In most (all?) states, Boards/Commissions can regulate LICENSED entities only. They can reprimand, fine in some cases, revoke licenses; BUT they must ask their Attorney General to enforce violations of law outside the Board's/Commission's jurisdiction, including "acting as a licensee". These organizations will sometimes exceed their statutory authority through ignorance of their state's laws. Slap down overreach where it exists...
Good grief! We were doing this in the early 60s when the carbon microphones in our headsets crapped out.
Switching earpeice between ear & mouth gave us half vs full duplex comms too...:)
three times now. Even offered to handle the last ~800 from the road to no avail. Meanwhile Windstream keeps raising price -- now nearly $80 for a measly 6-Mbps.
Windstream provides a whopping(sic) 6-Mbps for nearing $80/mo. Cable internet crosses my driveway and every request for connection has been turned down because I'm too far off the road; even after my offer to take care of the last 700 feet...
"David Bismark has co-developed an electronic voting system that contains a simple and reliable method of verification."
http://www.ted.com/talks/david...
Was in Baltimore on Monday and saw a couple of planes circling... they had trailing advertising banners -- what a great cover to hide their real intent...
Does this prevent an implementer from disclosing it to the agency itself? "The Investigatory Powers Bill would also make it a criminal offense, punishable with up to 12 months in prison and/or a fine, for anyone involved to reveal the existence of those backdoors, in any circumstances (Section 190(8).)"
It seems that every "smart" appliance has a lot of foolish thinking behind it.
AKA greed. I'd be surprised if I'm the only person who avoids companies that keep finding ways to get around ad blockers.
VENDORS: Wanna advertize to me? Do it DISCRETELY while I'm SEARCHING for YOUR product; and ONLY if you have a product I'm looking for; otherwise, you lose me as a customer/client. Want me to receive your ads? PAY *me*, not only the ad pushers!
Gotta wonder... would Pepsi, Coke and other "name brands" really lose much business if they stopped advertising? Or would their net profit increase by not wasting $$ on ads?
The original "non-tactile three dimensional (3D) user interface" was implemented as pairs of eyeballs, created by God and in public domain since at least day 6.
I agree with this. My solution to lazy eyes years ago was to keep the old pair as my reading glasses. This stopped the issue of my prescription needing to get stronger each time.
After being pressured into trying progressives, it took all of about 2 hours to return them.... The reasons included:
- chromatic aberration -- the driver in the car to my left was not a bearded guy; it was a woman!
Blues and reds separate as with a prism -- this is a lens material issue (glass, acrylic, polycarbonate,...) -- can cause center text to be clear while showing red/blue double-text at the edges.
- could not see the entire screen clearly -- used a dry-erase marker to draw circles on the lenses outlining the areas of clear text -- Surprise! I was looking through 1/4"-3/8" holes.
Other issues:
- many (most?) "reading" prescriptions are written for 16" focal distance -- you have to ask for _your_ preferred distance; mine is arms' length (32")
- curvature -- many reading glasses are provided with a different curvature than distance glasses -- it they feel like they are sucking your eyes out of their sockets; get a flatter lens.
- astigmatism (football shaped cornea) -- ensure this is included in your prescription AND make sure the lenses match the prescribed angles when you pick them up.
After 51 years wearing glasses, found more issues; but the above are the main ones for computer work.
At 18 in 1964, I was just a young guy who programmed the IBM 407 Accounting machine that was also installed with the AN/FSQ-7 in the Canadian underground NORAD headquarters in North Bay, Ontario. The program complexity on those machines was measured by how much the boards weighed. Lots of wires terminated with pins containing tiny metal balls (like hitch pins) to keep the pins from being pushed out when the board was inserted into the 407 to run whatever program its wiring instructed. Diodes were sometimes needed to prevent back-flow (that machine's source of bugs). Spent over 7 years in the "hole" with the huge Q-7. Nostalgia!
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Upgraded 4K to 16K... WOW! :D Punched holes in floppy jackets to double-side them.
In most (all?) states, Boards/Commissions can regulate LICENSED entities only. They can reprimand, fine in some cases, revoke licenses; BUT they must ask their Attorney General to enforce violations of law outside the Board's/Commission's jurisdiction, including "acting as a licensee". These organizations will sometimes exceed their statutory authority through ignorance of their state's laws. Slap down overreach where it exists...
Good grief! We were doing this in the early 60s when the carbon microphones in our headsets crapped out. Switching earpeice between ear & mouth gave us half vs full duplex comms too... :)
will finally solve the mystery of the light -- it's ON in order to see what's inside...
three times now. Even offered to handle the last ~800 from the road to no avail. Meanwhile Windstream keeps raising price -- now nearly $80 for a measly 6-Mbps.
Windstream provides a whopping(sic) 6-Mbps for nearing $80/mo. Cable internet crosses my driveway and every request for connection has been turned down because I'm too far off the road; even after my offer to take care of the last 700 feet...
"David Bismark has co-developed an electronic voting system that contains a simple and reliable method of verification." http://www.ted.com/talks/david...
working on putting ads on their smart TVs to waste time fixing their Windows 10 crap.
My 2 Samsung smart TVs will be permanently disconnected from the network if this happens -- the ultimate Ad Blocker...
Was in Baltimore on Monday and saw a couple of planes circling... they had trailing advertising banners -- what a great cover to hide their real intent...
Does this prevent an implementer from disclosing it to the agency itself? "The Investigatory Powers Bill would also make it a criminal offense, punishable with up to 12 months in prison and/or a fine, for anyone involved to reveal the existence of those backdoors, in any circumstances (Section 190(8).)"
It seems that every "smart" appliance has a lot of foolish thinking behind it.
AKA greed. I'd be surprised if I'm the only person who avoids companies that keep finding ways to get around ad blockers.
VENDORS: Wanna advertize to me? Do it DISCRETELY while I'm SEARCHING for YOUR product; and ONLY if you have a product I'm looking for; otherwise, you lose me as a customer/client. Want me to receive your ads? PAY *me*, not only the ad pushers!
Gotta wonder... would Pepsi, Coke and other "name brands" really lose much business if they stopped advertising? Or would their net profit increase by not wasting $$ on ads?
Abuse can be a 2-way street... I live alone, so the only voices are from Talk Radio -- on all day long... Hope they like listening too...
The original "non-tactile three dimensional (3D) user interface" was implemented as pairs of eyeballs, created by God and in public domain since at least day 6.
I agree with this. My solution to lazy eyes years ago was to keep the old pair as my reading glasses. This stopped the issue of my prescription needing to get stronger each time.
After being pressured into trying progressives, it took all of about 2 hours to return them.... The reasons included:
- chromatic aberration -- the driver in the car to my left was not a bearded guy; it was a woman!
Blues and reds separate as with a prism -- this is a lens material issue (glass, acrylic, polycarbonate,...) -- can cause center text to be clear while showing red/blue double-text at the edges.
- could not see the entire screen clearly -- used a dry-erase marker to draw circles on the lenses outlining the areas of clear text -- Surprise! I was looking through 1/4"-3/8" holes.
Other issues:
- many (most?) "reading" prescriptions are written for 16" focal distance -- you have to ask for _your_ preferred distance; mine is arms' length (32")
- curvature -- many reading glasses are provided with a different curvature than distance glasses -- it they feel like they are sucking your eyes out of their sockets; get a flatter lens.
- astigmatism (football shaped cornea) -- ensure this is included in your prescription AND make sure the lenses match the prescribed angles when you pick them up.
After 51 years wearing glasses, found more issues; but the above are the main ones for computer work.
At 18 in 1964, I was just a young guy who programmed the IBM 407 Accounting machine that was also installed with the AN/FSQ-7 in the Canadian underground NORAD headquarters in North Bay, Ontario. The program complexity on those machines was measured by how much the boards weighed. Lots of wires terminated with pins containing tiny metal balls (like hitch pins) to keep the pins from being pushed out when the board was inserted into the 407 to run whatever program its wiring instructed. Diodes were sometimes needed to prevent back-flow (that machine's source of bugs). Spent over 7 years in the "hole" with the huge Q-7. Nostalgia!
...promoted to his/her level of incompetence...