yes it will eat up lots of inodes. And you waste huge amounts of space. Its better if most people are sending huge attachments but not as good if most users check messages frequently and use mostly plain text messages.
Making it illegal for them will only make GPL enforcement harder It won't matter unless the GPL also grants end users the right to reverse engineer GPLed code. Right now that is or maybe illegal in most places in the world unless the copyright holder explicitly allows it and none of the common free licenses allow it.
When I'm walking at my fast normal pace, I cover almost exactly 6 km which is 3.7 mph but I can only do that for a bit over an hour. The next hour I'll be off by at least 10% if not 15%. In three hours I expect I'm under 3 mph. If I don't lose any more speed I would cover about 3.7x2+3x10 or 37.4 miles and I could do part of that with a pack on however only about 3 of my friends could keep up with that.
Of course that assumes there is a safe destination. Keep in mind that huge river that could flood anywhere along its banks for hundreds of miles with the winds that were expected. If you go east or west you have to know the storm direction and this time east lost out.
If they left 48 hours out they would have been in a worse situation and in at least 3 out of the last 4 that hit that area that would have been the case. The NWS warning was stating livestock that got hit by flying debris would die in the entire area you claim you could walk in 2 days. Even so how do you find a secure location 50 miles away that is anymore secure that what you left (which you might know has survived other hurricanes?)
48 hours before the storm, they would have had to walk an additional distance because they would not have been allowed to walk over the highway bridges.
Also how about the people that were told to stay in the hotels since they were considered safe but then were kicked out after the storm when the flooding came? They should have stayed in the hotel but were forced to leave. Same goes for some of the hospitals and nursing homes. Then there were the ones like police and utility workers that needed to stay behind for any number of reason.
You want citations for everything? How about looking at the real world? How long does it take you to walk an hour? Are you faster or slower than most? I tend to walk 1 km in 10 minutes yet I walk at least twice as fast as most Japanese women.
Have you ever watched a bunch of people who are of average shape deal with strenuous work for a few hours? There is a reason so many people die while shoveling snow. I've seen too many people that have been hauled out of water because they just couldn't go on any more after just a short time of mild exercise.
A report from the last hurricane indicated about 600,000 out of a million left. The average family that did leave spent something like $1200 (or $1500 I don't remember and can't find the link) on travel, food, hotels and other losses.
Walk where? The entire area within 24 hrs walking distance would have been worse than staying in a low house. Most people can only walk 2 to 4 miles an hour and they can only do that for about 6 hrs if they are in average shape. 12 miles out would get them to the weigh station that is currently being used as a transfer point because its high ground.
Read the NWS storm warnings... these people would have had to walk over 50 miles to get to a point where they might have a chance of survival.
UW also has some of the highest paid donation collectors around. Remember all the guys in suits that come to companies and promise their CEOs that they can come to exclusive parties if they get 100% donations? I know of people who worked for UW that own very nice boats.
I've seen enough stuff leveled in tornado alley to know that a serious disaster recovery plan is essential for a companies survival. I also know that dealing the employees in that situation is critical as well. The lack of being able to make contact with a workplace can lead to massive depression after a disaster and the people have a strong emotional need to hear something from their higher up even if that news is "the company gone and we can't do anything else for you". For some reason people respond to that better than not knowing anything.
What a company must do is tell its HR dept. that they must keep in contact with the remote branch if they can. In the case of this company, many of its employees would be much less stressed out if someone would have told everyone "heres our contact number in NY, check in". As it is now, some of the people will be out of cash, with no contact info and even if the Acct people could make payments, they may not be able to since many small banks are out for the count. A simple phone call might be able to get a bit of cash wired to a friends account.
Keep in mind that the HR people are there to deal with the Human Resource issues and that means dealing the employees that have urgent needs such as emergency cash or emotional support for a lost loved-one. I also expect that HR person to have been evacuated far away and is someplace safe where they can at least use a phone.
When it comes to accounting, people are going to have to get paid and the company needs to know who has the checkbook and authority to transfer money.
We may know it's complex, but unless we're intimitely involved we cannot accurately critique the relief effort I disagree. There was plenty that should have been done but wasn't. Why weren't there national guard troops stationed in the dome before the situation started. Its typical (even NO law requires it) to have 2 security for the 1st 100 people and something like 1 additional per 100. They estimated 10,000 people so they should have had at least 300 guards on duty (100 x 3 shifts) on duty from at least 12 hrs before the storm hit.
There is spare food and water siting at bases in Texas and Georgia. That should have been loaded on C130s the minute it was clear that things were going to get bad. That should be planned at least 24 hrs ahead and be ready to go. From an AF logistics point of view, its just a matter of adjusting leave schedules so you have the people on the ground to prep the planes and a crew to fly it.
Once the levees broke, existing plans should have been put into place but those plans were all left in inaccessible buildings that were abandoned.
The lack of back up comms systems is also a major problem.
The worst part of this is that what happened is all predicted and is in lots of documents that seem to have been completely ignored. Add in a total lack of leaders and its a complete mess.
The OC4 will be fiber all the way to a major exchange building and most of that sort of stuff is way up top. If its a typical telco, they have lots of batteries for the OC4 gear because they tend to build battery packs as if they were for the exchange gear which takes far more power. The result is there is a very expensive fiber switch thats has a direct fiber connection from very far away (maybe as far Dallas or Atlanta) and it has power. The risk to that type of connection is that sometimes the water will cause noise in the fiber splices or the generator will die or someone will break the upstream link while trying to fix something far away.
They want to pay their employees but they can't find the people with the right info. I've seen that before after much smaller disasters and its a key point of disaster recovery.
Having the entire HR and Accounting dept going missing isn't unusual in disaster situations They just don't seem to understand that very rarely their job isn't going be 9 to 5.
If it was my company I would say that the entire departments bonuses will go to the 1st and only the 1st people from one of those two departments that person that provides the needed info 1st.
There wasn't a time when everything was made in a Japan. Go try to buy a toaster that isn't made in China. I don't think you can do it. When Japan was rumored to be making everything, you could still find a US made toaster and a few made in Malaysia or Hong Kong. Now you have only one choice and you don't have a choice about many other things as well from kids bikes, kitchenware, ball point pens and even food, so much is now made in China that if there is ever an economic problem between China and the US (or EU or anyone else), there is simply no place else to get some things. As it stands right now, the US can not have a war with China simply because there are not enough non-Chinese pens to fill out the red tape.
Cite them? This is slashdot and google is your friend. The bell curves for weight and height you can find from several different countries online.
The disease ones you'll need to go to a medical library to find since that info isn't online at least for the general public. if you look you will find things like the flu is slightly more likely to kill healthy males than females but more males will be immune to any give strain. Same for chickenpox in children and a few other viruses.
In general male bell curves are wider than women's. Its true of height, weight, IQ, most diseases. It also appears to be true of others things such as the ability drive (most race car drivers are men and the people with the worst driving records are almost always men). Women tend to have much better language skills on average than men but the most of the best writers are male and in modern countries most of the few illiterate tend to be male as well.
It has to be something about instability of that Y chromosome. The X seems to be much more stable.
It appears that with the new rules, it may be essential to at least attempt to patent every new idea because if the competition files first, then your "invent first" defense may not work anymore. I wonder how that conflicts with other free trade rules. At least this is good for companies that are throwing thousands of patents at the patent office. I guess they are going to get their moines worth.
I've had 7mb wireless to my house for two years. It has been very reliable, its fully encrypted using the same key exchange as CDMA for the wireless link and I can layer ipsec or ssh on top of that and never had interference problems.
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yes it will eat up lots of inodes. And you waste huge amounts of space.
Its better if most people are sending huge attachments but not as good if most users check messages frequently and use mostly plain text messages.
Making it illegal for them will only make GPL enforcement harder
It won't matter unless the GPL also grants end users the right to reverse engineer GPLed code. Right now that is or maybe illegal in most places in the world unless the copyright holder explicitly allows it and none of the common free licenses allow it.
Kaaza (like RIAA) have virtual no real assets.
So what happens....
1) 2 Billion dollar judgment
2) Bankruptcy
3) RIAA has proof that piracy cost them 2 Billion Dollars in losses
4) Profit!
When I'm walking at my fast normal pace, I cover almost exactly 6 km which is 3.7 mph but I can only do that for a bit over an hour. The next hour I'll be off by at least 10% if not 15%. In three hours I expect I'm under 3 mph. If I don't lose any more speed I would cover about 3.7x2+3x10 or 37.4 miles and I could do part of that with a pack on however only about 3 of my friends could keep up with that.
Of course that assumes there is a safe destination. Keep in mind that huge river that could flood anywhere along its banks for hundreds of miles with the winds that were expected. If you go east or west you have to know the storm direction and this time east lost out.
If they left 48 hours out they would have been in a worse situation and in at least 3 out of the last 4 that hit that area that would have been the case. The NWS warning was stating livestock that got hit by flying debris would die in the entire area you claim you could walk in 2 days. Even so how do you find a secure location 50 miles away that is anymore secure that what you left (which you might know has survived other hurricanes?)
48 hours before the storm, they would have had to walk an additional distance because they would not have been allowed to walk over the highway bridges.
Also how about the people that were told to stay in the hotels since they were considered safe but then were kicked out after the storm when the flooding came? They should have stayed in the hotel but were forced to leave. Same goes for some of the hospitals and nursing homes. Then there were the ones like police and utility workers that needed to stay behind for any number of reason.
You want citations for everything? How about looking at the real world? How long does it take you to walk an hour? Are you faster or slower than most? I tend to walk 1 km in 10 minutes yet I walk at least twice as fast as most Japanese women.
Have you ever watched a bunch of people who are of average shape deal with strenuous work for a few hours? There is a reason so many people die while shoveling snow. I've seen too many people that have been hauled out of water because they just couldn't go on any more after just a short time of mild exercise.
A report from the last hurricane indicated about 600,000 out of a million left. The average family that did leave spent something like $1200 (or $1500 I don't remember and can't find the link) on travel, food, hotels and other losses.
Walk where? The entire area within 24 hrs walking distance would have been worse than staying in a low house. Most people can only walk 2 to 4 miles an hour and they can only do that for about 6 hrs if they are in average shape. 12 miles out would get them to the weigh station that is currently being used as a transfer point because its high ground.
Read the NWS storm warnings... these people would have had to walk over 50 miles to get to a point where they might have a chance of survival.
UW also has some of the highest paid donation collectors around. Remember all the guys in suits that come to companies and promise their CEOs that they can come to exclusive parties if they get 100% donations? I know of people who worked for UW that own very nice boats.
I'm not on the sidelines, I'm 1/2 around the world. I'm providing support services for groups dealing with donations.
I've seen enough stuff leveled in tornado alley to know that a serious disaster recovery plan is essential for a companies survival. I also know that dealing the employees in that situation is critical as well. The lack of being able to make contact with a workplace can lead to massive depression after a disaster and the people have a strong emotional need to hear something from their higher up even if that news is "the company gone and we can't do anything else for you". For some reason people respond to that better than not knowing anything.
What a company must do is tell its HR dept. that they must keep in contact with the remote branch if they can. In the case of this company, many of its employees would be much less stressed out if someone would have told everyone "heres our contact number in NY, check in". As it is now, some of the people will be out of cash, with no contact info and even if the Acct people could make payments, they may not be able to since many small banks are out for the count. A simple phone call might be able to get a bit of cash wired to a friends account.
Keep in mind that the HR people are there to deal with the Human Resource issues and that means dealing the employees that have urgent needs such as emergency cash or emotional support for a lost loved-one. I also expect that HR person to have been evacuated far away and is someplace safe where they can at least use a phone.
When it comes to accounting, people are going to have to get paid and the company needs to know who has the checkbook and authority to transfer money.
We may know it's complex, but unless we're intimitely involved we cannot accurately critique the relief effort
I disagree. There was plenty that should have been done but wasn't.
Why weren't there national guard troops stationed in the dome before the situation started. Its typical (even NO law requires it) to have 2 security for the 1st 100 people and something like 1 additional per 100. They estimated 10,000 people so they should have had at least 300 guards on duty (100 x 3 shifts) on duty from at least 12 hrs before the storm hit.
There is spare food and water siting at bases in Texas and Georgia. That should have been loaded on C130s the minute it was clear that things were going to get bad. That should be planned at least 24 hrs ahead and be ready to go. From an AF logistics point of view, its just a matter of adjusting leave schedules so you have the people on the ground to prep the planes and a crew to fly it.
Once the levees broke, existing plans should have been put into place but those plans were all left in inaccessible buildings that were abandoned.
The lack of back up comms systems is also a major problem.
The worst part of this is that what happened is all predicted and is in lots of documents that seem to have been completely ignored. Add in a total lack of leaders and its a complete mess.
The red cross and united way donations are far more likely to end up making a boat payment than most of the others.
The OC4 will be fiber all the way to a major exchange building and most of that sort of stuff is way up top. If its a typical telco, they have lots of batteries for the OC4 gear because they tend to build battery packs as if they were for the exchange gear which takes far more power. The result is there is a very expensive fiber switch thats has a direct fiber connection from very far away (maybe as far Dallas or Atlanta) and it has power. The risk to that type of connection is that sometimes the water will cause noise in the fiber splices or the generator will die or someone will break the upstream link while trying to fix something far away.
They want to pay their employees but they can't find the people with the right info. I've seen that before after much smaller disasters and its a key point of disaster recovery.
Having the entire HR and Accounting dept going missing isn't unusual in disaster situations They just don't seem to understand that very rarely their job isn't going be 9 to 5.
If it was my company I would say that the entire departments bonuses will go to the 1st and only the 1st people from one of those two departments that person that provides the needed info 1st.
There wasn't a time when everything was made in a Japan. Go try to buy a toaster that isn't made in China. I don't think you can do it. When Japan was rumored to be making everything, you could still find a US made toaster and a few made in Malaysia or Hong Kong. Now you have only one choice and you don't have a choice about many other things as well from kids bikes, kitchenware, ball point pens and even food, so much is now made in China that if there is ever an economic problem between China and the US (or EU or anyone else), there is simply no place else to get some things. As it stands right now, the US can not have a war with China simply because there are not enough non-Chinese pens to fill out the red tape.
Cite them? This is slashdot and google is your friend.
The bell curves for weight and height you can find from several different countries online.
The disease ones you'll need to go to a medical library to find since that info isn't online at least for the general public. if you look you will find things like the flu is slightly more likely to kill healthy males than females but more males will be immune to any give strain. Same for chickenpox in children and a few other viruses.
In general male bell curves are wider than women's. Its true of height, weight, IQ, most diseases. It also appears to be true of others things such as the ability drive (most race car drivers are men and the people with the worst driving records are almost always men). Women tend to have much better language skills on average than men but the most of the best writers are male and in modern countries most of the few illiterate tend to be male as well.
It has to be something about instability of that Y chromosome. The X seems to be much more stable.
I've never seen an undergraduate library in a US state university either. The stacks in most state universities are open to the public.
How about structural drawings of the boat they found under the pyramids at Giza?
Can you even buy surgical steel anymore?
It appears that with the new rules, it may be essential to at least attempt to patent every new idea because if the competition files first, then your "invent first" defense may not work anymore. I wonder how that conflicts with other free trade rules. At least this is good for companies that are throwing thousands of patents at the patent office. I guess they are going to get their moines worth.
Gravity can't be >2e10 c since the eclipse pendulum experiments show odd things happening in sync with light (when anything is observed at all).
I've had 7mb wireless to my house for two years. It has been very reliable, its fully encrypted using the same key exchange as CDMA for the wireless link and I can layer ipsec or ssh on top of that and never had interference problems.
What 3rd party telcos? In the landline field can you name 3?
Remember a telco will have a phone swtich, not just resell Telstra services.