You have the same issue with normal blocking methods unless you faraday cage the windows too.
A more likely situation is that a few years down the road a company grows and needs more space . The leasing agency who owns the building (re)moves a non-load bearing wall and rents them some more space from the unit next door. No one remembered that the company had this paint on and now you have an open wall. Could even happen with the traditional methods.
I'm even willing to speculate that because the other 3 walls are coated in it that it may offer a *slight* directional effect.
IMHO it depends on price. For an organization who has moderate security concerns and understands that caging their wireless signals will help (to varyng extents) and that the EM paint is a more cost effective helper than a full metal cage.
It is "east German" not "East German". The only ones who make a distinction are the dinosaurs and the communists who can't catch up with the rest of the world. I lived and worked in Dresden and the only ones left who complain about the seperation are 30 and 40 somethings who couldn't adapt and learn how to earn a job instead of being given a job. Anyone older than that learned how to cope during the war and adapted again.
Its roughly equivalent to Der Spiegel citing "Herr Taco in der Wild West Staat von California..." or "Doktor Merkwerdichliebe von der Confederate Staat Alabama...".
My bias showed, and someone caught it and sevewral people spoke up. Thats exactly how I would like it to work, unfortunately in the mass media there is no time/space for a proper rebuttal or critique.
One of the basics of journalism is understanding that as a journalist you can't elminate your bias. What you can do is try to minimize your bias and in cases of opinion and analysis declare your bias as well as the bias of your sources. The Reg said it best in this case, "A better policy might insist that the Times disclose the ties between an analyst and a vendor, leaving the reader to make the credibility judgement." . So if I see a Microsoft enginner quoted I'm told he is an MS engie and when I see TurdFurgeson quoted I'm told he's Linux zealot.
Thats really the best the NYT can do as a responsible organization, if you eliminate all bias you remove your writers humanity and create a lie. While removing bias your own mind will fool itself and think you've removed them when really you've magnified them. Biases are what lead to needed critiques, so long as those biases are dealt with openly and honestly we should be ok.
*Note I'm not a journalist, but the points here have been beaten into my head by several close journalist friends. The bias question was also material for an elective journalism course for me at college.* - There see. I declared my bias. I like and trust most journalists because I know some good ones. I've also pointed out that I lack formal training in the area, so I might know enough to contribute but I shouldn't be quoted as an expert source.
Give them a rather nasty technical question, even something that is beyond your experience or is totally made up (SQL Server on Slackware 4). Instead of asking them for an answer ask what steps they would take to find the answer. An entry level anything is going to have to learn a lot on the job.
Entry level implies that you want someone who can grow, so try and find out where they started and how they got there. Should show you a little about their learning style and curve.
The rookies will also run into situations that they haven't been trained for. You need to see if they can step through it and get a partial solution before going up a level and that in the interest of customer service they can recognize when they're getting in too deep and need some help.
No people like me understand the realities of the situation. I use more pleasant language, but I have both shot down and supported open source projects on the job. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. Everyone has promised total solutions over the years using a given OS, source philosophy, or magic software. No one of them is a solution.
Part of my ire comes from the jerkwad parent poster who couldn't even read the executive summary paragraph. Still though, I don't have a choice for what works, I have a choice for what takes less of time time and breaks less.
Would you like me to wipe your ass and do your homework too?
"Xandros is a distribution based on Debian that is meant for home users and small businesses that use older versions of Windows (98, ME, 2000) while letting those users utilize all of their saved information from Microsoft Office by using CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office, which seamlessly installs and runs a variety of Windows' programs. Xandros is specifically designed for people who have only known and used Windows and offers solitude from viruses, et al. as well as freedom since Xandros is on the Linux platform."
Pretty much it does everything else Linux will do. Offer different annoyances from the other OSs. Windows annoys me off and on throughout the week, upgrades that break things, security holes, DRM, nagging popup warnings (YES YOU CUNT! If I'm using RDP then I either goddamn well know what I'm doing or I'm just a dumb luser following directions, don't make me click thru another warning.). Linux offers me the chance to take a week to find the program that does what I want, in 2006 you don't write your own Linux software because no one else has, you do it because theres so goddamned much of it you can't find what you need and the elistist 'experts' won't throw you bone and help you get on with your computing efforts. The Mac OS offers me the chance to be prick to the general public (much like I'm doing now) almost every day. I can make all sorts of pretty movies and "things just work" oh except when you have to install something like say a database so you can do your work when, OH BOY, you get to drop into Linux shell again.
At least when there was DOS you didn't have the illusion of unlimited options. By the time you installed any decent software you had already sat there for hours swapping floppies (it sounded dirty and we liked it that way) and after you invested that time and money well by god you were going to use that piece of software no matter what.
Perhaps not your rights online, but it is affecting your rights.
1. The FCC is involved. This is an agency that has some questionable pracitices and policies. Its primary purpose is to regulate the airwaves on the interest and behalf of the public. In this case the FCC can make or break a decision to give the public more choice in how it recieves its news and entertainment. This is a matter of your money (if you buy ANYTHING from the US or anything carring an FCC cert you have in some way paid taxes some of which went to the FCC) being used to control your airwaves and your choice for content delivered on those frequencies.
2. Current media oligolopy. The traditional broadcasters (ie ClearChannel) are trying to maintain their hold over the radio market. I expect this kind of behavior from such agencies but NPR, though a private organization, has traditionally worked hard for the public. I suspect that NPR is invovled here because NPR isn't being broadcast on XM/Sirius because they can't pay or won't make enough revenue for the satellite providers. I personally find that not broadcasting public radio/tv is socially irresponsible, but it is well within their rights as a private corporation.
3. NPR has an important role to play here. NPR is the friendly bully for all public interest and community radio. A lot of community/low power radio efforts can be assisted by the rules and regs that help the bigger public broadcasters like NPR and PBS. The social climate in the US is not currently favorable for public broadcasting. I would hope that in the long run people and corporations will realize that this is important and use their voices and dollars to support it. We need to put some other pressure on media rebroadcasters (cable compaines, satellite radio companies, regular broadcasters) to continue to push public interest programs and support the little guy, not because the law says they do, but because its what they ought to do.
Yes! Video game consoles are there to teach our kids about violence not sex, damn liberals trying to make poor Jack Thompson sue for different things at once.
Assuming you're American, you need to remember that a NON-partisian organization needs to include ALL political parties and ALL voters. This includes independents, Libertarians, Greens, Socialists, Communists, and all the other 'minor' ideas. Non-partisian doesn't mean just democrats and republicans, do you hear me League of Women Voters?
As for the moderation issue, make it clear and make your users agree to a 'debate not argue' concept. By example, I was at a political rally for PeirceForOhio.com last week. A Green supporter, a Blackwell supporter, and I were having a discussion about poltics. We disagreed, but we were amiable and making points all around. Another rally-er came over and started ranting while we were having a nice conversation, irritated all of us.
Your users need to be reminded that a discussion forum is for DISCUSSION and is not a pulpit.
A strategy that I use on a non-political board is NEVER to delete posts. I move, split, and edit and every time I have to moderate I make it clear why the thread was moderated. I and the other admins also listen to and respond to issues with moderation, but not in the moderated thread.
"But then I started to get spam from the same mailing-list operator that the CBOE had used, but this time they were promoting other brokerages like TD Waterhouse, and most recently "TradeKing" which seems very questionable."
"I've since opened an account with TD Waterhouse"
So you have done buisness with a company knowing that they advertise by spam.
I do give you some credit, a 5 minute search failed to yield an email address though you are an avid Slashdot poster and a home theatre afficionado.
Still. WTF man. You seem savvy, why are you doing buisness with a company that spamvertises.
" Are the odds of someone making high six-figures not returning a laptop equal to the odds of interns making low-five figures not returning office supplies?"
Having been a low 5's intern for a year now (3 companies in that time), with interns and part-time college student work (2 jobs in 5 years) it depends on how we're treated.
The owner who laid the entire photo lab staff off the weekend before finals and didn't have the balls to tell us himself (making our favorite manager/office mom cry when she told us) lost at least $800 x 3 people on that deal plus some ahh intangibles hidden throughout the building.
Current job, 3.000 EUR of computer gear and software gets delivered and stored right behind my desk. I leave the city tomorrow and the country on Tuesday and I know at least 3 shops + ebay that won't ask questions. I didn't even fondle the packaging.
I remember reading about this a few years ago in SciAm.
I think a lot of the reason it hasn't caught on is cited in your Wiki link. Its a classic case of NIMBY.
Its a town in the middle of a big farming state, its residents should be used to the smell of animal processing. All of a sudden theres sometihng new, and almost too good to be true, and they start smelling 'new' smells and begin pointing fingers.
The biggest hurdle to any new energy source is public acceptance. This is getting even harder in the States with a public that is rejecting science and accepting of short-term politically driven decisions.
IIRC most drive failures are not in the platters but in the controller. Would you duplicate the controller as well? Would disk makers start offering new control boards to fix broken drives?
The RIAA had a [completely bullshit] claim in progress against the decesased.
Just as if the deceased had outstanding debt, there is now a claim against his estate. Ignoring the absurd basis of the original lawsuit, this is a perfectly normal and legitimate legal claim. An outstanding lawsuit is no different from having a hospital bill, burial fees, outstanding credit card debt, a mortgage and so on.
Again, I agree that the original RIAA claim is bupkis, however, they are not 'suing the children', they are filing a claim against the estate just like any other debtor.
Slashdot Mirror
"If they're spending their time investigating quakers, who are they missing?"
THE AMISH!
You have the same issue with normal blocking methods unless you faraday cage the windows too.
A more likely situation is that a few years down the road a company grows and needs more space . The leasing agency who owns the building (re)moves a non-load bearing wall and rents them some more space from the unit next door. No one remembered that the company had this paint on and now you have an open wall. Could even happen with the traditional methods.
I'm even willing to speculate that because the other 3 walls are coated in it that it may offer a *slight* directional effect.
IMHO it depends on price. For an organization who has moderate security concerns and understands that caging their wireless signals will help (to varyng extents) and that the EM paint is a more cost effective helper than a full metal cage.
Its a small-medium sized German car. I for one am more concerned about the hail that size than I am about the shuttle.
..gets slashdotted. Here is a link to the Google cache. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:7IGly_-xAMIJ: labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html+Failure+ Trends+in+a+Large+Disk+Drive+Population&hl=en&ct=c lnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera
..I thought it said PANTSLESS. Boy was I hoping for that kind of cancer.
Are you making a bad currency joke or a bad binary joke?
So you just voted yourself off the island?
It is "east German" not "East German". The only ones who make a distinction are the dinosaurs and the communists who can't catch up with the rest of the world. I lived and worked in Dresden and the only ones left who complain about the seperation are 30 and 40 somethings who couldn't adapt and learn how to earn a job instead of being given a job. Anyone older than that learned how to cope during the war and adapted again.
Its roughly equivalent to Der Spiegel citing "Herr Taco in der Wild West Staat von California..." or "Doktor Merkwerdichliebe von der Confederate Staat Alabama...".
That wasn't just a company, that was the US government.
Animal un-safe kitty litter!
Rectum?! Damn near killed him!
My bias showed, and someone caught it and sevewral people spoke up. Thats exactly how I would like it to work, unfortunately in the mass media there is no time/space for a proper rebuttal or critique.
...just as well as I know the bias of the NYT.
One of the basics of journalism is understanding that as a journalist you can't elminate your bias. What you can do is try to minimize your bias and in cases of opinion and analysis declare your bias as well as the bias of your sources. The Reg said it best in this case, "A better policy might insist that the Times disclose the ties between an analyst and a vendor, leaving the reader to make the credibility judgement." . So if I see a Microsoft enginner quoted I'm told he is an MS engie and when I see TurdFurgeson quoted I'm told he's Linux zealot.
Thats really the best the NYT can do as a responsible organization, if you eliminate all bias you remove your writers humanity and create a lie. While removing bias your own mind will fool itself and think you've removed them when really you've magnified them. Biases are what lead to needed critiques, so long as those biases are dealt with openly and honestly we should be ok.
*Note I'm not a journalist, but the points here have been beaten into my head by several close journalist friends. The bias question was also material for an elective journalism course for me at college.* - There see. I declared my bias. I like and trust most journalists because I know some good ones. I've also pointed out that I lack formal training in the area, so I might know enough to contribute but I shouldn't be quoted as an expert source.
Give them a rather nasty technical question, even something that is beyond your experience or is totally made up (SQL Server on Slackware 4). Instead of asking them for an answer ask what steps they would take to find the answer. An entry level anything is going to have to learn a lot on the job.
Entry level implies that you want someone who can grow, so try and find out where they started and how they got there. Should show you a little about their learning style and curve.
The rookies will also run into situations that they haven't been trained for. You need to see if they can step through it and get a partial solution before going up a level and that in the interest of customer service they can recognize when they're getting in too deep and need some help.
No people like me understand the realities of the situation. I use more pleasant language, but I have both shot down and supported open source projects on the job. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. Everyone has promised total solutions over the years using a given OS, source philosophy, or magic software. No one of them is a solution.
Part of my ire comes from the jerkwad parent poster who couldn't even read the executive summary paragraph. Still though, I don't have a choice for what works, I have a choice for what takes less of time time and breaks less.
Would you like me to wipe your ass and do your homework too?
"Xandros is a distribution based on Debian that is meant for home users and small businesses that use older versions of Windows (98, ME, 2000) while letting those users utilize all of their saved information from Microsoft Office by using CodeWeaver's CrossOver Office, which seamlessly installs and runs a variety of Windows' programs. Xandros is specifically designed for people who have only known and used Windows and offers solitude from viruses, et al. as well as freedom since Xandros is on the Linux platform."
Pretty much it does everything else Linux will do. Offer different annoyances from the other OSs. Windows annoys me off and on throughout the week, upgrades that break things, security holes, DRM, nagging popup warnings (YES YOU CUNT! If I'm using RDP then I either goddamn well know what I'm doing or I'm just a dumb luser following directions, don't make me click thru another warning.). Linux offers me the chance to take a week to find the program that does what I want, in 2006 you don't write your own Linux software because no one else has, you do it because theres so goddamned much of it you can't find what you need and the elistist 'experts' won't throw you bone and help you get on with your computing efforts. The Mac OS offers me the chance to be prick to the general public (much like I'm doing now) almost every day. I can make all sorts of pretty movies and "things just work" oh except when you have to install something like say a database so you can do your work when, OH BOY, you get to drop into Linux shell again.
At least when there was DOS you didn't have the illusion of unlimited options. By the time you installed any decent software you had already sat there for hours swapping floppies (it sounded dirty and we liked it that way) and after you invested that time and money well by god you were going to use that piece of software no matter what.
I misunderstood the article and was unaware that NPR was indeed rebroadcast on XM/Sirius. Thank you for correcting me, peer-review does work!
Perhaps not your rights online, but it is affecting your rights.
1. The FCC is involved. This is an agency that has some questionable pracitices and policies. Its primary purpose is to regulate the airwaves on the interest and behalf of the public. In this case the FCC can make or break a decision to give the public more choice in how it recieves its news and entertainment. This is a matter of your money (if you buy ANYTHING from the US or anything carring an FCC cert you have in some way paid taxes some of which went to the FCC) being used to control your airwaves and your choice for content delivered on those frequencies.
2. Current media oligolopy. The traditional broadcasters (ie ClearChannel) are trying to maintain their hold over the radio market. I expect this kind of behavior from such agencies but NPR, though a private organization, has traditionally worked hard for the public. I suspect that NPR is invovled here because NPR isn't being broadcast on XM/Sirius because they can't pay or won't make enough revenue for the satellite providers. I personally find that not broadcasting public radio/tv is socially irresponsible, but it is well within their rights as a private corporation.
3. NPR has an important role to play here. NPR is the friendly bully for all public interest and community radio. A lot of community/low power radio efforts can be assisted by the rules and regs that help the bigger public broadcasters like NPR and PBS. The social climate in the US is not currently favorable for public broadcasting. I would hope that in the long run people and corporations will realize that this is important and use their voices and dollars to support it. We need to put some other pressure on media rebroadcasters (cable compaines, satellite radio companies, regular broadcasters) to continue to push public interest programs and support the little guy, not because the law says they do, but because its what they ought to do.
Yes! Video game consoles are there to teach our kids about violence not sex, damn liberals trying to make poor Jack Thompson sue for different things at once.
Assuming you're American, you need to remember that a NON-partisian organization needs to include ALL political parties and ALL voters. This includes independents, Libertarians, Greens, Socialists, Communists, and all the other 'minor' ideas. Non-partisian doesn't mean just democrats and republicans, do you hear me League of Women Voters?
As for the moderation issue, make it clear and make your users agree to a 'debate not argue' concept. By example, I was at a political rally for PeirceForOhio.com last week. A Green supporter, a Blackwell supporter, and I were having a discussion about poltics. We disagreed, but we were amiable and making points all around. Another rally-er came over and started ranting while we were having a nice conversation, irritated all of us.
Your users need to be reminded that a discussion forum is for DISCUSSION and is not a pulpit.
See also issues arising from Godwins Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
A strategy that I use on a non-political board is NEVER to delete posts. I move, split, and edit and every time I have to moderate I make it clear why the thread was moderated. I and the other admins also listen to and respond to issues with moderation, but not in the moderated thread.
"But then I started to get spam from the same mailing-list operator that the CBOE had used, but this time they were promoting other brokerages like TD Waterhouse, and most recently "TradeKing" which seems very questionable."
"I've since opened an account with TD Waterhouse"
So you have done buisness with a company knowing that they advertise by spam.
I do give you some credit, a 5 minute search failed to yield an email address though you are an avid Slashdot poster and a home theatre afficionado.
Still. WTF man. You seem savvy, why are you doing buisness with a company that spamvertises.
" Are the odds of someone making high six-figures not returning a laptop equal to the odds of interns making low-five figures not returning office supplies?"
Having been a low 5's intern for a year now (3 companies in that time), with interns and part-time college student work (2 jobs in 5 years) it depends on how we're treated.
The owner who laid the entire photo lab staff off the weekend before finals and didn't have the balls to tell us himself (making our favorite manager/office mom cry when she told us) lost at least $800 x 3 people on that deal plus some ahh intangibles hidden throughout the building.
Current job, 3.000 EUR of computer gear and software gets delivered and stored right behind my desk. I leave the city tomorrow and the country on Tuesday and I know at least 3 shops + ebay that won't ask questions. I didn't even fondle the packaging.
As a slave-type I'm so upset with BOTH of you using intrusion that I need to be punished.
I remember reading about this a few years ago in SciAm.
I think a lot of the reason it hasn't caught on is cited in your Wiki link. Its a classic case of NIMBY.
Its a town in the middle of a big farming state, its residents should be used to the smell of animal processing. All of a sudden theres sometihng new, and almost too good to be true, and they start smelling 'new' smells and begin pointing fingers.
The biggest hurdle to any new energy source is public acceptance. This is getting even harder in the States with a public that is rejecting science and accepting of short-term politically driven decisions.
IIRC most drive failures are not in the platters but in the controller. Would you duplicate the controller as well? Would disk makers start offering new control boards to fix broken drives?
The RIAA had a [completely bullshit] claim in progress against the decesased.
Just as if the deceased had outstanding debt, there is now a claim against his estate. Ignoring the absurd basis of the original lawsuit, this is a perfectly normal and legitimate legal claim. An outstanding lawsuit is no different from having a hospital bill, burial fees, outstanding credit card debt, a mortgage and so on.
Again, I agree that the original RIAA claim is bupkis, however, they are not 'suing the children', they are filing a claim against the estate just like any other debtor.