Sorry, but science is (almost) never primary. Why did the US go to the moon? It wasn't because of science, it was because of politics and to beat the Soviets. The thing is that once you were there, the only thing you could do was good science. Deep space spaceflight, and manned spaceflight, is really about applied politics. It's just the reality of it.
There's no denying that the rovers have done incredible work. But the simple fact of the matter is that a human geologist could have accomplished what they have done in 15 years in maybe a week. Put a geologist in a spacesuit, give them a camera, hammer, and a quad bike, and they'll return far more science far more quickly than any rover ever will.
This was back in 2012 or so. Either way, it was a stupid move on their part, since enforcing their fare rules would have just caused them to lose an additional $1200 in revenue from me. Had they stripped me of my points, it probably would have cost them the business of a 100k flyer. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed.
I once needed to be in Europe twice within a three week period for two different clients. As I booked my travel, I noticed that I could book Europe->North America fares a lot cheaper than North America -> Europe, and also that if I stayed at least 1 weekend, the trip was also much cheaper. So what I did was book the bookends of the two trips on one fare (round trip NA->EU->NA) then booked a second trip (EU->NA->EU) in the middle so I could come home.
It all went off pretty well when I flew it, and I saved a significant chunk of my employer's money with the trick. A couple of months later, though, I got a nastygram from the Airline chastising me for violating the fare rules. Given that I was a 100k frequent flyer at the time, I replied back, CC'ing the appropriate people in the frequent flyer program that I didn't appreciate the tone of their letter, and that had I known it would have been a problem, i would have hapily either stayed in Europe for the 5 days, or booked it on another airline, thereby denying them the revenue of the additional flight.
I later got an apology, and a token amount of miles to "make things right"
What I would like is the ability to use 802.1X for logins on the wifi
No, you don't really want this. I've managed a network with it, and with BYOD devices it's just a major pain in the ass to support and maintain.
What you want is a captive portal that can be used to sign on a device, and activate it. Keep it isolated from your network, and the security is good enough(tm).
It's a few miles away from the border. The dirty secret behind this stupid wall is that it's often several miles inland from the actual border due to practical construction considerations.
You cut with a circular/wet saw, then fill the micro trench with a sealant.
That’s what Novus does in Vancouver, BC. They microtrench concrete sidewalks with a wet saw, stuff the fiber into the slit, then seal up with some sort of epoxy. Works quite well. That said, they run multiple links to each building so there’s multi-path redundancy built in.
You’re working on the false assumption that religion and science contradict each other. They only do so in certain, narrow, interpretations. Conversely, someone like myself looks at the two as being orthogonal. Science doesn’t deny God, God doesn’t deny science and logic. This is especially true when you get into the mainline denominations (Episcopal, ELCA Lutheran, UCC, RC, etc...). When I was a University student at a major, public university, a significant portion of the professors and doctoral students were also religious. There is no cognitive dissonance here.
But anyway, I know that you’re not going to read this or accept this, so I guess the whole argument is moot.
I work with a 501(c)3 nonprofit. We operate our website off of the.org domain, but also own.com,.net, and.info for defensive purposes. We don’t want someone else to grab them and do something nefarious with them. I should actually check to see if those redirect back to our.org
Add to this that cheap laptops are often unmaintainable pieces of shit...
I work with a non-profit, and while we don't buy $3k laptops, we will only buy "Business Grade" laptops for our operations. They last longer, are easier to maintain, and are consistent making the job of our IT department that much easier. Basically for each generation of laptop I have in circulation, I have one software build for them (including drivers etc...). Instead of costing $500 per unit, they cost us $1500 or so, but over the 4 or 5 year lifespan of the laptop, it's worth it.
An least according to one tweet, the thing broke loose from its anchor blocks. So it looks like they did secure it, it's just that it overwhelmed the anchoring system.
That's exactly what Apple Pay does, except that you don't have to carry your card, your phone acts as a contactless card (of your choosing).
The bit of support that is needed is integration with your bank, as when you add your card to your phone, the system generates a new card number that is unique to the device, and which can not be used for other types of transactions. This makes it somewhat more secure than using the card itself, as your actual credit card is never hitting the air.
The thing is that Apple just supports the standard. The standard way that any other tap-to-pay EMV card communicates with the reader. The rest of the world has had this functionality for a good 4 to 5 years. yeah, stores advertise they accept Apple Pay, but as long as they support tap on their terminals, they support it because there is no difference.
The only difference is that when you add your card to your phone, it generates a new, device specific credit card number that can only be used by that device, and can not be used in any other kind of transaction. (it's not per session, or generated for every transaction). So even if someone snoops your card in the NFC interaction, all they can do is use it for other NFC payments, which typically have a limit of $100 or so (at least in Canada).
Say what? I've never, ever seen that in europe or Canada, save for things like the Starbucks app (but then, it's a 2D barcode scanned at the store). It's all NFC/tap based, no different than the tap functionality built into your average EMV credit or debit card.
In BC, it's a mix of both. If you wind up buying a new car and keeping your old one, even if it's just for a day while you try to sell it, you wind up with new plates. It used to be that people just transferred their plates, but come to think of it, most people I know have wound up changing plates as they've changed cars.
That said, the plates just go back to ICBC, likely to be recycled.
So all we have to do is get all the kiddie fiddlers to buy $500 plates. Well on second thought, brilliant!
While you're making a snide comment, the reality is that the vast majority of child abductions (and resulting amber alerts) are due to parental abductions (ie estranged mother/father running with the kids during custody battles etc....
AIS btw. is a mixed system. It responds/transponds to incoming radar, but also sends to satellites, like an EPIRB beacon.
AIS has absolutely nothing to do with radar, other than the fact that it's often displayed on top of radar displays. It works completely over VHF radio using a mechanism called self organizing TDMA. There is zero interaction with radar signals which are operating either in S or X bands.
In this case, the islands are quite literally islanded micro-grids that are not connected to the outside world. There are no undersea power cables, instead they rely on diesel/fossil fuel generation.
Still nothing really good on cancer, took half a century with AIDS and still no real treatment
I'll challenge you on the AIDS claim. Modern medicine has done an incredible job at turning what was one a short term death sentence into what is now a manageable chronic condition. We have become so good at it that the hospital here in Vancouver, which was once at the heart of one of the worst outbreaks in the developed world, choose to shut down their AIDS ward because they hadn't had a patient in over a year. This was a few years ago.
Given how the mechanism behind the disease, this is truly remarkable and a triumph of modern medicine.
The only way that you will ever stem the flow of economic, political, and poverty refugees and migrants it's too achieve the same level of development, freedom, and security of person as their origin country. Personally I would rather see this be done by raising their standard of living rather than sinking to theirs.
Canada and the US have the world's longest undefended border and there is very little irregular migration across it. In most places it's marked by nothing more than a drainage ditch or a 20' wide cut through the forest. This is because Canada and the US have relatively similar standards of living. If there were to be a new Marshall plan to radically improve Mexico and Latin America, the flows would stop. But that will never happen.
The fact is, we already pay enough to bring everyone above the poverty line. That money gets plundered by politicians and bureaucrats before the dregs get handed out to the poor.
The fact that you believe this just goes to show that the real perpetrators have already won. The real perpetrators are the wealthy elite who plunder and pillage companies, amassing enormous wealth while exploiting their workforces. The politicians and bureaucrats you speak of so derisively are or last defence against those who would rob us blind.
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Yes, but St. John's NFLD -> LHR is a shorter distance then NYC -> LAX
Sorry, but science is (almost) never primary. Why did the US go to the moon? It wasn't because of science, it was because of politics and to beat the Soviets. The thing is that once you were there, the only thing you could do was good science. Deep space spaceflight, and manned spaceflight, is really about applied politics. It's just the reality of it.
That's why you put the human on a quad bike or similar vehicle.
There's no denying that the rovers have done incredible work. But the simple fact of the matter is that a human geologist could have accomplished what they have done in 15 years in maybe a week. Put a geologist in a spacesuit, give them a camera, hammer, and a quad bike, and they'll return far more science far more quickly than any rover ever will.
This was back in 2012 or so. Either way, it was a stupid move on their part, since enforcing their fare rules would have just caused them to lose an additional $1200 in revenue from me. Had they stripped me of my points, it probably would have cost them the business of a 100k flyer. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed.
I once needed to be in Europe twice within a three week period for two different clients. As I booked my travel, I noticed that I could book Europe->North America fares a lot cheaper than North America -> Europe, and also that if I stayed at least 1 weekend, the trip was also much cheaper. So what I did was book the bookends of the two trips on one fare (round trip NA->EU->NA) then booked a second trip (EU->NA->EU) in the middle so I could come home.
It all went off pretty well when I flew it, and I saved a significant chunk of my employer's money with the trick. A couple of months later, though, I got a nastygram from the Airline chastising me for violating the fare rules. Given that I was a 100k frequent flyer at the time, I replied back, CC'ing the appropriate people in the frequent flyer program that I didn't appreciate the tone of their letter, and that had I known it would have been a problem, i would have hapily either stayed in Europe for the 5 days, or booked it on another airline, thereby denying them the revenue of the additional flight.
I later got an apology, and a token amount of miles to "make things right"
What I would like is the ability to use 802.1X for logins on the wifi
No, you don't really want this. I've managed a network with it, and with BYOD devices it's just a major pain in the ass to support and maintain.
What you want is a captive portal that can be used to sign on a device, and activate it. Keep it isolated from your network, and the security is good enough(tm).
It's a few miles away from the border. The dirty secret behind this stupid wall is that it's often several miles inland from the actual border due to practical construction considerations.
You cut with a circular/wet saw, then fill the micro trench with a sealant.
That’s what Novus does in Vancouver, BC. They microtrench concrete sidewalks with a wet saw, stuff the fiber into the slit, then seal up with some sort of epoxy. Works quite well. That said, they run multiple links to each building so there’s multi-path redundancy built in.
You’re working on the false assumption that religion and science contradict each other. They only do so in certain, narrow, interpretations. Conversely, someone like myself looks at the two as being orthogonal. Science doesn’t deny God, God doesn’t deny science and logic. This is especially true when you get into the mainline denominations (Episcopal, ELCA Lutheran, UCC, RC, etc...). When I was a University student at a major, public university, a significant portion of the professors and doctoral students were also religious. There is no cognitive dissonance here.
But anyway, I know that you’re not going to read this or accept this, so I guess the whole argument is moot.
Yeah, we're much smaller than those... But I operate a tight IT ship.
I work with a 501(c)3 nonprofit. We operate our website off of the .org domain, but also own .com, .net, and .info for defensive purposes. We don’t want someone else to grab them and do something nefarious with them. I should actually check to see if those redirect back to our .org
Add to this that cheap laptops are often unmaintainable pieces of shit...
I work with a non-profit, and while we don't buy $3k laptops, we will only buy "Business Grade" laptops for our operations. They last longer, are easier to maintain, and are consistent making the job of our IT department that much easier. Basically for each generation of laptop I have in circulation, I have one software build for them (including drivers etc...). Instead of costing $500 per unit, they cost us $1500 or so, but over the 4 or 5 year lifespan of the laptop, it's worth it.
An least according to one tweet, the thing broke loose from its anchor blocks. So it looks like they did secure it, it's just that it overwhelmed the anchoring system.
That's exactly what Apple Pay does, except that you don't have to carry your card, your phone acts as a contactless card (of your choosing).
The bit of support that is needed is integration with your bank, as when you add your card to your phone, the system generates a new card number that is unique to the device, and which can not be used for other types of transactions. This makes it somewhat more secure than using the card itself, as your actual credit card is never hitting the air.
The thing is that Apple just supports the standard. The standard way that any other tap-to-pay EMV card communicates with the reader. The rest of the world has had this functionality for a good 4 to 5 years. yeah, stores advertise they accept Apple Pay, but as long as they support tap on their terminals, they support it because there is no difference.
The only difference is that when you add your card to your phone, it generates a new, device specific credit card number that can only be used by that device, and can not be used in any other kind of transaction. (it's not per session, or generated for every transaction). So even if someone snoops your card in the NFC interaction, all they can do is use it for other NFC payments, which typically have a limit of $100 or so (at least in Canada).
Say what? I've never, ever seen that in europe or Canada, save for things like the Starbucks app (but then, it's a 2D barcode scanned at the store). It's all NFC/tap based, no different than the tap functionality built into your average EMV credit or debit card.
In BC, it's a mix of both. If you wind up buying a new car and keeping your old one, even if it's just for a day while you try to sell it, you wind up with new plates. It used to be that people just transferred their plates, but come to think of it, most people I know have wound up changing plates as they've changed cars.
That said, the plates just go back to ICBC, likely to be recycled.
So all we have to do is get all the kiddie fiddlers to buy $500 plates. Well on second thought, brilliant!
While you're making a snide comment, the reality is that the vast majority of child abductions (and resulting amber alerts) are due to parental abductions (ie estranged mother/father running with the kids during custody battles etc....
AIS btw. is a mixed system. It responds/transponds to incoming radar, but also sends to satellites, like an EPIRB beacon.
AIS has absolutely nothing to do with radar, other than the fact that it's often displayed on top of radar displays. It works completely over VHF radio using a mechanism called self organizing TDMA. There is zero interaction with radar signals which are operating either in S or X bands.
In this case, the islands are quite literally islanded micro-grids that are not connected to the outside world. There are no undersea power cables, instead they rely on diesel/fossil fuel generation.
Still nothing really good on cancer, took half a century with AIDS and still no real treatment
I'll challenge you on the AIDS claim. Modern medicine has done an incredible job at turning what was one a short term death sentence into what is now a manageable chronic condition. We have become so good at it that the hospital here in Vancouver, which was once at the heart of one of the worst outbreaks in the developed world, choose to shut down their AIDS ward because they hadn't had a patient in over a year. This was a few years ago.
Given how the mechanism behind the disease, this is truly remarkable and a triumph of modern medicine.
The only way that you will ever stem the flow of economic, political, and poverty refugees and migrants it's too achieve the same level of development, freedom, and security of person as their origin country. Personally I would rather see this be done by raising their standard of living rather than sinking to theirs.
Canada and the US have the world's longest undefended border and there is very little irregular migration across it. In most places it's marked by nothing more than a drainage ditch or a 20' wide cut through the forest. This is because Canada and the US have relatively similar standards of living. If there were to be a new Marshall plan to radically improve Mexico and Latin America, the flows would stop. But that will never happen.
The limitations imposed by Chinese internet filtering are pretty well known.
The fact is, we already pay enough to bring everyone above the poverty line. That money gets plundered by politicians and bureaucrats before the dregs get handed out to the poor.
The fact that you believe this just goes to show that the real perpetrators have already won. The real perpetrators are the wealthy elite who plunder and pillage companies, amassing enormous wealth while exploiting their workforces. The politicians and bureaucrats you speak of so derisively are or last defence against those who would rob us blind.