... for either the person submitting a story, or the editors, from hitting news.google.com and finding the same story somewhere OTHER than the goddamn NYT that turns story links into login forms.
The mandate makes absolutely no requirement that broadcasts be HD (High Def) - only that they stop using analog transmission and go to digital. The FCC's motiviation is to get a lot of spectum back, and MPAA/broadcasters motiviation is they get the 'do not copy' concept.
While I wouldnt mind if the spectrum was freed so that there could be some unlicensed bands to enable 802.11 style equipment for consumer use, I'm sure licenses for the newly freed TV bands will be auctioned off to megacorps instead. I'm just hoping that they dont just sit on them to prevent competition for high speed services.
Why do so many people confuse High Def and Digital - they are *NOT* the same thing, nor do they always go hand in hand.
You *CAN* broadcast HighDef in analog, and you *CAN* broadcast digital, and still be using standard definition (and if stations are forced go digital, it isnt all that likely that they will switch to HighDef)
The point is there are so many 'suspect devices' that the professionals are backlogged.
The object of this is to take a block of C4, and go blow the thing up, while keeping everyone safely away. SO WHAT if the RC blows it up early - then maybe they save the C4 for later. Or even if the rc car gets near the bomb, and it goes off - SO WHAT - so they lose a $1000 rc truck - much better than losing a person.
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FYI - slash does that on purpose. The wanting to use the URL can fix it up by hand.
I dont know about anywhere else, but in Michigan, if you dont have or qualify for a drivers license (or had it suspended, revoked, etc), you get a state photo ID (that isnt valid to drive with, but serves as proof of ID and/or age)
You arent allowed to have both (if you have a license, it serves as your ID)
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The *counting* portion of any voting system *MUST* be wide open, and subject to public scrutiny, and there *must* be a physical (paper being the most logical) record of an individuals vote, that *that* individual can verify correctly recorded their votes.
The mechanism used to *create* that paper record doesnt matter, so long as it remains in the posession of, and can be inspected by, the individual casting the vote, after it is created and before it is counted. It can be done by hand, or with the assistance of some ATM-like machine that then *PRINTS* the paper which neither does any counting, nor keeps any record of who is voting. In fact other than the printed output, it should keep no records whatsoever. It should not even know the identity of the voter.
The paper vote record itself, should also not have any sort of information which could identify *who* the voter is. The machine used to read and count the paper record *MUST* be open, auditable and its entire process and function must be fully and publically documented. After counting, the paper ballots should drop into a box, or otherwise be retained to allow for recounts.
Dont try to use a computer to teach writing - use a goddamn pencil and paper.
I'm a computer geek, linux geek, net geek, etc. But shoving more computers in classrooms, especially in the grades below about middle school, is a BAD idea.
Its a big rock that will be 80 million miles away from earth when they do this, what possible 'unsafe' scenario are you imagining from a big rock hitting a block of copper?
The sun itself(a monstrously huge ongoing nuclear reaction) is only 93 million miles away, and we seem reasonably safe from it.
You wouldnt send someone a TeX document anymore than you should send them a 'Word' document, unless you have specifically arranged with them that it should be in a specific format.
For general distribution, or to unknown recipients, you should send in something that is standard (and to be standard, it needs to be a documented format, 'DOC' fails that requirement) plain ascii text works, or if for some reason you need to control the appearance, postscript or PDF.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using it's proprietary format to exchange information by default.
The point of a database is to store data. If you need someone for end-users to access, then you need to write something. Generally, I find a php app works fantastically, and automatically gives web-accesibility as well (if desired)
God forbid that people might actually have some choices. Personally I dont use MS Office (or any other MS software or platforms), *OR* OpenOffice, because
1. The entire concept of a 'Word Processor' is stupid - http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
2. If I need a database, I'll use Mysql (Or PostgresSQL, etc)
3. On the (rare) occasion that I need to arrange numbers in a table, I use Gnumeric.
And breaking AT&T up, only eliminated the long distance monopoly. For local service, all it did was create a handfull of smaller monopolies.
AT&T owning *all* of the smaller monopolies (as SBC and Verizon have been climbing up to), is a bad thing, but it doesnt change that in a given exchange or city, or town, ownership and operation of the copper lines *is* a natural monopoly, and *should* be regulated. But provision of the calling services, doesnt have to be tied to that monopoly. - Google for 'structural seperation'.
This is one of the reasons why lots of small areas served by independent telco's are screwed - the regluators dont consider them a monoply, based on the total *number* of subscribers, while, while small, is still *ALL* of the subscribers in the areas they control, since those customers dont have any choice.
... and threatens a similar unregulated storm to the one that eventually caused the AT&T breakup.
Bzzzt. It wasnt lack of regulation that led to the AT&T breakup - it was lack of competition, eg AT&T was a monopoly, becuase land-based copper is inherently a geographic monopoly, and AT&T just bought up all the small companies. And once a given area was wired, the barriers to entry were just too high (eg, no one could afford to build out their own copper plant) *And*, the breakup did nothing about that geographic monopoly (at least as far as local service was concernerd).. It *did* eventually lead to the current state of long distance, where there is tons of competition (You hear ads for a new 10-10xxx company every few months), rates are low, and consumers are king.
There is *already* healthy competition in the VOIP industry, and even if larger players buy smaller ones, there is no inherent geographic monopoly to serve as a barrier to entry for new entrants.
Concerned parties should be more worried about the current state of broadband access, where current telco's and goliath cableco's are forming up a duopoly - one choice for cable, one choice for DSL, and wireless tech has lots of hurdles to clear (literally, getting LOS in a hilly area for more than 100ft is almost impossible)
I guess if you need to do that to avoid them, then power to you. I happen to be able to spot false emails without needing to do that. And to be honest, I've never received a bank phish with my real banks name on it (Its a small regional bank). I have however, received paypal and ebay ones (I have a legit account with both), and your tactic wouldnt work there, since its pretty much required to use email with both.
Wether your *bank* legitimately has your address is irrelevant.
Phish emails DONT COME FROM YOUE BANK, idiot. They go to huge numbers of scraped and bought addresses, by people who have no idea if they even have an account at your bank, in the hopes that some tiny fraction of them do, and are stupid enough to respond with their info.
1. Dont *EVER* use a link in an email to access any site that has anything to do with your money or your identity, or any other sort of information or accounts that should be kept secure.
2. If you get an email that appears to come from a bank/company that you have an account or other relationship with, *STILL* done use it - either go to the site directly by *TYPING IN BY HAND* the official address for it, or if the email somehow both precludes that and seems to require you to take immediate action, *CALL* the company or bank, and *ASK* them if its for real (And if it is, point out to them that they should avoid doing that, to avoid confusion with phisher emails)
I'd love to drive a car that got better gas milages - the only problem is that my budget limits me to 12-15 year old vehicles, and there just arent any hybrids/etc in that market.
The people who would most appreciate the gas savings are also the people least able to pay the exorbitant prices a 'new' car demands.
Someone needs to start making sub-$4000 vehicles that are worth buying.
I'd prefer to be behind a Prius over an SUV - you cant SEE around a damn SUV, so when the car ahead of the SUV slams its brakes on suddenly, you get no advance warning.
Merely using a cellphone isnt going to cause any explosions, unless there is already something wrong with the phone (eg, im sure if the phone *itself* exploded, due to some battery problem like the ones this article describes, while someone is filling their tank with gas, it might cause a problem)
(And FYI 1. I dont even own a color printer - I have a trusty old monochrome HP Laserjet II - and if a copy of a dollar bill I could print on that fooled someone, I could just as easily fool them with a blank peice of paper, and 2. If I *did* have the means and will to counterfeit money, I sure as hell wouldnt be posting advice on it to slashdot. Heck, I probably wouldnt be wasting my time reading slashdot at all)
Get a number of OSS organizations/communities together, and apprach all the mainstream wireless vendors with an offer for free advertising and/or status as the 'recommended' or even 'official' wireless vendor/brand for that organization/community to the first vendor to *fully* open their hardware and provide full free distribution rights to all required components/firmware/whatever. I'm sure there are at least some vendors who would be pleased as punch to have places like slashdot recommending them.
I am referring to whatever lights people like to put on their cars, that are *not* aimed at the ground and/or are at least as bright as highbeams, that they *think* are foglights (or 'driving lights' - there is no such thing - the only 'driving light' for on road use are more commonly referred to as 'headlights' anything else would be 'OFF ROAD driving lights'), and that they keep on all the time even on a completely clear night.
As far as yellow/white, white lights dont do much in fog other than create more glare anyway. Anyone who thinks white 'fog' lights do any good is a fool.
Regardless, on a clear (nonfoggy) night, when there is other traffic oncoming and/or aheead of you, the only bright white lights you should have illuminated are your normal low-beam headlights (And if you have an SUV or a 'huge' pickup truck, you should rip them off their typical placement and remount them at the same height as everyone elses lights - take a look at how/where semi headlights are for an example)
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The mandate makes absolutely no requirement that broadcasts be HD (High Def) - only that they stop using analog transmission and go to digital. The FCC's motiviation is to get a lot of spectum back, and MPAA/broadcasters motiviation is they get the 'do not copy' concept.
While I wouldnt mind if the spectrum was freed so that there could be some unlicensed bands to enable 802.11 style equipment for consumer use, I'm sure licenses for the newly freed TV bands will be auctioned off to megacorps instead. I'm just hoping that they dont just sit on them to prevent competition for high speed services.
Why do so many people confuse High Def and Digital - they are *NOT* the same thing, nor do they always go hand in hand.
You *CAN* broadcast HighDef in analog, and you *CAN* broadcast digital, and still be using standard definition (and if stations are forced go digital, it isnt all that likely that they will switch to HighDef)
The point is there are so many 'suspect devices' that the professionals are backlogged.
The object of this is to take a block of C4, and go blow the thing up, while keeping everyone safely away. SO WHAT if the RC blows it up early - then maybe they save the C4 for later. Or even if the rc car gets near the bomb, and it goes off - SO WHAT - so they lose a $1000 rc truck - much better than losing a person.
FYI - slash does that on purpose. The wanting to use the URL can fix it up by hand.
Or, you can go the whole A HREF route
The point is to save you the trouble of opening the laptop if there is *NO* wap in range.
I dont know about anywhere else, but in Michigan, if you dont have or qualify for a drivers license (or had it suspended, revoked, etc), you get a state photo ID (that isnt valid to drive with, but serves as proof of ID and/or age)
You arent allowed to have both (if you have a license, it serves as your ID)
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The *counting* portion of any voting system *MUST* be wide open, and subject to public scrutiny, and there *must* be a physical (paper being the most logical) record of an individuals vote, that *that* individual can verify correctly recorded their votes.
The mechanism used to *create* that paper record doesnt matter, so long as it remains in the posession of, and can be inspected by, the individual casting the vote, after it is created and before it is counted. It can be done by hand, or with the assistance of some ATM-like machine that then *PRINTS* the paper which neither does any counting, nor keeps any record of who is voting. In fact other than the printed output, it should keep no records whatsoever. It should not even know the identity of the voter.
The paper vote record itself, should also not have any sort of information which could identify *who* the voter is. The machine used to read and count the paper record *MUST* be open, auditable and its entire process and function must be fully and publically documented. After counting, the paper ballots should drop into a box, or otherwise be retained to allow for recounts.
Sure it does (have a solution).
Dont try to use a computer to teach writing - use a goddamn pencil and paper.
I'm a computer geek, linux geek, net geek, etc. But shoving more computers in classrooms, especially in the grades below about middle school, is a BAD idea.
Safe for who, the little green men living on it?
Its a big rock that will be 80 million miles away from earth when they do this, what possible 'unsafe' scenario are you imagining from a big rock hitting a block of copper?
The sun itself(a monstrously huge ongoing nuclear reaction) is only 93 million miles away, and we seem reasonably safe from it.
You wouldnt send someone a TeX document anymore than you should send them a 'Word' document, unless you have specifically arranged with them that it should be in a specific format.
For general distribution, or to unknown recipients, you should send in something that is standard (and to be standard, it needs to be a documented format, 'DOC' fails that requirement) plain ascii text works, or if for some reason you need to control the appearance, postscript or PDF.
The big problem is people *assuming* everyone has MS-Word, and using it's proprietary format to exchange information by default.
IMNSHO, if it doesnt need something like TeX, then plain text is sufficient.
The point of a database is to store data. If you need someone for end-users to access, then you need to write something. Generally, I find a php app works fantastically, and automatically gives web-accesibility as well (if desired)
God forbid that people might actually have some choices. Personally I dont use MS Office (or any other MS software or platforms), *OR* OpenOffice, because
1. The entire concept of a 'Word Processor' is stupid - http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html
2. If I need a database, I'll use Mysql (Or PostgresSQL, etc)
3. On the (rare) occasion that I need to arrange numbers in a table, I use Gnumeric.
And breaking AT&T up, only eliminated the long distance monopoly. For local service, all it did was create a handfull of smaller monopolies.
AT&T owning *all* of the smaller monopolies (as SBC and Verizon have been climbing up to), is a bad thing, but it doesnt change that in a given exchange or city, or town, ownership and operation of the copper lines *is* a natural monopoly, and *should* be regulated. But provision of the calling services, doesnt have to be tied to that monopoly. - Google for 'structural seperation'.
This is one of the reasons why lots of small areas served by independent telco's are screwed - the regluators dont consider them a monoply, based on the total *number* of subscribers, while, while small, is still *ALL* of the subscribers in the areas they control, since those customers dont have any choice.
Bzzzt. It wasnt lack of regulation that led to the AT&T breakup - it was lack of competition, eg AT&T was a monopoly, becuase land-based copper is inherently a geographic monopoly, and AT&T just bought up all the small companies. And once a given area was wired, the barriers to entry were just too high (eg, no one could afford to build out their own copper plant) *And*, the breakup did nothing about that geographic monopoly (at least as far as local service was concernerd).. It *did* eventually lead to the current state of long distance, where there is tons of competition (You hear ads for a new 10-10xxx company every few months), rates are low, and consumers are king.
There is *already* healthy competition in the VOIP industry, and even if larger players buy smaller ones, there is no inherent geographic monopoly to serve as a barrier to entry for new entrants.
Concerned parties should be more worried about the current state of broadband access, where current telco's and goliath cableco's are forming up a duopoly - one choice for cable, one choice for DSL, and wireless tech has lots of hurdles to clear (literally, getting LOS in a hilly area for more than 100ft is almost impossible)
I guess if you need to do that to avoid them, then power to you. I happen to be able to spot false emails without needing to do that. And to be honest, I've never received a bank phish with my real banks name on it (Its a small regional bank). I have however, received paypal and ebay ones (I have a legit account with both), and your tactic wouldnt work there, since its pretty much required to use email with both.
Wether your *bank* legitimately has your address is irrelevant.
Phish emails DONT COME FROM YOUE BANK, idiot. They go to huge numbers of scraped and bought addresses, by people who have no idea if they even have an account at your bank, in the hopes that some tiny fraction of them do, and are stupid enough to respond with their info.
1. Dont *EVER* use a link in an email to access any site that has anything to do with your money or your identity, or any other sort of information or accounts that should be kept secure.
2. If you get an email that appears to come from a bank/company that you have an account or other relationship with, *STILL* done use it - either go to the site directly by *TYPING IN BY HAND* the official address for it, or if the email somehow both precludes that and seems to require you to take immediate action, *CALL* the company or bank, and *ASK* them if its for real (And if it is, point out to them that they should avoid doing that, to avoid confusion with phisher emails)
I'd love to drive a car that got better gas milages - the only problem is that my budget limits me to 12-15 year old vehicles, and there just arent any hybrids/etc in that market.
The people who would most appreciate the gas savings are also the people least able to pay the exorbitant prices a 'new' car demands.
Someone needs to start making sub-$4000 vehicles that are worth buying.
I'd prefer to be behind a Prius over an SUV - you cant SEE around a damn SUV, so when the car ahead of the SUV slams its brakes on suddenly, you get no advance warning.
I can vouch for this - I saw the same episode.
Merely using a cellphone isnt going to cause any explosions, unless there is already something wrong with the phone (eg, im sure if the phone *itself* exploded, due to some battery problem like the ones this article describes, while someone is filling their tank with gas, it might cause a problem)
Yes, they'd have to find you first.
(And FYI 1. I dont even own a color printer - I have a trusty old monochrome HP Laserjet II - and if a copy of a dollar bill I could print on that fooled someone, I could just as easily fool them with a blank peice of paper, and 2. If I *did* have the means and will to counterfeit money, I sure as hell wouldnt be posting advice on it to slashdot. Heck, I probably wouldnt be wasting my time reading slashdot at all)
So buy a used one. Be sure not to leave your name or phone number with whoever you buy it from.
Get a number of OSS organizations/communities together, and apprach all the mainstream wireless vendors with an offer for free advertising and/or status as the 'recommended' or even 'official' wireless vendor/brand for that organization/community to the first vendor to *fully* open their hardware and provide full free distribution rights to all required components/firmware/whatever. I'm sure there are at least some vendors who would be pleased as punch to have places like slashdot recommending them.
I am referring to whatever lights people like to put on their cars, that are *not* aimed at the ground and/or are at least as bright as highbeams, that they *think* are foglights (or 'driving lights' - there is no such thing - the only 'driving light' for on road use are more commonly referred to as 'headlights' anything else would be 'OFF ROAD driving lights'), and that they keep on all the time even on a completely clear night.
As far as yellow/white, white lights dont do much in fog other than create more glare anyway. Anyone who thinks white 'fog' lights do any good is a fool.
Regardless, on a clear (nonfoggy) night, when there is other traffic oncoming and/or aheead of you, the only bright white lights you should have illuminated are your normal low-beam headlights (And if you have an SUV or a 'huge' pickup truck, you should rip them off their typical placement and remount them at the same height as everyone elses lights - take a look at how/where semi headlights are for an example)
Or if you've ever had one oncoming to you, regardless of what you are driving.