Actually, our callico is fond of giving us Rabbit Asses. Never the front half of bunny... always, and only the ass.
Our fat one brings home frogs, toads, and slugs. The frogs and toads... he catches. "Honey... do you feel like we're being watched?" "Oh #$% there's a frog under the TV!" The slugs... appear to run him down and catch *him*.
Our grey one brings home birds and chipmonks, and the occasional mouse/mole.
Our deaf one doesn't bring home anything, but damn he sure tries. He *does* do a good job of killing any live things that the others release.
...and, they're 64k color! Not that 4bit (and 1bit, and monochrome) crap we're stuck with, now.
DB - Monochrome white, analog processor, no soundcard (deaf), 17lb portable unit, batteries are good for an hour, and take 8 hours to recharge. Bugsy - Monochrome grey, analog processor with "Boss 1.0" package, 8lb mobile unit, optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, optional "food vacuum" upgrade, batteries are good for 20 minutes, take 14 hours to recharge. Fatty - 1bit greyscale(grey/white), analog processor with "big poop" technology, 19lb luggable. Optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, batteries good for an hour, and take 11 hours to recharge. Murrey - 2bit indexed greyscale (black/white/grey/grey), analog processor with TV watching capability, 13lb portable. Batteries good for one hour, and take 9 hours to recharge. Curmie - 2bit indexed color (black/white/orange), analog processor with "mood pack" and "bitch++" enhancements, 12lb portable. Optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, batteries good for two hours, take 4 hours to recharge.:)
> this technology puts us half-way to showing how an infinite number of monkeys with in an infinite amount of time could create all possible literary works,
Not just literary. Sadly, there is NO SUCH THING as infinite time. Hence, Vista will be delayed again.
The "hell" is that the $%^bag said he'd stop sending spam, and *start* sending exploits. And as Blue said, they do NOT have the authority to "opt-in" their userbase for such a thing.
It's a sad day... and the repercussions even moreso.
That's not exactly correct - your analogy treats a photon stream as a "ball on a string" being swung around your head.
A given photon, however, is not tethered... and it has no lateral velocity as you spin the laser. The proper analog would be a stream of water... it doesn't matter how you spin and rotate the nozzle, each drop travels in a straight path. In this same way, you can change the direction of your laser as quickly as you wish; you're not creating any additional velocity, you're merely changing the direction in which they are emitted - and this change in direction propagates through space just like anything else.
Exactly my question... albiet this is strictly semantics, and may be a product of trying to describe the event in simple english. If we define this leading edge to be a BIT... then I can string 8N1 of them together, and I've now got a rather nice medium for "information". Yes, they do appear to be playing the (now classic) "phase" game... but if that phase change can be modulated, then...
First, avoid suggestions about ignoring these people. This will simply get you labeled as unreliable.
Instead, simply state - "I have no free time for free work anymore... so my free time now costs $x00 per hour in one hour increments. What time would you like me to show up?"
You can sugar coat it all you like, but this MUST be the bottom line, and you must be verbose about it. You simply do NOT have any free time anymore. Literally.
Unless they are willing to trade some of THEIR time for these domestic chores, etc... stranger things have happened, after all... and once you've placed your cards on the table, your friend might quite like the idea of reciprocation. I once got paid in lawn mowings, for example.:)
Actually, the text refers to making a copy of the transmission.
In my book, that includes all protocol overhead - the TCP, IP, ethernet, and anything else that's required for the transmission to take place. By the time the data hits Userland... it aint a transmission anymore. Basically, the proposed law states that streamers need to take steps to stop things like Ethereal, PacketMon, et al, from writing a capture to disk.
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i went to look at the cute suzy^H^H^H sushe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H those drives and like the web site has been hacked by those slash dotters! OMFG! LOL! can they really do that!
Uh, FEBRUARY. You couldn't torch that canopy if you gassed it... not that there was a canopy; any fuel load there was too sparse to spread, never mind the moisture content.
We do, but it's different - our county dispatch uses a "Box" system. It's fairly cool.
You draw polygons on a map, and assign it a "box number"... think of a "box" as a mail-slot, not a shape:) That box contains a sequence of response pre-plans for the various incident types - and you assign itto that specific location. A polygon can cover an entire neighborhood; it can likewise cover exactly a single house. Meanwhile, you can also assign the same box to several different polygons. It makes life very, very easy.
Our department uses four digit box numbers; we have two stations, so the first digit indicates which station will be first-due. The second digit indicates the incident type, and if the area is hydranted or not; the third indicates the type of structure (for fire) or roadway (accident), etc, and the fourth indicates the area - commercial, residential, apartments, farm, etc.
Attached to each box is the response pre-plan... called "alarms". Alarms are simply resource requests; For us, 1st alarm (the initial dispatch) will request certain pieces to a given incident. 2nd alarm... other pieces. 3rd alarm... others, still. 4th and 5th are typically manpower on fire boxes, or specialty rescue teams or equipment for other incident types - 4th alarm on a rescue box, for example, always starts a high-angle rope team. 5th alarm on a rescue box starts the dive team. 6th alarm on a fire box always starts an assload of water tankers, for cases where the local water is inadequate or frozen.
Obviously, alarms are not usually raised in sequence - if an idiot falls off a cliff and needs rescue, the result will be first-due raising alarms 2 and 4. An idiot drives his snowmobile through the ice, it'll be a rescue - with the first-due raising alarms 5 and 7 (sheriff heli).
Granted, that's here. Somewhere else, a fifth alarm might well be "drain the county"... but at that point, you might be better off requesting a bulldozer.
That's not how alarms work; they do not need to be triggered "in sequence".
An alarm is merely a resource request, and (in many places) is part of a pre-planned response. This pre-planning varies by area, and incident type - meaning if I raise a "2nd alarm" at this house, I may get an entirely *different* response from a 2nd alarm at *that* house. Typically, we sort-of arrange them as a sequence of escallation, but not necessarily.
In our district, we've uniformly made certain that, regardless of which pre-plan is being used - our "sixth alarm" will start enough water-tankers to sustain an engine flowing 2500 gallons per minute. And as you just guessed, any actual fire we get - as soon as first-due has confirmed "smoke showing" in a non-hydrant area, their first act is to request the 6th alarm, since some of the neighboring tankers might be 20 minutes away. After the crew has completed a quick size-up of the situation, THEN they might consider raising a 2nd alarm OR a 3rd, if it is waranted - our first alarm will bring two engines and a truck; second alarm brings an additional engine and a truck; third alarm brings two additional engines. Fourth and Fifth are manpower.
So, a single floor stick frame in a non-hydrant area has a bread-n-butter fire. First due arrives, confirms smoke and requests a sixth alarm, and initiates a size-up of the incident. After looking around and peeking into a couple of windows, an actual fire is confirmed, but it appears to be room & contents - not structural. Single floor dwelling - one truck is overkill. We need engines, so the 3rd alarm is requested.
That's a typical evolution... alarms 1, 3, and 6. Others, you'll have alarms 1, 2 and 4. Or, 1 and 4. Or, 1 and 6.
I think I read some details on that fire - the fire was through the roof when first-due rolled on-scene. Generally, if the fire has self-vented in all but a few specific types of construction - such a structure is considered a loser unless there are intact firewalls running all the way up to the peak, which is unlikely in a residence. Combine that with truss construction and engineered wood products (and this structure definately had trussing), the structure is automatically a write-off. With truss or engineered wood construction, crews are typically forbidden from entering the structure after 10 minutes of fire unless (1) there is a victim inside, AND (2) there's a prayer of saving them... and even then, we'll honestly consider if it's worth the risk, based on the time that has elapsed. Truss + Fire = 12 minute "roof falls onto you" deathtrap, and EWood + Fire = 4 minute "floor falls under you" deathtrap, period, no exceptions.
That's why, like you, I'm almost baffled that the police chased this idiot inside - but from the size of the structure in the video, half of the building could be flashing over while at the other end of it, you'd never know it. With a smaller structure, he'd not have gotten two steps into the door and still be able to see, let alone breathe all of the phosgene & methal-ethyl-kills-you shit in the air. Since neither he nor the cops needed rescue, it pretty much demands that "when fire crews arrived" the fire was at one end of the house (the end farthest away from the platform truck, judging by the extent of the burn there), and he was running into the near-end, which wasn't involved (or smoke filled) yet. That the fire vented itself so quickly is probably a major factor as to why the rest of the structure wasn't a lethal atmosphere, as well.
For your own fun - shooting the water over the trees wasn't really relevent; by the time you use a master stream (such as from the platform in the video) - those things flow anywhere from 1500 to 2500 gallons per minute - it's over.
Why, you ask?
One gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. Our truck is rated at 2500 GPM; from a draft, it can (real life) sustain around 2200 GPM; that's 17 thousand, 600 pounds of weight per minute that we're dumping onto the floor of that structure. A typical stream like that will be flowed for up to 5 or 10 minutes, since you're trying to suppress fire on the ceiling and walls - and most of the water is on the floor, in a structure that's already (heavily) compromised... and actively being further compromised, to boot. Five minutes... 88 thousand pounds, 44 tons of weight... that's like having, what, about 30 cars parked on that floor? Even if we do succeed in knocking down the fire, the odds of the structure surviving US is small, at best... and that's one master stream. If placement allows, we'll use two, plus (if warranted) a portable from the ground, shooting into a window.
So, apparatus placement didn't help much, as you said - but using THAT specific piece is typically a "fat lady singing" move when a residence is involved; the trusses (what few are left) in the video are a dead giveaway. A fire in that type of construction... first alarm should bring two engines and a truck; second alarm should bring an additional engine and truck (and water supply, if needed); third alarm brings coffee; fourth alarm brings donuts; fifth alarm brings pizza and fresh cell phone batteries - because if the first alarm crew couldn't nail it, it's moot. Steel Trussing sucks; Wood Trussing really, really sucks; the only thing worse is Engineered Wood.
For what it's worth, we have several similarly *stupid* houses in our district, that have little or no access for truck or engine placement - some, you cannot even fit a freakin E-One up the driveway, let alone a stick or platform truck. For those, we've added a trailer to our Mini brush-truck; 1500 feet of supply line, a bunch of gated water-theives, and four attack lines. If WE get stuck with a fire in such a place, our initial alarm will
The best by far is ZomboCom, hands down. It sums up all that is perfect with non-ugly sites, and is also the epitomy of the classic.com bubble-site. I'm certain it would take the article's author completely by surpise to learn that Zombo doesn't make any money, and I'm sure it'd be a good two years for the author to figure out *why*.
Actually, after reading the article... I am left with the distasteful impression that the author is one of those f*ing morons who uses FLASH for everything, and PDFs for everything else.
Would you like to: 1 - Continue the authentication process so that you can send an e-mail to our automated response system for help, 2 - Visit http://www.americanheart.org/ for some quick tips on surviving a heart attack, 3 - Launch the interactive Self-Administered CPR training wizard, 4 - See more options?
The part that you left out, additionally, is that this lack of talent is exactly what the public wanted.
We want 6 cents per minute? 5? 3? 2? People aren't free - and you know full well how much a *competent* lineman or switchman costs. Given the promise of an automated "smart" system that is run by monkeys, or a legacy labor-intensive, skill-based system that requires "experience" (e.g. TIME)... Cheap, Fast, Correct: Guess which two we (the customers) picked.
In short, we're getting exactly what we were willing to pay for (external forces aside, such as MCI cooking their books, thereby causing market reactions to a fictional situation, etc).
Freedom of speech has absolutely NOTHING to do with initiating a packet stream that has an undesired, and specifically forbidden (by me) impact on my network, server hardware, and client hardware. Think of it that way... and spam becomes just another network attack, especially when techniques are used to defeat "anti-spam" enforcement.
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Actually, our callico is fond of giving us Rabbit Asses. Never the front half of bunny... always, and only the ass.
. htm
Our fat one brings home frogs, toads, and slugs. The frogs and toads... he catches. "Honey... do you feel like we're being watched?" "Oh #$% there's a frog under the TV!" The slugs... appear to run him down and catch *him*.
Our grey one brings home birds and chipmonks, and the occasional mouse/mole.
Our deaf one doesn't bring home anything, but damn he sure tries. He *does* do a good job of killing any live things that the others release.
All of these "gifts" are trivially mitigated with a Flo Control Device, if you do not want them.
http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Watch/flo_watch
...and, they're 64k color! Not that 4bit (and 1bit, and monochrome) crap we're stuck with, now.
:)
DB - Monochrome white, analog processor, no soundcard (deaf), 17lb portable unit, batteries are good for an hour, and take 8 hours to recharge.
Bugsy - Monochrome grey, analog processor with "Boss 1.0" package, 8lb mobile unit, optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, optional "food vacuum" upgrade, batteries are good for 20 minutes, take 14 hours to recharge.
Fatty - 1bit greyscale(grey/white), analog processor with "big poop" technology, 19lb luggable. Optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, batteries good for an hour, and take 11 hours to recharge.
Murrey - 2bit indexed greyscale (black/white/grey/grey), analog processor with TV watching capability, 13lb portable. Batteries good for one hour, and take 9 hours to recharge.
Curmie - 2bit indexed color (black/white/orange), analog processor with "mood pack" and "bitch++" enhancements, 12lb portable. Optional "opposable thumbs" upgrade, batteries good for two hours, take 4 hours to recharge.
The other irony -
m etaname=alldoc&query=litchfield+oracle&x=26&y=7
Ths, coming from Oracle... who Litchfield has been bashing non-stop, for NOT patching holes for years -
http://search.securityfocus.com/swsearch?sbm=%2F&
> this technology puts us half-way to showing how an infinite number of monkeys with in an infinite amount of time could create all possible literary works,
Not just literary. Sadly, there is NO SUCH THING as infinite time. Hence, Vista will be delayed again.
... Vista.
The "hell" is that the $%^bag said he'd stop sending spam, and *start* sending exploits. And as Blue said, they do NOT have the authority to "opt-in" their userbase for such a thing.
It's a sad day... and the repercussions even moreso.
That's not exactly correct - your analogy treats a photon stream as a "ball on a string" being swung around your head.
A given photon, however, is not tethered... and it has no lateral velocity as you spin the laser. The proper analog would be a stream of water... it doesn't matter how you spin and rotate the nozzle, each drop travels in a straight path. In this same way, you can change the direction of your laser as quickly as you wish; you're not creating any additional velocity, you're merely changing the direction in which they are emitted - and this change in direction propagates through space just like anything else.
Exactly my question... albiet this is strictly semantics, and may be a product of trying to describe the event in simple english. If we define this leading edge to be a BIT... then I can string 8N1 of them together, and I've now got a rather nice medium for "information". Yes, they do appear to be playing the (now classic) "phase" game... but if that phase change can be modulated, then...
First, avoid suggestions about ignoring these people. This will simply get you labeled as unreliable.
:)
Instead, simply state - "I have no free time for free work anymore... so my free time now costs $x00 per hour in one hour increments. What time would you like me to show up?"
You can sugar coat it all you like, but this MUST be the bottom line, and you must be verbose about it. You simply do NOT have any free time anymore. Literally.
Unless they are willing to trade some of THEIR time for these domestic chores, etc... stranger things have happened, after all... and once you've placed your cards on the table, your friend might quite like the idea of reciprocation. I once got paid in lawn mowings, for example.
Hope things work out for ya -
- sbb
Actually, the text refers to making a copy of the transmission.
In my book, that includes all protocol overhead - the TCP, IP, ethernet, and anything else that's required for the transmission to take place. By the time the data hits Userland... it aint a transmission anymore. Basically, the proposed law states that streamers need to take steps to stop things like Ethereal, PacketMon, et al, from writing a capture to disk.
After all, Words Mean Things.
TFA is useless! No kittens! No ponies! No fluffies!
You mean,
print "KITTENS!"
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i went to look at the cute suzy^H^H^H sushe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H those drives and like the web site has been hacked by those slash dotters! OMFG! LOL! can they really do that!
is because the "missing" half of the crew will actually be outsourced to India.
Uh, FEBRUARY. You couldn't torch that canopy if you gassed it... not that there was a canopy; any fuel load there was too sparse to spread, never mind the moisture content.
We do, but it's different - our county dispatch uses a "Box" system. It's fairly cool.
:) That box contains a sequence of response pre-plans for the various incident types - and you assign itto that specific location. A polygon can cover an entire neighborhood; it can likewise cover exactly a single house. Meanwhile, you can also assign the same box to several different polygons. It makes life very, very easy.
You draw polygons on a map, and assign it a "box number"... think of a "box" as a mail-slot, not a shape
Our department uses four digit box numbers; we have two stations, so the first digit indicates which station will be first-due. The second digit indicates the incident type, and if the area is hydranted or not; the third indicates the type of structure (for fire) or roadway (accident), etc, and the fourth indicates the area - commercial, residential, apartments, farm, etc.
Attached to each box is the response pre-plan... called "alarms". Alarms are simply resource requests; For us, 1st alarm (the initial dispatch) will request certain pieces to a given incident. 2nd alarm... other pieces. 3rd alarm... others, still. 4th and 5th are typically manpower on fire boxes, or specialty rescue teams or equipment for other incident types - 4th alarm on a rescue box, for example, always starts a high-angle rope team. 5th alarm on a rescue box starts the dive team. 6th alarm on a fire box always starts an assload of water tankers, for cases where the local water is inadequate or frozen.
Obviously, alarms are not usually raised in sequence - if an idiot falls off a cliff and needs rescue, the result will be first-due raising alarms 2 and 4. An idiot drives his snowmobile through the ice, it'll be a rescue - with the first-due raising alarms 5 and 7 (sheriff heli).
Granted, that's here. Somewhere else, a fifth alarm might well be "drain the county"... but at that point, you might be better off requesting a bulldozer.
That's not how alarms work; they do not need to be triggered "in sequence".
An alarm is merely a resource request, and (in many places) is part of a pre-planned response. This pre-planning varies by area, and incident type - meaning if I raise a "2nd alarm" at this house, I may get an entirely *different* response from a 2nd alarm at *that* house. Typically, we sort-of arrange them as a sequence of escallation, but not necessarily.
In our district, we've uniformly made certain that, regardless of which pre-plan is being used - our "sixth alarm" will start enough water-tankers to sustain an engine flowing 2500 gallons per minute. And as you just guessed, any actual fire we get - as soon as first-due has confirmed "smoke showing" in a non-hydrant area, their first act is to request the 6th alarm, since some of the neighboring tankers might be 20 minutes away. After the crew has completed a quick size-up of the situation, THEN they might consider raising a 2nd alarm OR a 3rd, if it is waranted - our first alarm will bring two engines and a truck; second alarm brings an additional engine and a truck; third alarm brings two additional engines. Fourth and Fifth are manpower.
So, a single floor stick frame in a non-hydrant area has a bread-n-butter fire. First due arrives, confirms smoke and requests a sixth alarm, and initiates a size-up of the incident. After looking around and peeking into a couple of windows, an actual fire is confirmed, but it appears to be room & contents - not structural. Single floor dwelling - one truck is overkill. We need engines, so the 3rd alarm is requested.
That's a typical evolution... alarms 1, 3, and 6. Others, you'll have alarms 1, 2 and 4. Or, 1 and 4. Or, 1 and 6.
What's the 9th alarm, you ask?
Food!
I think I read some details on that fire - the fire was through the roof when first-due rolled on-scene. Generally, if the fire has self-vented in all but a few specific types of construction - such a structure is considered a loser unless there are intact firewalls running all the way up to the peak, which is unlikely in a residence. Combine that with truss construction and engineered wood products (and this structure definately had trussing), the structure is automatically a write-off. With truss or engineered wood construction, crews are typically forbidden from entering the structure after 10 minutes of fire unless (1) there is a victim inside, AND (2) there's a prayer of saving them... and even then, we'll honestly consider if it's worth the risk, based on the time that has elapsed. Truss + Fire = 12 minute "roof falls onto you" deathtrap, and EWood + Fire = 4 minute "floor falls under you" deathtrap, period, no exceptions.
That's why, like you, I'm almost baffled that the police chased this idiot inside - but from the size of the structure in the video, half of the building could be flashing over while at the other end of it, you'd never know it. With a smaller structure, he'd not have gotten two steps into the door and still be able to see, let alone breathe all of the phosgene & methal-ethyl-kills-you shit in the air. Since neither he nor the cops needed rescue, it pretty much demands that "when fire crews arrived" the fire was at one end of the house (the end farthest away from the platform truck, judging by the extent of the burn there), and he was running into the near-end, which wasn't involved (or smoke filled) yet. That the fire vented itself so quickly is probably a major factor as to why the rest of the structure wasn't a lethal atmosphere, as well.
For your own fun - shooting the water over the trees wasn't really relevent; by the time you use a master stream (such as from the platform in the video) - those things flow anywhere from 1500 to 2500 gallons per minute - it's over.
Why, you ask?
One gallon of water weighs 8 pounds. Our truck is rated at 2500 GPM; from a draft, it can (real life) sustain around 2200 GPM; that's 17 thousand, 600 pounds of weight per minute that we're dumping onto the floor of that structure. A typical stream like that will be flowed for up to 5 or 10 minutes, since you're trying to suppress fire on the ceiling and walls - and most of the water is on the floor, in a structure that's already (heavily) compromised... and actively being further compromised, to boot. Five minutes... 88 thousand pounds, 44 tons of weight... that's like having, what, about 30 cars parked on that floor? Even if we do succeed in knocking down the fire, the odds of the structure surviving US is small, at best... and that's one master stream. If placement allows, we'll use two, plus (if warranted) a portable from the ground, shooting into a window.
So, apparatus placement didn't help much, as you said - but using THAT specific piece is typically a "fat lady singing" move when a residence is involved; the trusses (what few are left) in the video are a dead giveaway. A fire in that type of construction... first alarm should bring two engines and a truck; second alarm should bring an additional engine and truck (and water supply, if needed); third alarm brings coffee; fourth alarm brings donuts; fifth alarm brings pizza and fresh cell phone batteries - because if the first alarm crew couldn't nail it, it's moot. Steel Trussing sucks; Wood Trussing really, really sucks; the only thing worse is Engineered Wood.
For what it's worth, we have several similarly *stupid* houses in our district, that have little or no access for truck or engine placement - some, you cannot even fit a freakin E-One up the driveway, let alone a stick or platform truck. For those, we've added a trailer to our Mini brush-truck; 1500 feet of supply line, a bunch of gated water-theives, and four attack lines. If WE get stuck with a fire in such a place, our initial alarm will
The epitomy of beauty:
The best by far is ZomboCom, hands down. It sums up all that is perfect with non-ugly sites, and is also the epitomy of the classic .com bubble-site. I'm certain it would take the article's author completely by surpise to learn that Zombo doesn't make any money, and I'm sure it'd be a good two years for the author to figure out *why*.
Actually, after reading the article... I am left with the distasteful impression that the author is one of those f*ing morons who uses FLASH for everything, and PDFs for everything else.
...it's patented.
And, thus sayeth Clippy:
It looks like you're having a heart attack!
Would you like to:
1 - Continue the authentication process so that you can send an e-mail to our automated response system for help,
2 - Visit http://www.americanheart.org/ for some quick tips on surviving a heart attack,
3 - Launch the interactive Self-Administered CPR training wizard,
4 - See more options?
Well said.
The part that you left out, additionally, is that this lack of talent is exactly what the public wanted.
We want 6 cents per minute? 5? 3? 2? People aren't free - and you know full well how much a *competent* lineman or switchman costs. Given the promise of an automated "smart" system that is run by monkeys, or a legacy labor-intensive, skill-based system that requires "experience" (e.g. TIME)... Cheap, Fast, Correct: Guess which two we (the customers) picked.
In short, we're getting exactly what we were willing to pay for (external forces aside, such as MCI cooking their books, thereby causing market reactions to a fictional situation, etc).
Yes? No? Maybe?
Unless you're one of the virgins, that is.
And remember... this is slashdot.
Freedom of speech has absolutely NOTHING to do with initiating a packet stream that has an undesired, and specifically forbidden (by me) impact on my network, server hardware, and client hardware. Think of it that way... and spam becomes just another network attack, especially when techniques are used to defeat "anti-spam" enforcement.