slaves were much cheaper than paid employees and easier to 'manage'
I'm not excepting that without better evidence, slaves have to be purchased, fed, clothed, and supervised which I assume to be higher than people who are hired. Additionaly slaves are low productivity workers and I see selling or trading a problem slave as being more difficult and expensive than firing a problem worker. In the American south Durring slavery days, I remember seeing something about the average slave only working 4 hours a day and half of that was to support his/her subsistance which left 2 hours production for the owners.
If slavery was economicaly effiecent, than I'd assume at least one of the many slave socieies would have been a sucess.
My Cousin manages a group home for mentaly disabled, and I can tell you we a great deal of confidence that they can do jobs that you or I as normal or above intellegence can not. At the extremes of the intellence scale, specific skills are often exagerated, imagine having the fine motor skills and low boredom threashold to thread needles 8 hours a day.
I'd like to see a robot pick tomatoes with a ROI that's better than hiring a migrant farm worker.
(2) The term ''telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which has the capacity(emphisis is mine)
(A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or
(B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.
and further more,
(4) The term ''unsolicited advertisement'' means any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services which is transmitted to any person without that person's prior express invitation or permission.
so the sections
(b) Restrictions on Use of Automated Telephone Equipment
(1) Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -...
(C) to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine;...
(5) Private Right of Action. A person who has received more than one telephone call within any 12-month period by or on behalf of the same entity in violation of the regulations prescribed under this subsection may, if otherwise permitted by the laws or rules of court of a State bring in an appropriate court of that State (emphysis is mine) -
(A) an action based on a violation of the regulations prescribed under this subsection to enjoin such violation,
(B) an action to recover for actual monetary loss from such a violation, or to receive up to $500 in damages for each such violation, whichever is greater, or
(C) both such actions.
Additionaly
(1) Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States -
(B) to use a computer or other electronic device to send any message via a telephone facsimile machine unless such person clearly marks, in a margin at the top or bottom of each transmitted page of the message or on the first page of the transmission, the date and time it is sent and an identification of the business, other entity, or individual sending the message and the telephone number of the sending machine or of such business, other entity, or individual.
(f) Actions by States
(1) Authority of States. Whenever the attorney general of a State, or an official or agency designated by a State, has reason to believe that any person has engaged or is engaging in a pattern or practice of telephone calls or other transmissions to residents of that State in violation of this section or the regulations prescribed under this section, the State may bring a civil action on behalf of its residents to enjoin such calls, an action to recover for actual monetary loss or receive $500 in damages for each violation, or both such actions. If the court finds the defendant willfully or knowingly violated such regulations, the court may, in its discretion, increase the amount of the award to an amount equal to not more than 3 times the amount available under the preceding sentence. (8) ''Attorney General'' Defined. As used in this subsection, the term ''attorney general'' means the chief legal officer of a State.
while IANAL, it seems to me that Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov, A person under US law has recieved an unsolicited advertisement, to his computer which has the capacity to send and recieve faxes via a telephone line so it
Imagine a UN WMD inspection team desending on your warehouse full of penise enlargement pills looking for chemical weapon materials being smuggled!
I'm also sure there is a law somewhere pertaining to persons interfering with government operations in the US and very probably it doesn't define gov ops as USG only so it likely that it applies to interfering with foriegn governments as well because the several states are foriegn governments too.
Nothing worth mod'ing one way or the other so I might as well post.
D-Link is a pretty clueless company; we have a DL614+ accesspoint/router. Originaly was connected to a WinME machine that had internet connection sharing enabled and a directPC satelite connection to the internet; this was difficult to set up, completely unsupported by all of the involved parties and after a couple days of changing settings, googling, and digging about the microsoft knowlege base worked quite well.
After about six months of this, Comcast finaly lights up the brand new fiber and we get a cable-modem! Goodbye satelite, Hello real broadband connection, this is the way the DL 614+ is designed to work it should be a toaster now plug it in and it should work, so I restore to the factory defaults, plug it in and nothing, the DL614+ refuses to route to the internet.
After talking to d-link tech support for a hour, everybody is agreed that the router is broken and we get a RMA number. We take the Immediate replacement option give them a CC number and figure the replacement is on the way. After 2 weeks still no replacement router so we call back and finaly get connected to a facilitator who tells us that the order was sent to shipping nine days ago, so we ask for the status/shipper tracking number which he couldn't give us; instead he puts us on hold and walks over to shipping to find out!
There is no valid reason why a compamny that manufactures and sells networking equipment should ever use Sneaker-Net for internal comunications; if their internal business methods are that stone-age, can you imagine what their source code looks like, well at least the parts that arn't cut and pasted from the chip vendor's code examples or other sources?
A company invokved in networking, should have set themselves up as a showcase for how their equipment can nake a home/department/small biz an efficient, highly integrated smooth running organisation; especialy now with the economy being slow.
I didn't really get that either, what are they trying to pinpoint, the document that had been shredded, or which shreder did the shredding? Id'ing the shredder from the shreds could be very usefull to professional spooks. Or I could see it being useful for a company or law enforcement trying to show person's misconduct by proving his shredder shredded evidence.
serval decades ago in the army we used a burning barrel, it had small holes in it and a couple of rocks inside, after burning the doc, you would turn the handle and the rocks would pulverise the ashes until they were small enough to fall out the holes. Later, units with small needs were issued kitchen blenders, 30 sec on frape` would turn an 8x10 page into dust.
I'd imagine if you realy needed effective disposal, that each office could cross-shred at the generation site, then the shreds would be collected and run through one of those electric leaf mulchers before public disposal, compaction then would really complicate reconstruction!.
I work in a dental office and we have the same problems, it's a case where anything stronger enough to achieve hospital grade disinfection and or sterilization, is inherently corrosive to something.
Synthetic phenols are the worst, they'll slowly disolve any plastic, corrode any metal except stainless steel, and build up a gunk in time that'll short out or jam any switches ect
Quantrinary ammonium-halides in a isopropanol solution seem to be the least destructive in general at our office. Just remember it takes a 10 minute contact time to be effective and the surface MUST BE CLEAN before disinfection
If the idea is about protecting the repair tech, forget it, just make him/her take the bbs classes and they'll have to glove before working on things, if they blow out dust, that means face mask and gogles too.
Unless somebody makes equipment rated to survive 140C, 30PSI steam, you are stuck with spray on disintectant or ehtylene oxide gas
read an analog clock I had trouble figuring out if the big hand was the short fat one or the long skinny one, they both had about the same surface area!
(Remember green-and-white striped pinfeed fanfold paper with that highly professional looking ALL CAPITALS dot matrix font? Fetching!)
you sir are an obvious troll, those printers were chain printers, the characters were on a steel tape that circulated and were struck with a hammer when the character was over the correct column position sort of like a daisy-wheel printer. The printer had 132 hammers, one for each column except the last which was for the linefeed character.
I had an organic chem instructor and she used to guess the cube roots of 4 and 5 digit numbers in her head in front of the class, then ask some one in the class for the calculator answer; she was always amazingly close
surely you jest, you need paper for 3/492? If you use a calculator, don't you at least have to be able to estimate the answer in your head so you know you didn't hit the wrong key?
technology is not an excuse for ignoring the literacy part of computer literacy or following directions or critical thinking.
Hey it's no biggie, if it's just as illegal/difficult to get an engine that'll lift a hundred grams a hundred meters, as it is to get an engine that'll lift a 100 Kilograms 10 Kilometers, what do you think the mal-adjusted technophiles out there are going to do?
I call it the Canada effect i.e. they ban hand guns and two years later, people are robbing banks with bazookas, and RPG's!
Seriously, the average kid and General public is going to be a Safer using well made low impulse commercial model rocket engines, rather than trying to home-brew an engine out of black powder or match heads.
Actualy gps works by transmitting very accurate data on the position of the transmitting station and time, using atomic clocks. They are normaly found much lower than geo-sink orbits, in fact you can get gps ground stations, they can be set up over a known point on the ground and boost accuacy tremendously.
Because you know where the transmiter is and when, the reciever can figure out the only place where the signals from the known locations can occur at the measured times.
While I'm not a dentist, I am a Dental Technicican who works for a dentist, and read the trades arround the office; so any opinions should be considered as questions for your licensed dental health providers.
Clinical Proof = A sample of patients, selected by the manufacter to be highly motivated to comply with treatment protocols, and to have stains that the product are most effective against, have achieved a statisticaly significant whitening. The tester are dentists of course, and publish in peer reviewed journals, so they of course use a professional level of ethics; but because the work is funded by a vendor, results that are complimentary to the vendor tend to get submitted to the publisher, results that arn't tend to get forgotten,
The amount of whitening is usualy poorly defined as a "shade" rather than well defined as in "Patient presented with shade A3.5 on the Vita Lumin(Tm) vacuum shade guide(an industry standard shade guide) and achieve shade A2 apon completetion of treatment".
FDA approval for Dental products are not as riggerous as for Medical Products. In fact materials that are FDA regulated are not regulated by OSHA,alowing dental personnel to be exposed to chemicals that would not be allowed in any other work places.
Teeth have two types of stain,
external or extrinsic this is a staining of the bio-film, Plaque and tartar.
internal or intrinstic staining of the actual tooth enamal such as coffee/tea/tobaco or even deeper levels as in tetracycline stains.
All tooth whitening products work by oxygen bleaching, which is released from peroxide ions, either hydrogen peroxide (weaker) or from carboxamides (stronger). Additionaly the oxygen tends to kill or inhibit anaerobic organisms which are more likely to be pathogenic and odor causing.
so I would recommend
a professional teeth cleaning at your dentist's office or a local dental hygiene school.
Using dent-mat's "Dazzling White" tooth paste kit,(low abrasion) or at least a bicarbonate of soda/hydrogen peroxide tooth paste and J&J's whitening dental floss for any remaining between teeth stains (abrasive).
an Over The Counter toothe whitening product.
don't get too carried away with the whitening, adults don't look natural with milk-white teeth, and teeth that are too white can make matching shades for restorative work immpossible. As for effectiveness I'd say that if the crest products were not effective, then the dental community would not be so royaly pissed off at them for marketing direct to the public, instead of through the dentists. In offfice or dentist supplied take home kits do tend to work faster.
Will we alienate/confuse/loose customers by making a change from IE to another browser?
1. Given how heavily modified IE's look and layout was the last time I saw AOL
2. Given how a lot of AOLers don't even know that they are running IE when they log-in to AOL.
3. Given how much AOL is spending to develope add-on's to IE that duplicate stuff that's already inside Mozilla, which they've already paid for;
I'm amazed that they are still using IE. Considering that most of the basic browser activities are all the same, and that most people never change their preferences, unless tech support is holding their hand, I don't think anybody is going to be alienated/confused or lost.
Most people over-estimate the amount of damage caused by getting electircal equipment wet; distilled water has a pretty high resistence (13 MegOhms pops into my head), and tap water has less resistace but it's still not a dead short.
I'm not saying get stupid about mixing electricity, water and people but most equipment is more rugged about electicity than we think.
If you take a wet computer(unplugged please), 1.wash it down with distilled water to disolve any salts left from the tap water, 2. wash it down with alcohol to wash out most of the water, 3. blow it out with air, 4. let it dry a couple days, 5. check for obvious shorts to ground, 6. turn it on in a controlled environment watching carefully for smoke or unusual smell; you would be amazed at how often it works.
I'd recommend making the 'puter room with steel studs, these will not burn, and their relative thinness conducts little heat. If I were so woried that I'd even consider installing Halon, what I'd do is;
1. Outer wall sheathed in the concrete backer board, with expanded steel mesh in the morter and a second backer-board layer 2. steel studs in walls and ceiling 3. steel rebar inserted through the studs so they'll spin if somebody try's to hacksaw through them 4. fiber glass fiber insulation between the studs to keep heat at bay in a fire. 5. inner wall, ceiling, concrete backer-board, steel mesh and morter and second backer-board 6. make sure you have enough conduit passing through for all of your networking, and power needs 7. ground the copper sheathing and your almost at Tempest quality shielding! 8. install a comercial steel, concrete filled door and install deadbolts on both the hinge side and the dooor knob side.
this will give you a room the is virtualy impregnable and useful not just for your computers, but for storing valuable or irreplacables in, and keeping the kids and thieves away from your guns too.
my sport is bowling, and over the past few years the technology involved in ball coverings has been incrediable. To use these new balls you have to throw them at 19MPH on a heavy oiled surface, but most serious recreational bowlers through about 15-18 MPH on a lightly oiled surface that's usualy bone dry on the edges; so its amusing to see the "know-it-alls" trying to bowl with the latest $200.00 just been on the TV match bowling ball. These balls are made for pro's that throw 100-200 games a week, they just don't work the same for a serious rec bowler throwing 100-200 games a year, my bigest problem is find new dinosaur eggs to throw. Also these balls are pretty well worn out after a hundred games, or about one league for a year, serious bowlers might compete in 3-5 leagues, so most of the times they are throwing a worn-out ball anyways.
I have found that watching the ladies on the LPBA, and what works for them, give me a much better idea of what might work for me. the strenght and skill levels of the lpba is a better match of what a serius recreational bowler might acheive.
I've got Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 and it's a bit on the slow side, but that opposed to it being slothish in the past. oveall I'm happier with it than with 1.3.
BTW i wish they'd put the download speed back on the browser, I miss that from the 4.7 days.
I'm not sure that there are any difference, that a non-technicaly astute user would notice. Replace the mozilla icon in the upper right with your company logo, tell them its the new company "skin" on IE and probably 10 -20% wouldn't know it wasn't IE.
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slaves were much cheaper than paid employees and easier to 'manage'
I'm not excepting that without better evidence, slaves have to be purchased, fed, clothed, and supervised which I assume to be higher than people who are hired. Additionaly slaves are low productivity workers and I see selling or trading a problem slave as being more difficult and expensive than firing a problem worker. In the American south Durring slavery days, I remember seeing something about the average slave only working 4 hours a day and half of that was to support his/her subsistance which left 2 hours production for the owners.
If slavery was economicaly effiecent, than I'd assume at least one of the many slave socieies would have been a sucess.
My Cousin manages a group home for mentaly disabled, and I can tell you we a great deal of confidence that they can do jobs that you or I as normal or above intellegence can not. At the extremes of the intellence scale, specific skills are often exagerated, imagine having the fine motor skills and low boredom threashold to thread needles 8 hours a day.
I'd like to see a robot pick tomatoes with a ROI that's better than hiring a migrant farm worker.
and further more,
so the sections
Additionaly
while IANAL, it seems to me that Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov, A person under US law has recieved an unsolicited advertisement, to his computer which has the capacity to send and recieve faxes via a telephone line so it
Imagine a UN WMD inspection team desending on your warehouse full of penise enlargement pills looking for chemical weapon materials being smuggled!
I'm also sure there is a law somewhere pertaining to persons interfering with government operations in the US and very probably it doesn't define gov ops as USG only so it likely that it applies to interfering with foriegn governments as well because the several states are foriegn governments too.
just put your thunb in your mouth and blow, like in the cartoons!
Nothing worth mod'ing one way or the other so I might as well post.
D-Link is a pretty clueless company; we have a DL614+ accesspoint/router. Originaly was connected to a WinME machine that had internet connection sharing enabled and a directPC satelite connection to the internet; this was difficult to set up, completely unsupported by all of the involved parties and after a couple days of changing settings, googling, and digging about the microsoft knowlege base worked quite well.
After about six months of this, Comcast finaly lights up the brand new fiber and we get a cable-modem! Goodbye satelite, Hello real broadband connection, this is the way the DL 614+ is designed to work it should be a toaster now plug it in and it should work, so I restore to the factory defaults, plug it in and nothing, the DL614+ refuses to route to the internet.
After talking to d-link tech support for a hour, everybody is agreed that the router is broken and we get a RMA number. We take the Immediate replacement option give them a CC number and figure the replacement is on the way. After 2 weeks still no replacement router so we call back and finaly get connected to a facilitator who tells us that the order was sent to shipping nine days ago, so we ask for the status/shipper tracking number which he couldn't give us; instead he puts us on hold and walks over to shipping to find out!
There is no valid reason why a compamny that manufactures and sells networking equipment should ever use Sneaker-Net for internal comunications; if their internal business methods are that stone-age, can you imagine what their source code looks like, well at least the parts that arn't cut and pasted from the chip vendor's code examples or other sources?
A company invokved in networking, should have set themselves up as a showcase for how their equipment can nake a home/department/small biz an efficient, highly integrated smooth running organisation; especialy now with the economy being slow.
I didn't really get that either, what are they trying to pinpoint, the document that had been shredded, or which shreder did the shredding? Id'ing the shredder from the shreds could be very usefull to professional spooks. Or I could see it being useful for a company or law enforcement trying to show person's misconduct by proving his shredder shredded evidence.
serval decades ago in the army we used a burning barrel, it had small holes in it and a couple of rocks inside, after burning the doc, you would turn the handle and the rocks would pulverise the ashes until they were small enough to fall out the holes. Later, units with small needs were issued kitchen blenders, 30 sec on frape` would turn an 8x10 page into dust.
I'd imagine if you realy needed effective disposal, that each office could cross-shred at the generation site, then the shreds would be collected and run through one of those electric leaf mulchers before public disposal, compaction then would really complicate reconstruction!.
I work in a dental office and we have the same problems, it's a case where anything stronger enough to achieve hospital grade disinfection and or sterilization, is inherently corrosive to something.
Synthetic phenols are the worst, they'll slowly disolve any plastic, corrode any metal except stainless steel, and build up a gunk in time that'll short out or jam any switches ect
Quantrinary ammonium-halides in a isopropanol solution seem to be the least destructive in general at our office. Just remember it takes a 10 minute contact time to be effective and the surface MUST BE CLEAN before disinfection
If the idea is about protecting the repair tech, forget it, just make him/her take the bbs classes and they'll have to glove before working on things, if they blow out dust, that means face mask and gogles too.
Unless somebody makes equipment rated to survive 140C, 30PSI steam, you are stuck with spray on disintectant or ehtylene oxide gas
read an analog clock
I had trouble figuring out if the big hand was the short fat one or the long skinny one, they both had about the same surface area!
(Remember green-and-white striped pinfeed fanfold paper with that highly professional looking ALL CAPITALS dot matrix font? Fetching!)
you sir are an obvious troll, those printers were chain printers, the characters were on a steel tape that circulated and were struck with a hammer when the character was over the correct column position sort of like a daisy-wheel printer. The printer had 132 hammers, one for each column except the last which was for the linefeed character.
I had an organic chem instructor and she used to guess the cube roots of 4 and 5 digit numbers in her head in front of the class, then ask some one in the class for the calculator answer; she was always amazingly close
surely you jest, you need paper for 3/492? If you use a calculator, don't you at least have to be able to estimate the answer in your head so you know you didn't hit the wrong key?
technology is not an excuse for ignoring the literacy part of computer literacy or following directions or critical thinking.
Hey it's no biggie, if it's just as illegal/difficult to get an engine that'll lift a hundred grams a hundred meters, as it is to get an engine that'll lift a 100 Kilograms 10 Kilometers, what do you think the mal-adjusted technophiles out there are going to do?
I call it the Canada effect i.e. they ban hand guns and two years later, people are robbing banks with bazookas, and RPG's!
Seriously, the average kid and General public is going to be a Safer using well made low impulse commercial model rocket engines, rather than trying to home-brew an engine out of black powder or match heads.
Actualy gps works by transmitting very accurate data on the position of the transmitting station and time, using atomic clocks. They are normaly found much lower than geo-sink orbits, in fact you can get gps ground stations, they can be set up over a known point on the ground and boost accuacy tremendously.
Because you know where the transmiter is and when, the reciever can figure out the only place where the signals from the known locations can occur at the measured times.
so I would recommend
dental hygiene school.
don't get too carried away with the whitening, adults don't look natural with milk-white teeth, and teeth that are too white can make matching shades for restorative work immpossible. As for effectiveness I'd say that if the crest products were not effective, then the dental
community would not be so royaly pissed off at them for marketing direct to the public, instead of through the dentists. In offfice or dentist supplied take home kits do tend to work faster.
Change the "e" icon to a shortcut for moz and wait to see if anyone notices!
Will we alienate/confuse/loose customers by making a change from IE to another browser?
1. Given how heavily modified IE's look and layout was the last time I saw AOL
2. Given how a lot of AOLers don't even know that they are running IE when they log-in to AOL.
3. Given how much AOL is spending to develope add-on's to IE that duplicate stuff that's already inside Mozilla, which they've already paid for;
I'm amazed that they are still using IE. Considering that most of the basic browser activities are all the same, and that most people never change their preferences, unless tech support is holding their hand, I don't think anybody is going to be alienated/confused or lost.
Most people over-estimate the amount of damage caused by getting electircal equipment wet; distilled water has a pretty high resistence (13 MegOhms pops into my head), and tap water has less resistace but it's still not a dead short.
I'm not saying get stupid about mixing electricity, water and people but most equipment is more rugged about electicity than we think.
If you take a wet computer(unplugged please),
1.wash it down with distilled water to disolve any salts left from the tap water,
2. wash it down with alcohol to wash out most of the water,
3. blow it out with air,
4. let it dry a couple days,
5. check for obvious shorts to ground,
6. turn it on in a controlled environment watching carefully for smoke or unusual smell;
you would be amazed at how often it works.
I'd recommend making the 'puter room with steel studs, these will not burn, and their relative thinness conducts little heat. If I were so woried that I'd even consider installing Halon, what I'd do is;
1. Outer wall sheathed in the concrete backer board, with expanded steel mesh in the morter and a second backer-board layer
2. steel studs in walls and ceiling
3. steel rebar inserted through the studs so they'll spin if somebody try's to hacksaw through them
4. fiber glass fiber insulation between the studs to keep heat at bay in a fire.
5. inner wall, ceiling, concrete backer-board, steel mesh and morter and second backer-board
6. make sure you have enough conduit passing through for all of your networking, and power needs
7. ground the copper sheathing and your almost at Tempest quality shielding!
8. install a comercial steel, concrete filled door and install deadbolts on both the hinge side and the dooor knob side.
this will give you a room the is virtualy impregnable and useful not just for your computers, but for storing valuable or irreplacables in, and keeping the kids and thieves away from your guns too.
my sport is bowling, and over the past few years the technology involved in ball coverings has been incrediable. To use these new balls you have to throw them at 19MPH on a heavy oiled surface, but most serious recreational bowlers through about 15-18 MPH on a lightly oiled surface that's usualy bone dry on the edges; so its amusing to see the "know-it-alls" trying to bowl with the latest $200.00 just been on the TV match bowling ball. These balls are made for pro's that throw 100-200 games a week, they just don't work the same for a serious rec bowler throwing 100-200 games a year, my bigest problem is find new dinosaur eggs to throw. Also these balls are pretty well worn out after a hundred games, or about one league for a year, serious bowlers might compete in 3-5 leagues, so most of the times they are throwing a worn-out ball anyways.
I have found that watching the ladies on the LPBA, and what works for them, give me a much better idea of what might work for me. the strenght and skill levels of the lpba is a better match of what a serius recreational bowler might acheive.
I've got Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 and it's a bit on the slow side, but that opposed to it being slothish in the past. oveall I'm happier with it than with 1.3.
BTW i wish they'd put the download speed back on the browser, I miss that from the 4.7 days.
I'm not sure that there are any difference, that a non-technicaly astute user would notice. Replace the mozilla icon in the upper right with your company logo, tell them its the new company "skin" on IE and probably 10 -20% wouldn't know it wasn't IE.
my experience has been tell them it's immpossible and its your fault when your right.
Your problem is that to many idiots actualy believe that marketing and sales actualy have something to do with each other.