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Covad used to sell DSL at that speed here in Michigan, but they called it "IDSL". This was most likely because of it really being ISDN.
When I was college (back in 1990), the Telecom 101 professor spent a good amount of time talking about BISDN -which stands for Broadband ISDN. I can't remember the data speeds he was talking about, but he did use the term frequently in reference to a lot of the services typically offered by the modern cable provider (i.e. video-on-demand, VOIP, etc.) I always just figured the term Broadband referred to the transfer medium required to provide these types of services.
It's called a Dead Man's Switch. I believe there was a web-based service that offered this a few years ago. I wonder if they're still around. And, someone's already written another DMS app in response to the NYT article mentioned in this story.
I think we'd lose a useful communication tool if we were to give it up entirely, but I agree with the concept as an attempt to get people to reduce television viewing, get off their fat asses and give their minds a taste of non-scripted, non-contrived reality.
A few years ago, after being disgusted with a $100+ cable bill (or at least disgusted with myself for having a $100+ cable bill), I called and told Comcast to turn off everything but my internet service. They said I should keep at least the "limited basic" service, since I would be paying for it anyway with the "non-cable-tv-subscriber-surcharge". So I did, and now I pay around $55-$60 (internet, limited basic, and Hi-Def).
The interesting part is that I'd thought I'd really miss things like SciFi, TLC, Discovery, etc., but I don't. If DSL were a viable option for me, I'd dump cable altogether and put up an antenna. With over-the-air digital becoming more prevalent, there's less reason to have cable service.
That's not what the article says. This article describes the FBI's desire to monitor the phone conversations, which they could probably do with any other mobile communication device (the cellphone you have pinned between your ear and shoulder while driving).
Wrong. Completely wrong. The airbag notification is an outbound (from the vehicle) call. OnStar does not track your vehicle unless you ask -- and that's only if your car is stolen. Keeping a live connection with the car is incredibly expensive. I mean, think about it, it's a cellular call on a private network. Then, if you really knew anything at all about how OnStar works you'd know that the maximum data transfer rates and storage capacities make even periodic upload of historical positions virtually impossible and prohibitively expensive. That's about all I can say, so just get over your paranoid selves already!
Insightful? This has been discussed many times before. The OnStar device is part of the vehicle -- which you most definitely own. Mucking around with the OnStar hardware will nullify any obligation OnStar has to provide service to you. If you don't purchase the service, then it's no loss to you or OnStar.
I assume you paid cash for that truck, since you must be equally concerned about being tracked through your credit history. You must have cut up all your credit cards and ATM cards long ago, too. Geez, you'd better not ever buy a new cell phone once E911 goes live.
Seriously, ask yourself if OnStar did share this data with law enforcement it would have been big news by now and they wouldn't have 3 million subscribers.
Again, you're linking the wrong cause with the effect. The flourishing economy was more likely because of the Internet and IT boom rather than NAFTA. The increase in unemployment caused by NAFTA was overshadowed by the shortage for IT workers -- but you have to admit that at least as far as skills are concerned that these are completely different sectors of the economy.
Maybe if you built robots, I suppose. I'm fairly certain that the e-commerce web sites, decision support tools, and in-vehicle telematics systems I've developed had little direct impact on the blue collar job market.
NAFTA, on the other hand, what Ross Perot called the "giant sucking sound", was primarily responsible for huge employment losses in the blue collar labor market. If I remember correctly, the government and big business were all for NAFTA, but the working people were all against it. Sound familiar? The difference is that we (tech workers) don't have even the unions to lobby for us like the blue collar folks did.
I like PostgreSQL, and Open Source deserves capitalization, but I'd like to hear an enterprise DBA's perspective on if this really compares to Oracle's configurability, clustering capabilities, or the seamless swapping of redundant database packages when deployed on, say, an EMC 1000, for reliability and failover. BTW, for this request, "enterprise" = Fortune 100, not Joe's Web Hosting.
Like the subject says, I'm not a DBA, but I know some pretty heavy-duty ones that say nothing beats Oracle running on HP Superdomes with EMC storage.
Almost forgot: the Arena pr0n server (18 Gigs of pr0n jpgs on an Novell file server) was something of a perk too that did more than a yoga instructor probably would. 18 Gigs of pr0n was a lot back in 1996.
I worked for a startup in the mid nineties that had an OSM (on-site masseuse), FLL (Friday Liquid Lunch), and LTWC (Lunch-time WarCraft). This reminds me a bit of the "keep your employees happy and they'll work 90 hours without complaining" movement, but all I really want these days is to be able to bring my dog to work with me again. You can keep your yoga.
That's exactly what they want you to do. I love XM Radio, but remember your history: think about the evolution of the cable/satellite tv industry. Somehow paying to see unique content and movies with fewer/no commercials has slowly evolved into paying to see the same old crap WITH commercials on 10 times as many channels. I really think you could find Friends on somewhere at any given time in this country.
1 & 2) Had this back in the early nineties at college with SunOS, NIS (later LDAP) and X11. Way to innovate, Microsoft!
3) it's more likely you upgraded your hardware somewhere along the way and a side-effect was faster ping times; an application framework seldom affects these kind of things.
Yet it doesn't seem very hard to cover up the radioactive fallout and debris left by modern-day "bunker busters".
Air traffic control systems do go down and behave oddly sometimes - sometimes without explanation and always without exposure. Ask an air traffic controller. It's a similar story for stock markets. The bottom line is that the more complex a system is, the harder it is to detect intentional corruption. Also, you are assuming an impartial and objective media -- something we just don't have anymore. To think otherwise is callow.
Just because the global news media machines haven't reported these things, doesn't mean they haven't happened. Let me put it another way, if these things ever could happen, there's no guarantee that the public would be informed. Odd things happen all the time and people are always a little too willing to accept "official" explanations from sources entangled in conflicts of interest.
Damn. Spoke too soon. Tried three more times and I got this:
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Did it last night (early in the morning). Got my email, but the web site is experiencing difficulties:
We're sorry. The National Do Not Call Registry is currently experiencing technical difficulties. To register, call 888-382-1222; for TTY, the number is 866-290-4236; or return to this web site later.
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Technically, Braille exists in three dimensions, but some may consider it simply analogous to raised type. What would make the difference would be to know if the third dimension is used as an additional descriptive element or just a conveyance mechanism. Does anyone know if bold or emphasized words have bigger bumps in Braille?
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Covad used to sell DSL at that speed here in Michigan, but they called it "IDSL". This was most likely because of it really being ISDN.
When I was college (back in 1990), the Telecom 101 professor spent a good amount of time talking about BISDN -which stands for Broadband ISDN. I can't remember the data speeds he was talking about, but he did use the term frequently in reference to a lot of the services typically offered by the modern cable provider (i.e. video-on-demand, VOIP, etc.) I always just figured the term Broadband referred to the transfer medium required to provide these types of services.
It's called a Dead Man's Switch. I believe there was a web-based service that offered this a few years ago. I wonder if they're still around. And, someone's already written another DMS app in response to the NYT article mentioned in this story.
I think we'd lose a useful communication tool if we were to give it up entirely, but I agree with the concept as an attempt to get people to reduce television viewing, get off their fat asses and give their minds a taste of non-scripted, non-contrived reality.
A few years ago, after being disgusted with a $100+ cable bill (or at least disgusted with myself for having a $100+ cable bill), I called and told Comcast to turn off everything but my internet service. They said I should keep at least the "limited basic" service, since I would be paying for it anyway with the "non-cable-tv-subscriber-surcharge". So I did, and now I pay around $55-$60 (internet, limited basic, and Hi-Def).
The interesting part is that I'd thought I'd really miss things like SciFi, TLC, Discovery, etc., but I don't. If DSL were a viable option for me, I'd dump cable altogether and put up an antenna. With over-the-air digital becoming more prevalent, there's less reason to have cable service.
Who remembers the big shakeout of the '83?
I made it more annoying with:
... or something very similar. Geez, it's been 20 years.
50 ONERR GOTO 10
That's not what the article says. This article describes the FBI's desire to monitor the phone conversations, which they could probably do with any other mobile communication device (the cellphone you have pinned between your ear and shoulder while driving).
Wrong. Completely wrong. The airbag notification is an outbound (from the vehicle) call. OnStar does not track your vehicle unless you ask -- and that's only if your car is stolen. Keeping a live connection with the car is incredibly expensive. I mean, think about it, it's a cellular call on a private network. Then, if you really knew anything at all about how OnStar works you'd know that the maximum data transfer rates and storage capacities make even periodic upload of historical positions virtually impossible and prohibitively expensive. That's about all I can say, so just get over your paranoid selves already!
Insightful? This has been discussed many times before. The OnStar device is part of the vehicle -- which you most definitely own. Mucking around with the OnStar hardware will nullify any obligation OnStar has to provide service to you. If you don't purchase the service, then it's no loss to you or OnStar.
Oh, give me a break. Here's the privacy statement from the OnStar site.
I assume you paid cash for that truck, since you must be equally concerned about being tracked through your credit history. You must have cut up all your credit cards and ATM cards long ago, too. Geez, you'd better not ever buy a new cell phone once E911 goes live.
Seriously, ask yourself if OnStar did share this data with law enforcement it would have been big news by now and they wouldn't have 3 million subscribers.
I didn't read the article, but, generally speaking, GPS receivers don't transmit, and GPS satellites don't track.
Again, you're linking the wrong cause with the effect. The flourishing economy was more likely because of the Internet and IT boom rather than NAFTA. The increase in unemployment caused by NAFTA was overshadowed by the shortage for IT workers -- but you have to admit that at least as far as skills are concerned that these are completely different sectors of the economy.
Maybe if you built robots, I suppose. I'm fairly certain that the e-commerce web sites, decision support tools, and in-vehicle telematics systems I've developed had little direct impact on the blue collar job market.
NAFTA, on the other hand, what Ross Perot called the "giant sucking sound", was primarily responsible for huge employment losses in the blue collar labor market. If I remember correctly, the government and big business were all for NAFTA, but the working people were all against it. Sound familiar? The difference is that we (tech workers) don't have even the unions to lobby for us like the blue collar folks did.
I like PostgreSQL, and Open Source deserves capitalization, but I'd like to hear an enterprise DBA's perspective on if this really compares to Oracle's configurability, clustering capabilities, or the seamless swapping of redundant database packages when deployed on, say, an EMC 1000, for reliability and failover. BTW, for this request, "enterprise" = Fortune 100, not Joe's Web Hosting.
Like the subject says, I'm not a DBA, but I know some pretty heavy-duty ones that say nothing beats Oracle running on HP Superdomes with EMC storage.
Almost forgot: the Arena pr0n server (18 Gigs of pr0n jpgs on an Novell file server) was something of a perk too that did more than a yoga instructor probably would. 18 Gigs of pr0n was a lot back in 1996.
I worked for a startup in the mid nineties that had an OSM (on-site masseuse), FLL (Friday Liquid Lunch), and LTWC (Lunch-time WarCraft). This reminds me a bit of the "keep your employees happy and they'll work 90 hours without complaining" movement, but all I really want these days is to be able to bring my dog to work with me again. You can keep your yoga.
That's exactly what they want you to do. I love XM Radio, but remember your history: think about the evolution of the cable/satellite tv industry. Somehow paying to see unique content and movies with fewer/no commercials has slowly evolved into paying to see the same old crap WITH commercials on 10 times as many channels. I really think you could find Friends on somewhere at any given time in this country.
1 & 2) Had this back in the early nineties at college with SunOS, NIS (later LDAP) and X11. Way to innovate, Microsoft!
3) it's more likely you upgraded your hardware somewhere along the way and a side-effect was faster ping times; an application framework seldom affects these kind of things.
4) only weeks?!
5) troll
Yet it doesn't seem very hard to cover up the radioactive fallout and debris left by modern-day "bunker busters".
Air traffic control systems do go down and behave oddly sometimes - sometimes without explanation and always without exposure. Ask an air traffic controller. It's a similar story for stock markets. The bottom line is that the more complex a system is, the harder it is to detect intentional corruption. Also, you are assuming an impartial and objective media -- something we just don't have anymore. To think otherwise is callow.
(It's viewed from the side). Besides, balls aren't exactly individually visible. Thus, the dot represents the scrotum.
Since this really isn't a chick hangout anyways, how about:
"/. -- not just ascii for my erect penis"
It takes some imagination, but if the slash were longer (well, for me anyways) and the dot a little closer...
Ah,never mind; it's been a long week.
Just because the global news media machines haven't reported these things, doesn't mean they haven't happened. Let me put it another way, if these things ever could happen, there's no guarantee that the public would be informed. Odd things happen all the time and people are always a little too willing to accept "official" explanations from sources entangled in conflicts of interest.
REGISTRATION COMPLETE You have registered the following telephone number in the National Do Not Call Registry: 248-xxx-xxxx This registration will be effective until 6/28/2008. Please print a copy of this page for your records.
We're sorry. The National Do Not Call Registry is currently experiencing technical difficulties. To register, call 888-382-1222; for TTY, the number is 866-290-4236; or return to this web site later. (6/27/2003 2:17:53 PM/21)
"the only three-dimensional written language"
Technically, Braille exists in three dimensions, but some may consider it simply analogous to raised type. What would make the difference would be to know if the third dimension is used as an additional descriptive element or just a conveyance mechanism. Does anyone know if bold or emphasized words have bigger bumps in Braille?
Trust me: quality is always overshadowed by price in the standard US meet-the-quarterly-numbers business model.