I was *on* my cell phone when a minor 4.X earthquake hit the Los Angeles area a couple years back. It worked fine while I was on it.
Less than two minutes later as everyone called everyone else to ask "Did you feel that?" The entire system was down. Not just for me, but for the 200+ nerds we had standing around in the parking lot (our building hosted a bunch of ISP's). People tried voice calls, and they tried getting on the internet via the phones... no dice.
SMS worked for about 10 minutes then got backed up.
So my coworkers and I went to lunch since *nothing* had been damage, *no one* had been hurt, and it was all just a big face.
Summary: a very minor, non dangerous, no damage event occurred, and the entire cell phone system across the LA basin went AWOL for several hours.
Ask the nice folks who lived through Katrina how well the cell phone system worked.
If you are depending on you cell phone to save you in an emergency, I would suggest you also pack a some chapstick, because you can kiss your ass good bye.
I would like to talk to you a bit more about this subject if you don't mind. I am guessing that you don't feel like posting a bunch of info like that to slashdot so how can I send a message via a more quiet channel? I can setup a onetime email address if you want so you can send me an email without posting your address to a google searched page. Let me know.
I call BS. My family does not even know how to change the oil in our cars. We still average far, far, far less than US $500 per month in repair bills. In fact I would estimate that our repair bill rairly tops a $250 per month average. And that is for three cars all with more than 100K miles each: 88 Cady, 89 Delta88, and a 91 Lexus. We rarly have any problems, and when we do our mechanic fixes them for a reasonable rate and usualy within a couple of days.
When I worked for a library I noticed a log of files with red ! as their icons. I determined that they must be erorrors or duplicates. So I removed them. Turns out that in windows 95 a red ! means that it is a critical system file. And the library did not have the system source media anymore so we spend the next day looking for any machines with a similar version of the deleted file and moveing them back by hand.
Just one tiny little question, that I'd like to have answered: Given the short distance between major airports and major population centers, how would you in fact shoot down a plane, without causing it to drop on top of other civilians? While fighters may certainly bring down the airplane, I'm just worried about what might come down, a 747 will still cause a major accident on ground even if it took a sidewinder or two while in the air, yes?
In many areas yes.
But one goal is to deny the terrorists leverage. By denying them choice of landing we deny them that advantage. In addition by allowing passengers to understand that being on a plane that is taken hostage are likely grounds for having said plane shot down very few passengers will be likely to allow any terrorists to get very far. I can not remember the last time that the passengers & crew on a plane could not have taken down their captors, as long as they where willing to accept casualties (Both in dead and injured). With almost certainty of 100% casualty's anything less becomes preferable. This means people will take action, and viola! We would not need to shoot down the plane. Just by making this a very real factor for passengers of planes we remove this as a viable target for terrorists. This in turn means that once we show that we are serious, then it is very likely that we will never need to shoot down another plane for this reason.
A second point is that if you shoot down a plane over the outskirts of even a large city then you are likely to suffer less of a loss of life than if you let the terrorist hit his/her target. Just by willing to accept this possibility we open options. For example:
Terrorists get a plane.
Scenario 1 - Working hours.
Shoot the plane down over residential areas. Why? Because fewer people are home at midday than at night or weekend or even on a holiday.
Scenario 2 - Middle of the night/ Weekend
For any normal weekend we are better off letting the plane come down in governmental or light industrial/ commercial businesses areas (obviously malls don't count). Why? Because fewer people work weekends than are home.
Scenario 3 - Headed towards a national historic site/monument.
We may chose to lose life rather than lose something that we value as a country. Would we rather loose the Washington monument or maybe a wing of the congressional office buildings? Personally I can elect another congress man, probably even a better one (read some Tom Clancy, he talks about this). If they get the monument though it would be a national tragedy.
But the point is that we get to chose not the terrorist. That makes a world of difference. In fact it changes the nature of the game.
here are many combat aircraft in the sky right now that have no, repeat NO, ability to keep the pointy end into the wind without their "fly-by-wire and fancy computers".
Yes and we trust them to carry 1-2 people at a time. Pilots who (used to be, before budget cuts) thoroughly and even excessively trained for almost any occurrence (
and who where equipped with a very sophisticated ejection system that included parachutes, life rafts, flight suits, and survival kits with guns). Not to mention that their job description indicates that they are expected to die in the service of their country. If they survive (and most do), then great. If not then we honor them, and move on.
However, this does not mean that I want 1,000's of flights every day with 50-500 passengers on each plane to be subject to this insane idea.
And honestly, after Sept. 11th any group of passengers + pilots who can not retain or retake control of their aircraft from band of 5 terrorists, armed with only the weapons that can be slipped through security (and I will not deny such a weapon may include a gun), do not deserve to survive. And we are now aware of this problem so if something like it occurs again then we will send those highly trained pilots in their super military aircraft and they will examine the plan full of 50-500 civilians who could not beat 5 idiots, and with great remorse and great sorrow shoot it out of the sky as soon as it looks to threaten anyone on the ground.
With that in mind next time you fly remember: You, your fellow passengers, and the flight crew are responsible for the security of your plane once it is in the air. Once terrorists announce themselves by word of action you have nothing to loose by restraining/stopping them. Because if you don't our military will.
That is, just because something evolves and changes over time does not mean that it couldn't have been created 'in the beginning'
Logicaly I would grant this is a valid point. I would however contest your statment that the big bang & creationism are not exclusive. I believe they are. As I understand it the big bang theory states that there was nothing. Sudenly BANG! the universe existed and was expanding. Exactly how this occured is usualy somewhat fuzzy when I speak with people who hold this view, and what precisly was the prime mover is never explained. I believe that this makes the big bang theory logicly, and internaly, inconsistant. However with creationism (God put it all here in some form) I find no logical inconsistancy. First I postuate that there is an all powerfull God. Second I say that he created everthing. You can debait that God exists, but if you allow that then the creationism argument is internaly consistant. And logical consistant (remember we concede the existance of God). If you contest the existance of God then we need to reach an understanding on that point prior to debaiting creationism just so that we can have a consistant debait framework.
Does this make sense? BTW: When I refer to debait/you here I don't specificy mean you as an individual, I am speaking of the debait on this subject in general.
Hmmm. Interesting. Looks like I need to do some ready about his latter life. Thanks for the pointer. Do you recomend any specific biographies/book about him?
Thanks, its been 4-5 years since I read it and I was going from memory. Wasent one of his latter ones called something along the lines of 'Voyage of the Beagle'? Or was it just that Beagle was the name of his ship?
As a Christina I must tell you that my first though it: Bravo! I alway am open to a bit of reasonable debate. I even enjoy it. Anyone who truely believes in their faith must be willing to learn about it and grow, usualy the best way to do that is to debait it with others. Thats why on debait teams you have to argue both sides of the argument. It's refreshing to meet another open mind.
Yeah, but his actions/policies are totaly against all accepted christian doctrin. Anyone can claim christianity. BTW: Why does this have anything to do with darwin? My point is that most people think evolution an christianity are opposed to each other, it realy freaks them out to find out that Darwin was a Christian. Darwin's theory of evolution also has no relation to the evolution theory that is currently accepted science. It realy very interesting.
You don't know my cousin
Good point.
He claimed the Catholic church said Darwin was wrong till I found a letter from the Pope which said otherwise. My cousin ignored it and said there were other authorities in the Catholic church...
Well, to be a nit picker, there are some other authorities in the Catholic Church. But, none who are anywhere near as final as the pope. He is sort of the trump card of the deck.
Well its notxmas it is however Christ mass. Comes from the evening Christ Mass that the catholic church had. Although admitidly they did coopt another religious hoiliday, but that is/was (now sure if it still is) standard practice for the Catholic Church when it went into an area. Anyway that is why is IS without a doubt christmass.
Ever seen the bumper sticker "Keep Christ in Christmas"? It's not just talking about the relgious meaning of the season. It has a double meaning of the name to.
Good point. I as a creationist I sometimes forget that some denominations of christianity do allow for and even encouage a belief in other theorys of how life began. Thanks for keeping me on my toes.:)
Why would that be weird? Darwin was a professing Christian till the day he died. Shocked? Then you might be interested in reading his books, like "Origin of the Species". If you research his life and theory you may discovers some interesting facts. But don't let that stop you from poking fun at Christians. It helps keep us on our toes.
Debian. Cron apt updates installed packages on the schedule you specify. apt-proxy sits between you and the net and keeps a local mirror of the packages requested, so 100 requests = 1 outside request. Plus you can add your own custom packages to it so that your machines are configured properly. Upgrades? Well by hand it's apt-get -y dist-upgrade. The stable branch is just that, and the testing branch is really production ready for most definitions of production. Please remember red hat != linux, it is just a distribution with bad package management; but not anywhere near as bad as Solaris package management. Why is Solaris worse? 1. Solaris does not do reverse dependency checks beyond the parent level. 2. There is no tool to verify that all the proper packages are installed prior to installing a new one. 3. Sun knows this and their help desk acknowledges that it is a known issue. They also indicate that there is not plan at this time to fix the problem.
I don't think the company has given the MSDN subscribtions to the employees. They could be transfered to someone else if an employee leaves the company.
Actualy I have MSDN it is licenced to me. And me only. If I leave then technicaly the company is out of luck. Think it is not possable? Go read the EULA again.
His client is the government though. Here in California the SLG that I work for has made if very clear that sexual harassment can be committed by or to anyone. A consultant, political position, or even someone who comes up to a public counter can be a victim or a perpetrator.
On that note, my opinion is that you stand to loose your shirt (no pun intended) on this if you try to bring it up. The popular vision is (equal rights, women are equal to men, etc not withstanding) that no woman could every really harass a man; the man must have made it clear that we was interested.
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Um. No your cell phone will not work.
I was *on* my cell phone when a minor 4.X earthquake hit the Los Angeles area a couple years back. It worked fine while I was on it.
Less than two minutes later as everyone called everyone else to ask "Did you feel that?" The entire system was down. Not just for me, but for the 200+ nerds we had standing around in the parking lot (our building hosted a bunch of ISP's). People tried voice calls, and they tried getting on the internet via the phones... no dice.
SMS worked for about 10 minutes then got backed up.
So my coworkers and I went to lunch since *nothing* had been damage, *no one* had been hurt, and it was all just a big face.
Summary: a very minor, non dangerous, no damage event occurred, and the entire cell phone system across the LA basin went AWOL for several hours.
Ask the nice folks who lived through Katrina how well the cell phone system worked.
If you are depending on you cell phone to save you in an emergency, I would suggest you also pack a some chapstick, because you can kiss your ass good bye.
Where do I get a mini-pci RAID card? I looked and could not find one.
I would like to talk to you a bit more about this subject if you don't mind. I am guessing that you don't feel like posting a bunch of info like that to slashdot so how can I send a message via a more quiet channel? I can setup a onetime email address if you want so you can send me an email without posting your address to a google searched page.
Let me know.
I call BS. My family does not even know how to change the oil in our cars. We still average far, far, far less than US $500 per month in repair bills. In fact I would estimate that our repair bill rairly tops a $250 per month average. And that is for three cars all with more than 100K miles each: 88 Cady, 89 Delta88, and a 91 Lexus. We rarly have any problems, and when we do our mechanic fixes them for a reasonable rate and usualy within a couple of days.
Well I was kind of hoping for one or the other. :)
See as far a modern science can tell, those are the only genetic possibilities. For further explanation see: Chromosomes - X,Y
When I worked for a library I noticed a log of files with red ! as their icons. I determined that they must be erorrors or duplicates. So I removed them. Turns out that in windows 95 a red ! means that it is a critical system file.
And the library did not have the system source media anymore so we spend the next day looking for any machines with a similar version of the deleted file and moveing them back by hand.
In many areas yes.
But one goal is to deny the terrorists leverage. By denying them choice of landing we deny them that advantage. In addition by allowing passengers to understand that being on a plane that is taken hostage are likely grounds for having said plane shot down very few passengers will be likely to allow any terrorists to get very far. I can not remember the last time that the passengers & crew on a plane could not have taken down their captors, as long as they where willing to accept casualties (Both in dead and injured). With almost certainty of 100% casualty's anything less becomes preferable. This means people will take action, and viola! We would not need to shoot down the plane. Just by making this a very real factor for passengers of planes we remove this as a viable target for terrorists. This in turn means that once we show that we are serious, then it is very likely that we will never need to shoot down another plane for this reason.
A second point is that if you shoot down a plane over the outskirts of even a large city then you are likely to suffer less of a loss of life than if you let the terrorist hit his/her target. Just by willing to accept this possibility we open options. For example :
Terrorists get a plane.
Scenario 1 - Working hours.
Shoot the plane down over residential areas. Why? Because fewer people are home at midday than at night or weekend or even on a holiday.
Scenario 2 - Middle of the night/ Weekend
For any normal weekend we are better off letting the plane come down in governmental or light industrial/ commercial businesses areas (obviously malls don't count). Why? Because fewer people work weekends than are home.
Scenario 3 - Headed towards a national historic site/monument.
We may chose to lose life rather than lose something that we value as a country. Would we rather loose the Washington monument or maybe a wing of the congressional office buildings? Personally I can elect another congress man, probably even a better one (read some Tom Clancy, he talks about this). If they get the monument though it would be a national tragedy.
But the point is that we get to chose not the terrorist. That makes a world of difference. In fact it changes the nature of the game.
here are many combat aircraft in the sky right now that have no, repeat NO, ability to keep the pointy end into the wind without their "fly-by-wire and fancy computers".
Yes and we trust them to carry 1-2 people at a time. Pilots who (used to be, before budget cuts) thoroughly and even excessively trained for almost any occurrence ( and who where equipped with a very sophisticated ejection system that included parachutes, life rafts, flight suits, and survival kits with guns). Not to mention that their job description indicates that they are expected to die in the service of their country. If they survive (and most do), then great. If not then we honor them, and move on.
However, this does not mean that I want 1,000's of flights every day with 50-500 passengers on each plane to be subject to this insane idea.
And honestly, after Sept. 11th any group of passengers + pilots who can not retain or retake control of their aircraft from band of 5 terrorists, armed with only the weapons that can be slipped through security (and I will not deny such a weapon may include a gun), do not deserve to survive. And we are now aware of this problem so if something like it occurs again then we will send those highly trained pilots in their super military aircraft and they will examine the plan full of 50-500 civilians who could not beat 5 idiots, and with great remorse and great sorrow shoot it out of the sky as soon as it looks to threaten anyone on the ground.
With that in mind next time you fly remember: You, your fellow passengers, and the flight crew are responsible for the security of your plane once it is in the air. Once terrorists announce themselves by word of action you have nothing to loose by restraining/stopping them. Because if you don't our military will.
That is, just because something evolves and changes over time does not mean that it couldn't have been created 'in the beginning'
Logicaly I would grant this is a valid point. I would however contest your statment that the big bang & creationism are not exclusive. I believe they are. As I understand it the big bang theory states that there was nothing. Sudenly BANG! the universe existed and was expanding. Exactly how this occured is usualy somewhat fuzzy when I speak with people who hold this view, and what precisly was the prime mover is never explained. I believe that this makes the big bang theory logicly, and internaly, inconsistant. However with creationism (God put it all here in some form) I find no logical inconsistancy. First I postuate that there is an all powerfull God. Second I say that he created everthing. You can debait that God exists, but if you allow that then the creationism argument is internaly consistant. And logical consistant (remember we concede the existance of God). If you contest the existance of God then we need to reach an understanding on that point prior to debaiting creationism just so that we can have a consistant debait framework. Does this make sense? BTW: When I refer to debait/you here I don't specificy mean you as an individual, I am speaking of the debait on this subject in general.
Hmm, now that you mention it I vaguely remember hearing that somewhere.
Personaly, I still prefer the traditional "Christmas".
Hmmm. Interesting. Looks like I need to do some ready about his latter life.
Thanks for the pointer.
Do you recomend any specific biographies/book about him?
Thanks, its been 4-5 years since I read it and I was going from memory. Wasent one of his latter ones called something along the lines of 'Voyage of the Beagle'? Or was it just that Beagle was the name of his ship?
Oh, thanks, that made me laugth. Good point. English is a strange language. And it's interpretation is always good for a laugh.
As a Christina I must tell you that my first though it:
Bravo! I alway am open to a bit of reasonable debate. I even enjoy it. Anyone who truely believes in their faith must be willing to learn about it and grow, usualy the best way to do that is to debait it with others.
Thats why on debait teams you have to argue both sides of the argument.
It's refreshing to meet another open mind.
Mery Christmas, and Happy New Year
Yeah, but his actions/policies are totaly against all accepted christian doctrin. Anyone can claim christianity.
BTW: Why does this have anything to do with darwin? My point is that most people think evolution an christianity are opposed to each other, it realy freaks them out to find out that Darwin was a Christian.
Darwin's theory of evolution also has no relation to the evolution theory that is currently accepted science. It realy very interesting.
You don't know my cousin Good point. He claimed the Catholic church said Darwin was wrong till I found a letter from the Pope which said otherwise. My cousin ignored it and said there were other authorities in the Catholic church... Well, to be a nit picker, there are some other authorities in the Catholic Church. But, none who are anywhere near as final as the pope. He is sort of the trump card of the deck.
Well its not xmas it is however Christ mass. Comes from the evening Christ Mass that the catholic church had. Although admitidly they did coopt another religious hoiliday, but that is/was (now sure if it still is) standard practice for the Catholic Church when it went into an area. Anyway that is why is IS without a doubt christmass. Ever seen the bumper sticker "Keep Christ in Christmas"? It's not just talking about the relgious meaning of the season. It has a double meaning of the name to.
Good point. I as a creationist I sometimes forget that some denominations of christianity do allow for and even encouage a belief in other theorys of how life began. :)
Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
Why would that be weird? Darwin was a professing Christian till the day he died. Shocked? Then you might be interested in reading his books, like "Origin of the Species".
If you research his life and theory you may discovers some interesting facts.
But don't let that stop you from poking fun at Christians. It helps keep us on our toes.
that is not a long-term successful approach. Wow. I guess your not a large government contractor, and you don't work for a phone company either. :)
Do you have a link to MRI? That turns up a lot of results in google.
Debian.
Cron apt updates installed packages on the schedule you specify. apt-proxy sits between you and the net and keeps a local mirror of the packages requested, so 100 requests = 1 outside request. Plus you can add your own custom packages to it so that your machines are configured properly. Upgrades? Well by hand it's
apt-get -y dist-upgrade. The stable branch is just that, and the testing branch is really production ready for most definitions of production. Please remember red hat != linux, it is just a distribution with bad package management; but not anywhere near as bad as Solaris package management.
Why is Solaris worse?
1. Solaris does not do reverse dependency checks beyond the parent level.
2. There is no tool to verify that all the proper packages are installed prior to installing a new one.
3. Sun knows this and their help desk acknowledges that it is a known issue. They also indicate that there is not plan at this time to fix the problem.
I don't think the company has given the MSDN subscribtions to the employees. They could be transfered to someone else if an employee leaves the company.
Actualy I have MSDN it is licenced to me. And me only. If I leave then technicaly the company is out of luck. Think it is not possable? Go read the EULA again.
His client is the government though. Here in California the SLG that I work for has made if very clear that sexual harassment can be committed by or to anyone. A consultant, political position, or even someone who comes up to a public counter can be a victim or a perpetrator.
On that note, my opinion is that you stand to loose your shirt (no pun intended) on this if you try to bring it up. The popular vision is (equal rights, women are equal to men, etc not withstanding) that no woman could every really harass a man; the man must have made it clear that we was interested.
Your are right it would be cruel. But it is a briliant idea, and a funny post.
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+Funny
+Interesting