - and extrapolate use of them on children!
People have been tattooing their SSN or other identification number on valuable animals for years. More recently, chips embedded in the skin at the back of the neck have begun to replace tattooing.
The chip's ID number is read with a hand-held scanner held near the animal's neck. Most animal shelters and many veterinarians have the scanners. The hope is that the technology will help return more lost animals to their rightful owners. It's hard to argue that this is a bad idea.
Implanting these chips in children is a whole 'nother thing....
OK, I can sorta believe that they could give the PSA an internal (or accessible via wireless) 3D static map of its environment. I can even imagine some sort of proximity sensor so it doesn't try to fly through an object (such as an astronaut) that happens at that moment to be between it and wherever it wants to go. But I have trouble believing it will be able to do instantaneous collision avoidance with another moving body (such as an astronaut) attempting to pass through the same space at the same time.
Just how quickly will one of these things be able to stop? And how much will it hurt if it doesn't? (Gravity might be nil, but mass is still mass.)
8/10/99 Please note, should the Red Hat IPO price above or below the original filing range of $10-12/share, E*TRADE customers will be required to submit a NEW Conditional Offer for shares. This offering has not yet been priced or declared effective. In the event that this happens, E*TRADE will update the IPO Bulletin and send an account alert to Customers who previously placed conditional Offers in this IPO.
Then just now, this appeared:
8/11/99 E*TRADE is now accepting new Conditional Offers in the Red Hat IPO. This issue has been priced at $14 and has been declared effective.
That's followed by a link to the Red Hat directed shares page. You have to fill out a new qualification questionnaire (previous answers are provided as defaults) and a new conditional offer. Entering a limit offer less than $14/share is probably not a good idea.:-)
Can anyone explain why E*TRADE is requiring new conditional offers?
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Four billion of which are Twitter spam bots.
Can transparent aluminum be far behind?
Network hotsync is slow, but adequate. PalmVNC and Top Gun ssh both work, but they're not usable enough to be more than curiosities on that tiny screen. The only browser I've found that works at all is the one that comes with AvantGo's mobile Internet service. I've never managed to get a static IP address to work, but that's a minor problem; the DHCP client works fine. More serious: the MultiMail email client built into the 802.11b module won't talk to a recent UW IMAP server; it doesn't grok the server's CAPABILITY response.
Note the Business Wire logo on that Yahoo page. As far as I can tell, The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP simply paid Business Wire to distribute their press release, and Yahoo put it up on their site automatically, as they do many BW press releases.
There's no conspiracy here. Move along, move along.
-- R.
It occurs to me that in addition to boycotting Amazon.com, you can send them a more immediate message by disabling 1-Click ordering in your Amazon.com account.
To turn off 1-Click ordering, go to Amazon.com's web site, click on the "Your Account" button, then click on "Access or change your 1-Click settings", then click on the "Turn off 1-Click ordering" button. If the button says "Turn on 1-Click ordering", just leave it that way.
I just did this. It felt good. :-)
--Roger
Microsoft is promising a hotfix.
Whenever you hear a (U.S.) politician ranting about getting people off welfare, he, she, or it will almost always say something like, "Every able-bodied person should get up off the couch and get a job." The qualifier is there because people with disabilities are the last "disadvantaged" group in this country that most people still think it proper to support with their tax dollars. I've often wondered why this is the case, and the best answer I can come up with is that most people understand that everyone is one car accident or serious illness away from joining the ranks of the disabled.
Now consider that the vast majority (I've heard figures as high as 80%) of people with disabilities want to work but aren't able to do so, for reasons that typically boil down to lack of accommodation. So instead they sit at home collecting Medicaid, etc., when they could be earning a wage and paying taxes instead.
So forget all the arguments about justice and taking care of each other. Just remember that in the long run, it's much less expensive to provide the reasonable accommodations that give people their independence than it is to support them in dependency forever. Also remember that you too are one illness or accident away from looking at the world from a whole 'nother perspective.
And if you believe that the ability to make use of the net is crucial to life in the modern world, including being able to get and keep a job, then go add those ALT tags.
Me neither.
-- R.
People have been tattooing their SSN or other identification number on valuable animals for years. More recently, chips embedded in the skin at the back of the neck have begun to replace tattooing.
The chip's ID number is read with a hand-held scanner held near the animal's neck. Most animal shelters and many veterinarians have the scanners. The hope is that the technology will help return more lost animals to their rightful owners. It's hard to argue that this is a bad idea.
Implanting these chips in children is a whole 'nother thing....
OK, I can sorta believe that they could give the PSA an internal (or accessible via wireless) 3D static map of its environment. I can even imagine some sort of proximity sensor so it doesn't try to fly through an object (such as an astronaut) that happens at that moment to be between it and wherever it wants to go. But I have trouble believing it will be able to do instantaneous collision avoidance with another moving body (such as an astronaut) attempting to pass through the same space at the same time.
Just how quickly will one of these things be able to stop? And how much will it hurt if it doesn't? (Gravity might be nil, but mass is still mass.)
-- R.
I'm certain of what they told me. I'm also (almost) certain at this point that what they told me was wrong. Oh, well.
-- R.
8/10/99 Please note, should the Red Hat IPO price above or below the original filing range of $10-12/share, E*TRADE customers will be required to submit a NEW Conditional Offer for shares. This offering has not yet been priced or declared effective. In the event that this happens, E*TRADE will update the IPO Bulletin and send an account alert to Customers who previously placed conditional Offers in this IPO.
Then just now, this appeared:
8/11/99 E*TRADE is now accepting new Conditional Offers in the Red Hat IPO. This issue has been priced at $14 and has been declared effective.
That's followed by a link to the Red Hat directed shares page. You have to fill out a new qualification questionnaire (previous answers are provided as defaults) and a new conditional offer. Entering a limit offer less than $14/share is probably not a good idea. :-)
Can anyone explain why E*TRADE is requiring new conditional offers?
-- R.
I just called E*TRADE's Red Hat IPO number and was told I'd been allocated my entire request--200 shares at offering price.
I'm thinking (hoping!) that the increase in the offering price range is due to high demand.
-- R.