I see no problem what so ever using this kind of technology with kids. Under the age of 18, I feel that a parent and school has every right to know where a student is. The school is legally responsible for the child when there and the parents have an obligation to make sure their child is attending school.
Is it perfect, heck no. But this is not a huge issue. Once someone turns 18 and is a legally responsible adult, that is a different story, IMHO.
The 68.8% swing county is very easy. It is Baker county. Most of the county has been registered Democrat for decades. Everyone in office there is Democrat. However, they are the staunch old style Southern Democrats. This county has, since Reagan, always gone heavily Republican in state and national contests. They voted about the same percentage in the Senate race too. To try to blame it on the Op-scans is just a case of someone not taking time to look at the voting and political history of a county. Some of the folks writing these articles need to actualy try to do some real journalisim and research the past history instead of making idiotic assumptions.
Part of the reason for the protest has been that the power utilities have been very poor in the manner they respond to RFI complaints caused by their equipment . With that being a fact, why should hams trust that the utilities will do any better with BPL.
BPL can work, however, as it is being proposed, it is not setup to properly protect the liscensed users of the bandwidth that these systems will be radiating in. The power companies are lobbying to put in the system that requires them to do the least amount of work. Not a single one has proposed a system that would mitigate their response.
The United Power Line Council recently showed it had no real arguments against the hams cases when it responded to FCC comments by saying they were the true experts and "not a misinformed set of armchair amateurs that still use vacuum tube transmitters." Wow, name calling in a document submitted to the FCC. The simple fact is that they have not been able to refute the technical arguments. They are now trying to buy influence and namecall in order to get their way.
Depending on what the FCC does, they can trump that with an order. They do that with Sattelite Dishes for DishTV and DirecTV. Many apartment complexes had rules that prohibited all dishes. Now they must make reasonable accomodations for dishes.
Why should everything be given to the internet and IP protocol? TCP/IP sucks. There are a lot of better ways of doing it. The whole internet needs to be dergulated and let the best protocol win out.
Sarcasam aside, RF is not a bubble. Internet is not the be all end all. The internet is not going to solve everything. We all know how well the internet works when a core router goes down. Anyone who wants to be the farm on the internet will end up looking for a new place to live. Spectrum needs management because there are too many assholes out there who don't give a damn about others. Of course, we all know how well companies work with others. I don't have the link; but just look back on the BS with Nextell phones and emergency services.
An even better answer, of course, is to scrap this digital TV crap. The best digital TV signal doesn't hold a candle to the best analog TV signal. All that digital buys is the ability to squeeze another 150 shopping channels onto every satellite at the expense of video quality - but that doesn't matter, its marginally better than VHS, so what will the consumers ever know?
Have you ever watched a "properly installed and configured DTV running in full HD"? You obviously have not. If you have seen it on a crap setup, it won't look any better. So far, 90% of the HD systems I have seen have been incorrectly installed. Almost none of the stores have their systems set up properly. Best Buy usually has only one or two floor systems set up almost correctly. If it has a coax, it is not going to look any better then Analog. OTA Digital TV broadcasts are far superior to the analog broadcasts. I have a Samsung 31" HDTV [CRT, I don't trust plasma or LCD and don't have room for a projector]. Have a Samsung DirecTV HD receiver. The SD broadcasts look like crap when compared to the the 1080i HD broadcasts. Digital 480P is slightly better than Analog. Fox is still only broadcaster their widescreen at that. CBS and HDNET seem to do the best job on HD broadcasts.
However, I would say that most of the HD systems installed today are not used correctly becuase they are either set up wrong or the installer never clearly explained how things work. Usually a combination. I spent three hours over Christmas showing a family friend how to use his 72" HDTV in true HD mode. He was amazed. He thought he had been ripped off becuase everything was streched and fuzzy. Installer never explained to himthe proper input and settings to use to get the HD broadcasts. He was mezmerised when I finally showed him HBO HD. Technology does not good at all if no one knows how to use it or install it correctly.
When the market is hot, these sites can be jumping becuase it was harder for companies to find candidates. Now with a slower job market, a company is more likely to have candidates at their door and they do not need to resort to online services. If I were hiring right now, I would look for folks who were actively coming to me. Shows a bit more ambition, IMHO. I know too many folks who have posted resumes on these sites and said that was how they were hunting for jobs. Then they sit around and bemoan that they don't have jobs while playing video games all day long.
When the job market is slow, a job board like that is not the best place to be hunting. Phone, mail and sneaker net beats them right now.
My only problem with RFID's is that there is not customre control on turning it on and off. It is either on all the time or controled by other devices. How long until someone figures out a way to start capturing the info from these wonderful little transmitters and cloning devices like they do with cell phones.
Until they have RFID devices that I can turn on and off on my own, I will never ever have one attached to any financial information of mine.
The less polling the better. Maybe companies and politicians might actually have to try to communicate with people to find out what they are thinking.
Plus, they don't into the account the group of folks, like me, who will give a pollster incorrect answers just to show my disdain for the polling process.
One of the main reason I have bought some early equipment is to be able to avoid any "bit" that is added.
I'm not too worried about it. Let them add the flag. Only people it will stop is the ones who would not do it anyways. If someone really wanted to copy, they will find a way.
Let them have their dangly bit! It's not going to be very useful.
Plus, a lot of county emergency coordinators are also Hams. Many actually do drills in addition to field day to help make sure the coordination is there. I'm sure the taxpayers would complain about the government buying a couple of million dollars worth of radios that would only be used in emergencies. A government will also design a radio system to fit a specific need. They do not usually do a good job of coordination. In many cases, they prefer to segregate their radio systems for their emergency services. Add to this, most emergency service personal are not trained in efficient radio operations. The hams that help in emergency operation usually drill and train to improve the efficiencey of the communications so it is not a garbled mess of crosstalk.
Some will say, well, they should train the emergency services people in radio operations. Maybe. But would you rather have your officers and firefighters out trying to take care of the situation or manning radio control stations? The hams help relieve some of this communication burden and work with emergency angencies to their primary job. It is not just a lot of folks showing up asking to help. These people have drilled and trained, on their own time and with their own money, in addition to providing their own support equipment to help the emergency services do thier job at no cost to the people. All they need is access to their radio spectrum in order to provide this service. So the question is this, would you rather pay hundreds of millions in extra taxes and trust your government to actually come up with a system that works as well and will actually work when needed[think hard about how well government usually does this]? Or is high speed internet access for surfing pr0n so important that we need to kill this very useful and important public service off?
I do concur with this. Utilities and the infrastructure should be non-profit corporations where any excess is put back into the infrastructure. I've been saying this for ten years. Power deregulation is for the birds. There are some areas where capitalisim doesn't work. This is one of them.
If there had been some X class flares, it would be possible; but spaceweather is only showing a max of a C3 [not really bug] in the last six hours. C6 in the last 24.
With only C level flares, I really doubt it is the flares. They would have had the X level listed if it happened.
To use a scare tactic of such an insane liscense cost is a sign of desperation. The code went through so many different peoples hand before it got to SCO and then SCO's own handling of the code is going to be their downfall. I still want to see them explain away how one of their former business units distributed the code. It is not very easy to say "Opps, we didn't mean it" in legalese.
I can't see the FCC giving any more time. There is a lot of pressure on them to release the old analog TV spectrum for other commercial uses. Plus, it is expensive for stations to run both analog and digital broadcasts at the same time. 2006 will be the end of analog broadcasts. There is too much pressure on the FCC. People will buy the new TV's or adapters once the old ones stop working.
Heck, this turkey didn't just have small plot holes. They were big enough to Drive V'ger and his ship through from ST:TMP. Probably the worst story and script for a Star Trek of any kind!
For the 2000 600/600e's that my office is responsible for. That is over three years. We have seven other techs who have changed out about the same number. So in three years, we have had to change out over 1400 batteries.
Adding the 1 would allow the use of reserved prefexes, 911, 411, 611, etc. as area codes. If you just dial 911 you get 911 if you dial 1-911 you get a number in the "911" area code. Although, I bet the false 911 calls go up. Probably start with other numbers like 111 and 211, etc.
Weather modification is a dangerous game. Especially with hurricanes. Hurricanes allow the dissapation of stored heat in the ocean. If we artificially disrupt storms, the heat dissapation wil not be able to occur. This will cause other climate changes and will also lead to stronger and more dangerous storms down the road. Weather modification is not a zero sum science. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Imagine if in hurricane season, two possible storms are disrupted in the Gulf of Mexico. Both of these storms could be minor hurricanes with minor damagae at landfall. Instead, they are dissipated early. Heat that these storms would have dissapeted remain and intensify in the GOM. Now a system, comes along and rapidly strengthens in the area where the prior storms should have dissipated the heat. This storm grows to Cat4 and makes landfall with major damage. Storm three would not have happened if storms one and two were allowed to happen. Weather modification is not a good idea.
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I think many workplaces have had a lower tech version of this for years, it is called a time clock.
I see no problem what so ever using this kind of technology with kids. Under the age of 18, I feel that a parent and school has every right to know where a student is. The school is legally responsible for the child when there and the parents have an obligation to make sure their child is attending school.
Is it perfect, heck no. But this is not a huge issue. Once someone turns 18 and is a legally responsible adult, that is a different story, IMHO.
In 2004
Bush 7,738
Kerry 2,180
optical scan. [The county has had a major growth burst in the last decade]
I should add for reference, in 2000:
Bush 5,611
Gore 2,392
Baker county used punch cards in 2000.
Further reference 1996
Dole: 3,684
Clinton: 2,273
Perot: 667
[Clinton did very well across all of Florida in this election]
1992
Bush: 3,417
Clinton: 1,974
Perot: 1,315
1988:
Bush: 3,414
Dukakis: 1,353
1984:
Reagan: 3,485
Dole: 1,381
1980:
Reagan: 2,271
Carter: 2,606
The last time a Democrat won Baker county.
The 68.8% swing county is very easy. It is Baker county. Most of the county has been registered Democrat for decades. Everyone in office there is Democrat. However, they are the staunch old style Southern Democrats. This county has, since Reagan, always gone heavily Republican in state and national contests. They voted about the same percentage in the Senate race too. To try to blame it on the Op-scans is just a case of someone not taking time to look at the voting and political history of a county. Some of the folks writing these articles need to actualy try to do some real journalisim and research the past history instead of making idiotic assumptions.
Part of the reason for the protest has been that the power utilities have been very poor in the manner they respond to RFI complaints caused by their equipment . With that being a fact, why should hams trust that the utilities will do any better with BPL.
BPL can work, however, as it is being proposed, it is not setup to properly protect the liscensed users of the bandwidth that these systems will be radiating in. The power companies are lobbying to put in the system that requires them to do the least amount of work. Not a single one has proposed a system that would mitigate their response.
The United Power Line Council recently showed it had no real arguments against the hams cases when it responded to FCC comments by saying they were the true experts and "not a misinformed set of armchair amateurs that still use vacuum tube transmitters." Wow, name calling in a document submitted to the FCC. The simple fact is that they have not been able to refute the technical arguments. They are now trying to buy influence and namecall in order to get their way.
Depending on what the FCC does, they can trump that with an order. They do that with Sattelite Dishes for DishTV and DirecTV. Many apartment complexes had rules that prohibited all dishes. Now they must make reasonable accomodations for dishes.
Actually the main reason is compliance with new polution regulations. Disney had to reduce the number of pollutants it created.
Am surprised they donated the patents though. How un-Di$ney like!
Why should everything be given to the internet and IP protocol? TCP/IP sucks. There are a lot of better ways of doing it. The whole internet needs to be dergulated and let the best protocol win out.
Sarcasam aside, RF is not a bubble. Internet is not the be all end all. The internet is not going to solve everything. We all know how well the internet works when a core router goes down. Anyone who wants to be the farm on the internet will end up looking for a new place to live. Spectrum needs management because there are too many assholes out there who don't give a damn about others. Of course, we all know how well companies work with others. I don't have the link; but just look back on the BS with Nextell phones and emergency services.
I can't wait for Bush to lose so we can have some sane government.
If you think John Kerry is going to change anything on that, you should look at this.
Have you ever watched a "properly installed and configured DTV running in full HD"? You obviously have not. If you have seen it on a crap setup, it won't look any better. So far, 90% of the HD systems I have seen have been incorrectly installed. Almost none of the stores have their systems set up properly. Best Buy usually has only one or two floor systems set up almost correctly. If it has a coax, it is not going to look any better then Analog. OTA Digital TV broadcasts are far superior to the analog broadcasts. I have a Samsung 31" HDTV [CRT, I don't trust plasma or LCD and don't have room for a projector]. Have a Samsung DirecTV HD receiver. The SD broadcasts look like crap when compared to the the 1080i HD broadcasts. Digital 480P is slightly better than Analog. Fox is still only broadcaster their widescreen at that. CBS and HDNET seem to do the best job on HD broadcasts.
However, I would say that most of the HD systems installed today are not used correctly becuase they are either set up wrong or the installer never clearly explained how things work. Usually a combination. I spent three hours over Christmas showing a family friend how to use his 72" HDTV in true HD mode. He was amazed. He thought he had been ripped off becuase everything was streched and fuzzy. Installer never explained to himthe proper input and settings to use to get the HD broadcasts. He was mezmerised when I finally showed him HBO HD. Technology does not good at all if no one knows how to use it or install it correctly.
Wooohoooo!
When the market is hot, these sites can be jumping becuase it was harder for companies to find candidates. Now with a slower job market, a company is more likely to have candidates at their door and they do not need to resort to online services. If I were hiring right now, I would look for folks who were actively coming to me. Shows a bit more ambition, IMHO. I know too many folks who have posted resumes on these sites and said that was how they were hunting for jobs. Then they sit around and bemoan that they don't have jobs while playing video games all day long.
When the job market is slow, a job board like that is not the best place to be hunting. Phone, mail and sneaker net beats them right now.
My only problem with RFID's is that there is not customre control on turning it on and off. It is either on all the time or controled by other devices. How long until someone figures out a way to start capturing the info from these wonderful little transmitters and cloning devices like they do with cell phones.
Until they have RFID devices that I can turn on and off on my own, I will never ever have one attached to any financial information of mine.
The less polling the better. Maybe companies and politicians might actually have to try to communicate with people to find out what they are thinking.
Plus, they don't into the account the group of folks, like me, who will give a pollster incorrect answers just to show my disdain for the polling process.
One of the main reason I have bought some early equipment is to be able to avoid any "bit" that is added.
I'm not too worried about it. Let them add the flag. Only people it will stop is the ones who would not do it anyways. If someone really wanted to copy, they will find a way.
Let them have their dangly bit! It's not going to be very useful.
Plus, a lot of county emergency coordinators are also Hams. Many actually do drills in addition to field day to help make sure the coordination is there. I'm sure the taxpayers would complain about the government buying a couple of million dollars worth of radios that would only be used in emergencies. A government will also design a radio system to fit a specific need. They do not usually do a good job of coordination. In many cases, they prefer to segregate their radio systems for their emergency services. Add to this, most emergency service personal are not trained in efficient radio operations. The hams that help in emergency operation usually drill and train to improve the efficiencey of the communications so it is not a garbled mess of crosstalk.
Some will say, well, they should train the emergency services people in radio operations. Maybe. But would you rather have your officers and firefighters out trying to take care of the situation or manning radio control stations? The hams help relieve some of this communication burden and work with emergency angencies to their primary job. It is not just a lot of folks showing up asking to help. These people have drilled and trained, on their own time and with their own money, in addition to providing their own support equipment to help the emergency services do thier job at no cost to the people. All they need is access to their radio spectrum in order to provide this service. So the question is this, would you rather pay hundreds of millions in extra taxes and trust your government to actually come up with a system that works as well and will actually work when needed[think hard about how well government usually does this]? Or is high speed internet access for surfing pr0n so important that we need to kill this very useful and important public service off?
I do concur with this. Utilities and the infrastructure should be non-profit corporations where any excess is put back into the infrastructure. I've been saying this for ten years. Power deregulation is for the birds. There are some areas where capitalisim doesn't work. This is one of them.
If there had been some X class flares, it would be possible; but spaceweather is only showing a max of a C3 [not really bug] in the last six hours. C6 in the last 24.
With only C level flares, I really doubt it is the flares. They would have had the X level listed if it happened.
To use a scare tactic of such an insane liscense cost is a sign of desperation. The code went through so many different peoples hand before it got to SCO and then SCO's own handling of the code is going to be their downfall. I still want to see them explain away how one of their former business units distributed the code. It is not very easy to say "Opps, we didn't mean it" in legalese.
I can't see the FCC giving any more time. There is a lot of pressure on them to release the old analog TV spectrum for other commercial uses. Plus, it is expensive for stations to run both analog and digital broadcasts at the same time. 2006 will be the end of analog broadcasts. There is too much pressure on the FCC. People will buy the new TV's or adapters once the old ones stop working.
Heck, this turkey didn't just have small plot holes. They were big enough to Drive V'ger and his ship through from ST:TMP. Probably the worst story and script for a Star Trek of any kind!
Gah! Brain dead, lack of sleep and can't do simple math. Maybe I need a new battery!
For the 2000 600/600e's that my office is responsible for. That is over three years. We have seven other techs who have changed out about the same number. So in three years, we have had to change out over 1400 batteries.
Adding the 1 would allow the use of reserved prefexes, 911, 411, 611, etc. as area codes. If you just dial 911 you get 911 if you dial 1-911 you get a number in the "911" area code. Although, I bet the false 911 calls go up. Probably start with other numbers like 111 and 211, etc.
Weather modification is a dangerous game. Especially with hurricanes. Hurricanes allow the dissapation of stored heat in the ocean. If we artificially disrupt storms, the heat dissapation wil not be able to occur. This will cause other climate changes and will also lead to stronger and more dangerous storms down the road. Weather modification is not a zero sum science. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Imagine if in hurricane season, two possible storms are disrupted in the Gulf of Mexico. Both of these storms could be minor hurricanes with minor damagae at landfall. Instead, they are dissipated early. Heat that these storms would have dissapeted remain and intensify in the GOM. Now a system, comes along and rapidly strengthens in the area where the prior storms should have dissipated the heat. This storm grows to Cat4 and makes landfall with major damage. Storm three would not have happened if storms one and two were allowed to happen. Weather modification is not a good idea.