On point #2, don't underestimate the powers of a vibrator, and a friendly neighbor who will do handyman work for free. Sometimes they're one in the same.
Well, if you read further, I said more. It wasn't just a FTFY. It's not just lawyers who believe they are smarter than the average citizen because they've gone through college, plenty of folks believe the same thing. Then again, some people are just humble, and you don't know that they are college educated. They have learned a lot, and behave at my level, so they are truly a peer. I knew one person who wanted to be called "Master..." because he had a masters degree. Of course, he was working a lowly support job (like, low in the whole scheme. I'm not berating support folks.) Spending years and thousands of dollars for an education doesn't make a person any better, it only bought them a certificate to hang on the wall to imply that they are better.
I met a good friend of mine at a job we worked at together. He was senior management, and I worked my way through the ranks for a while. From his actions, I knew he was very good at what he did. It wasn't until years later that I found out about his education. He doesn't hang it on the wall to say "respect me", he proves through his behavior that he knows what he's doing, and he has earned my respect. Through my actions I have earned his respect also.
Is that a reference to the antique method of springs and tumblers which can be easily displaced with a pick and a tensioner, or the fact that most residential locks have up to 6 pins cut to one of ten depths (10^6 combinations or less) or the fact that a bump key will open almost any lock that you may encounter?
Honestly, I have met a lot of people and they firmly believe they know everything because they went to college.
FTFY.
But ya, a few years of school doesn't mean you know everything on all topics. That's why competent employers like experience.... and staying with the topic, a jury of your "peers" doesn't mean that they are actually educated in the topic being discussed. I would be a competent peer on a whole variety of topics, but if I was on a jury for medical malpractice I would understand part of it, but definitely wouldn't understand standard operating procedure. That would be spelled out by both sides and their "expert" paid witnesses, so SOP would be skewed towards their side of the case and I would be at the mercy of dumb luck to guess which one was more reliable.
Actually your landlord argument varies by area and contract.
In my experience, with apartments, the management is generally allowed to come inspect as needed. They frequently are checking smoke detectors, leaks from other units, etc. They run into, for example, situations where a leaking pipe in an upper unit causes water damage in a lower unit.
With homes, it's less common for the open access verbage to exist. The more you spend on a rental home, the better (generally) the verbage is for your privacy.
To extend this, the police interviewed my ex-mother-in-law regarding someone who was renting a room. They *wanted* to go into his space, but were legally obliged not to because he had leased that space. She couldn't even legally enter it. Even with her permission, they couldn't go into the room. A little later (like a couple hours), they did secure the proper warrants, and returned. They politely asked to gain access to the room because they did have the proper paperwork.
On port 22, I usually see all kinds of kids trying to get in. On some other port, I see very few, but I know they're actually interested in causing harm. It's not an excuse to have weakened security. When they see it, it's a good sign that they're fighting against a harder target than normal. Is it worth trying to get into this target, or moving on to any number of easier targets?
Most script kiddies like the easy targets. They like the fame of defacing lots of web sites, or rooting boxes to add to their set of drones to do bad things from. If it takes them hours to get into my box, they could likely have gotten into hundreds of other boxes in the same amount of time.
Typically, that's used in conjunction with local firewall rules, so even though you know my know my SSH is on port 1234 (an example), you probably won't even connect unless you're on an authorized network. I prefer to drop access to any unauthorized port which slows their scans down to a crawl. I used to love scanning my network from work (an authorized network) and from home (an unauthorized network). From work, I'd see what ports are possibly open and can attempt penetration attacks. From home, I'd have to leave the scans running for days, just to find a few machines with port 80 open. That was on "my baby" network. It was a network that I nurtured and grew from nothing, to be a large robust distributed network. Now I just manage a few boxes here and there as a hobby. Many things still apply though, so script kiddies don't bother me.:)
People who care about security still keep SSH on the standard port? Stick it on something like 585, and let them think it's IMAP traffic.... or 554 or 8554 and they'll think it's streaming media, and take advantage of the QOS rules.
Well, they'd probably accept a federally issued picture id. He could whip a dollar bill out and say "look, me." Then again, with decomposition, he probably doesn't look much like his pictures any more. That, and folks may get the heebie jeebies when a decomposing zombie comes walking in to pay a bill.:)
Actually, if you read the article (I know, Slashdot, good luck there), they'd like the books back. I'm sure they would. Beyond the normal antique value, there is a higher value because of the holder of the book. They'd probably both sell at auction for a fortune.
At one employer, I had to occasionally run Windows apps, to appease the bosses. It was annoying, but I did it. For that, I had XP installed in a Virtualbox VM. It ran fine. I'd leave it minimized so it didn't bother me while I was doing real work. The hardware wasn't anything exciting. It was a $400 PC from CompUSA (single core AMD64, 2Gb RAM). Everything worked fine, including the occasional request to look at something in MSIE because "hey, it doesn't work in MSIE". Of course, when *I* looked it was fine, and when I went to their desk it worked fine, and it wasn't even really my problem to fix, I was just the "go to guy". I had to use it in the Windows VM, because if I did it in something like IEs4Linux (ick, taint a perfectly good Linux box), they'd say it was because it was in Linux. {sigh}
At home, it didn't work out for me, because I had the occasional urge to play a Windows game, like Microsoft Flight Simulator X. So when I want to play a Windows game, I reboot into Windows and play for an hour, and then back to Linux for everything else.
I thought about this for various reasons. Death notices. Layoff scripts (i.e., do damage if you don't check in). It's all a good idea until some error comes along. What happens if the server reboots and the time is set to something outrageously wrong? Or someone goes and manually resets the time. What if you go on a trip and find it impossible to check in. It's a bit embarrassing for family and friends to get the note. It may be a bit hard to take back after it's sent.
To whom it may concern,
I've written this program to automatically notify you if I were to die or become completely incapacitated. Since I haven't checked in, in the last 7 days, you may now assume the worst. You may want to check with my employer, wife, girlfriend, etc, as applicable at this time in my life (or was).
To my ex, let it be known I hated you the whole way to the grave. See you in hell.
To everyone I owe money to, good luck with that. There is no savings. All of my funds were transfered anonymously, so there's nothing left to you.
To my kids, I hope I taught you well. Good luck with your lives. (BTW, check your Swiss bank accounts).
It costs roughly $15,000 to be put in the ground properly. I've read news reports where families have known that a family member has died, but they've refused to claim the body because they couldn't afford to bury them.
I've seen that here on the other side of the country. I don't remember precisely how much it was though. I think my first estimate was $500, and they lowered it to $150 by trimming a few words and sweet talking the boss. Of course we "just got in, in time". We didn't have much of a choice. We were notified that the coroner was releasing his body after the autopsy, and the funeral home said it would be two days later. It could either go in that day for the paper the next day, or there wouldn't be a printed funeral notice.
I don't know what happened to the idea of "newspaper of record". It used to be that a publication in each area would carry births, deaths, and marriages. That is amazingly helpful to genealogists now. What's going to happen in 100 years, and genealogists have lost one of their major resources?
Bah, everyone on my profiles has at least met me. Then again, most of them knew me from high school. Like, they knew my name, but probably never even talked to me. It's a collection of people who could care less if I kicked it.
In reality, all those who care will be there when I die. The only question will be, will I stay alive long enough for them to all stab me in the back.
I'd actually love to see one that was affordable, easy to wear, and trackable on the computer. Not that I've looked very hard, so someone may already know of one. rrdtool graphs of heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature would be interesting. I'm not much of a hypochondriac. Actually, I usually ignore the fact that I'm not feeling well. A few times, people have told me "you look like shit, are you sick?" and sure enough when I actually check I have a fever. When I've been really sick (like 104+ fever), I've taken my temperature at regular intervals (approx 15 min) and have observed swings in it. It's enough to show that a random sample may not be really indicative of my real state. For normal day to day observations, it would be interesting to see my heart rate through the night. If I have a bad dream, I'd expect my heart rate to be higher. Was that restless night because I just couldn't sleep, or was it plagued by bad dreams that I forgot about by morning?
It's basic for you, if you live there, or have some sort of interest in it. For someone in China or even the US, those countries are just part of that big chunk of land known as Europe. How many people with no relationship to Asia (non-asian and no working ties there) could pick out Shanghai from Beijing without looking at a map?
It sounds funny, but some people in the US think that Seattle, WA is near Washington DC. But to stay with nations, without cheating, where is the Republic of Seychelle? I'll give you a hint, they speak Seychellois Creole, French, and English.
That happens occasionally. They tend to diverge when airlines try to make extra money for standard things like luggage. I forget which airline it was, but they're going to charge for carry on bags.
One of the times I flew in the last year, I got a first class upgrade for $100. I had two bags to check. On coach, the bags were $45/ea. For first class, they got free bags. For a $5 difference, I got better seats, free drinks, better food, and a strong drink before takeoff.:)
He had given precise instructions to the pilot for the flight, which is why he could accomplish it. It was to remain under 10k feet, on a particular heading, with the cabin remaining unpressurized, landing gear and flaps down, and under a particular airspeed. The Cooper Vane is only one problem in the list.
Being that an aircraft will normally be pressurized, much higher, and much faster, it would be much messier if people tried to jump. Well that is assuming they could even get the doors open.
I'd be pretty sure no airline would really do it. You're absolutely right, the cost of the aircraft is worth more than ticket revenue for a single flight.
I was reading up about some previous incidents of jet aircraft vs volcanic ash. One of them lost all 4 engines in the ash cloud, but was able to restart the engines after clearing the cloud. Even though they landed safely, there was $80 million worth of damage to the aircraft, including needing to replace all four engines. The pilot wasn't sure if he was entering a regular cloud formation or an ash cloud.
$80 million in damage plus the revenue lost while that plane was being rebuilt isn't worth it for the ticket revenue generated during the period where they stay grounded. If one goes down, the losses both of liability and reputation would hurt them worse.
Oh, there are plenty of risks involved. Visibility is one of the low ones.
Inside the engines it will melt (per TFA) and block passages. It is extremely abrasive, so it will do a nice job of sandblasting the outer surfaces of the aircraft and interior airflow surfaces of the engine. It will also stick anywhere any everywhere. You think icing does a number on the aerodynamic surfaces, imagine what powdered rock will do. Dropping like a rock will seem more appropriate when the first one falls out of the air.
I'd imagine the avionics would be the first lethal problem before the others cause catastrophic problems. Ice in a pitot can be melted with the pitot tube heater. Powdered rock stuffed in one is less easy to mitigate.
I could just see something like that happening. A plane going down with no power and no controls, passengers going to the nearest exits. People getting stomped on trying to make their way to the exits. Some people jumping out the front doors, just to get hit by the wing or engines. Oh and of course those people who panic at the last second and can't step off the ledge. How many people can they get from a plane from under 10k feet before it hits the ground? I think most peoples chances are better with staying buckled in and praying. (Chance of prayer saving your ass from 10k feet, 0%)
Come on, this is Slashdot. Most people who haven't ever left their native area are oblivious to where other places are. You could ask most Americans where the border between Quebec and British Columbia is, and they'd point to some arbitrary place. I'd be willing to guess at least half may point to somewhere in Canada. Some may see "British" and point to somewhere in or near the UK.
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On point #2, don't underestimate the powers of a vibrator, and a friendly neighbor who will do handyman work for free. Sometimes they're one in the same.
Disclaimer: Friendly neighborhood handyman license #OIFKDURWIFE.
Well, if you read further, I said more. It wasn't just a FTFY. It's not just lawyers who believe they are smarter than the average citizen because they've gone through college, plenty of folks believe the same thing. Then again, some people are just humble, and you don't know that they are college educated. They have learned a lot, and behave at my level, so they are truly a peer. I knew one person who wanted to be called "Master ..." because he had a masters degree. Of course, he was working a lowly support job (like, low in the whole scheme. I'm not berating support folks.) Spending years and thousands of dollars for an education doesn't make a person any better, it only bought them a certificate to hang on the wall to imply that they are better.
I met a good friend of mine at a job we worked at together. He was senior management, and I worked my way through the ranks for a while. From his actions, I knew he was very good at what he did. It wasn't until years later that I found out about his education. He doesn't hang it on the wall to say "respect me", he proves through his behavior that he knows what he's doing, and he has earned my respect. Through my actions I have earned his respect also.
Is that a reference to the antique method of springs and tumblers which can be easily displaced with a pick and a tensioner, or the fact that most residential locks have up to 6 pins cut to one of ten depths (10^6 combinations or less) or the fact that a bump key will open almost any lock that you may encounter?
FTFY.
But ya, a few years of school doesn't mean you know everything on all topics. That's why competent employers like experience. ... and staying with the topic, a jury of your "peers" doesn't mean that they are actually educated in the topic being discussed. I would be a competent peer on a whole variety of topics, but if I was on a jury for medical malpractice I would understand part of it, but definitely wouldn't understand standard operating procedure. That would be spelled out by both sides and their "expert" paid witnesses, so SOP would be skewed towards their side of the case and I would be at the mercy of dumb luck to guess which one was more reliable.
Actually your landlord argument varies by area and contract.
In my experience, with apartments, the management is generally allowed to come inspect as needed. They frequently are checking smoke detectors, leaks from other units, etc. They run into, for example, situations where a leaking pipe in an upper unit causes water damage in a lower unit.
With homes, it's less common for the open access verbage to exist. The more you spend on a rental home, the better (generally) the verbage is for your privacy.
To extend this, the police interviewed my ex-mother-in-law regarding someone who was renting a room. They *wanted* to go into his space, but were legally obliged not to because he had leased that space. She couldn't even legally enter it. Even with her permission, they couldn't go into the room. A little later (like a couple hours), they did secure the proper warrants, and returned. They politely asked to gain access to the room because they did have the proper paperwork.
You hit my reasons perfectly.
On port 22, I usually see all kinds of kids trying to get in. On some other port, I see very few, but I know they're actually interested in causing harm. It's not an excuse to have weakened security. When they see it, it's a good sign that they're fighting against a harder target than normal. Is it worth trying to get into this target, or moving on to any number of easier targets?
Most script kiddies like the easy targets. They like the fame of defacing lots of web sites, or rooting boxes to add to their set of drones to do bad things from. If it takes them hours to get into my box, they could likely have gotten into hundreds of other boxes in the same amount of time.
Typically, that's used in conjunction with local firewall rules, so even though you know my know my SSH is on port 1234 (an example), you probably won't even connect unless you're on an authorized network. I prefer to drop access to any unauthorized port which slows their scans down to a crawl. I used to love scanning my network from work (an authorized network) and from home (an unauthorized network). From work, I'd see what ports are possibly open and can attempt penetration attacks. From home, I'd have to leave the scans running for days, just to find a few machines with port 80 open. That was on "my baby" network. It was a network that I nurtured and grew from nothing, to be a large robust distributed network. Now I just manage a few boxes here and there as a hobby. Many things still apply though, so script kiddies don't bother me. :)
Wow, that's almost identical to the code in everything I do, except it's:
If Request.Form("password") = "1234" Then
Response.Write("superuser access granted")
Set Godmode=1
I knew I must have been doing something right, if that's what they did too. :)
People who care about security still keep SSH on the standard port? Stick it on something like 585, and let them think it's IMAP traffic. ... or 554 or 8554 and they'll think it's streaming media, and take advantage of the QOS rules.
Well, they'd probably accept a federally issued picture id. He could whip a dollar bill out and say "look, me." Then again, with decomposition, he probably doesn't look much like his pictures any more. That, and folks may get the heebie jeebies when a decomposing zombie comes walking in to pay a bill. :)
Actually, if you read the article (I know, Slashdot, good luck there), they'd like the books back. I'm sure they would. Beyond the normal antique value, there is a higher value because of the holder of the book. They'd probably both sell at auction for a fortune.
Yup, it totally depends on the situation.
At one employer, I had to occasionally run Windows apps, to appease the bosses. It was annoying, but I did it. For that, I had XP installed in a Virtualbox VM. It ran fine. I'd leave it minimized so it didn't bother me while I was doing real work. The hardware wasn't anything exciting. It was a $400 PC from CompUSA (single core AMD64, 2Gb RAM). Everything worked fine, including the occasional request to look at something in MSIE because "hey, it doesn't work in MSIE". Of course, when *I* looked it was fine, and when I went to their desk it worked fine, and it wasn't even really my problem to fix, I was just the "go to guy". I had to use it in the Windows VM, because if I did it in something like IEs4Linux (ick, taint a perfectly good Linux box), they'd say it was because it was in Linux. {sigh}
At home, it didn't work out for me, because I had the occasional urge to play a Windows game, like Microsoft Flight Simulator X. So when I want to play a Windows game, I reboot into Windows and play for an hour, and then back to Linux for everything else.
What an odd coincidence, I've sent notes to the IRS for the last 15 years saying "I died, I'm not paying you anything."
They keep sending notes back, "No you're not, and now you owe us more interest."
I thought about this for various reasons. Death notices. Layoff scripts (i.e., do damage if you don't check in). It's all a good idea until some error comes along. What happens if the server reboots and the time is set to something outrageously wrong? Or someone goes and manually resets the time. What if you go on a trip and find it impossible to check in. It's a bit embarrassing for family and friends to get the note. It may be a bit hard to take back after it's sent.
To whom it may concern,
I've written this program to automatically notify you if I were to die or become completely incapacitated. Since I haven't checked in, in the last 7 days, you may now assume the worst. You may want to check with my employer, wife, girlfriend, etc, as applicable at this time in my life (or was).
To my ex, let it be known I hated you the whole way to the grave. See you in hell.
To everyone I owe money to, good luck with that. There is no savings. All of my funds were transfered anonymously, so there's nothing left to you.
To my kids, I hope I taught you well. Good luck with your lives. (BTW, check your Swiss bank accounts).
Sincerely,
The late JW Smythe
It costs roughly $15,000 to be put in the ground properly. I've read news reports where families have known that a family member has died, but they've refused to claim the body because they couldn't afford to bury them.
I've seen that here on the other side of the country. I don't remember precisely how much it was though. I think my first estimate was $500, and they lowered it to $150 by trimming a few words and sweet talking the boss. Of course we "just got in, in time". We didn't have much of a choice. We were notified that the coroner was releasing his body after the autopsy, and the funeral home said it would be two days later. It could either go in that day for the paper the next day, or there wouldn't be a printed funeral notice.
I don't know what happened to the idea of "newspaper of record". It used to be that a publication in each area would carry births, deaths, and marriages. That is amazingly helpful to genealogists now. What's going to happen in 100 years, and genealogists have lost one of their major resources?
Bah, everyone on my profiles has at least met me. Then again, most of them knew me from high school. Like, they knew my name, but probably never even talked to me. It's a collection of people who could care less if I kicked it.
In reality, all those who care will be there when I die. The only question will be, will I stay alive long enough for them to all stab me in the back.
Et tu, Brute?
I'd actually love to see one that was affordable, easy to wear, and trackable on the computer. Not that I've looked very hard, so someone may already know of one. rrdtool graphs of heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature would be interesting. I'm not much of a hypochondriac. Actually, I usually ignore the fact that I'm not feeling well. A few times, people have told me "you look like shit, are you sick?" and sure enough when I actually check I have a fever. When I've been really sick (like 104+ fever), I've taken my temperature at regular intervals (approx 15 min) and have observed swings in it. It's enough to show that a random sample may not be really indicative of my real state. For normal day to day observations, it would be interesting to see my heart rate through the night. If I have a bad dream, I'd expect my heart rate to be higher. Was that restless night because I just couldn't sleep, or was it plagued by bad dreams that I forgot about by morning?
It's basic for you, if you live there, or have some sort of interest in it. For someone in China or even the US, those countries are just part of that big chunk of land known as Europe. How many people with no relationship to Asia (non-asian and no working ties there) could pick out Shanghai from Beijing without looking at a map?
It sounds funny, but some people in the US think that Seattle, WA is near Washington DC. But to stay with nations, without cheating, where is the Republic of Seychelle? I'll give you a hint, they speak Seychellois Creole, French, and English.
That happens occasionally. They tend to diverge when airlines try to make extra money for standard things like luggage. I forget which airline it was, but they're going to charge for carry on bags.
One of the times I flew in the last year, I got a first class upgrade for $100. I had two bags to check. On coach, the bags were $45/ea. For first class, they got free bags. For a $5 difference, I got better seats, free drinks, better food, and a strong drink before takeoff. :)
He had given precise instructions to the pilot for the flight, which is why he could accomplish it. It was to remain under 10k feet, on a particular heading, with the cabin remaining unpressurized, landing gear and flaps down, and under a particular airspeed. The Cooper Vane is only one problem in the list.
Being that an aircraft will normally be pressurized, much higher, and much faster, it would be much messier if people tried to jump. Well that is assuming they could even get the doors open.
I'd be pretty sure no airline would really do it. You're absolutely right, the cost of the aircraft is worth more than ticket revenue for a single flight.
I was reading up about some previous incidents of jet aircraft vs volcanic ash. One of them lost all 4 engines in the ash cloud, but was able to restart the engines after clearing the cloud. Even though they landed safely, there was $80 million worth of damage to the aircraft, including needing to replace all four engines. The pilot wasn't sure if he was entering a regular cloud formation or an ash cloud.
$80 million in damage plus the revenue lost while that plane was being rebuilt isn't worth it for the ticket revenue generated during the period where they stay grounded. If one goes down, the losses both of liability and reputation would hurt them worse.
Nope, the question was asked intentionally, so the proper response would be that the border doesn't exist.
Pointing to anywhere on the map (i.e., an arbitrary place) would be wrong regardless of where they pointed.
Thanks for playing.
Oh, there are plenty of risks involved. Visibility is one of the low ones.
Inside the engines it will melt (per TFA) and block passages. It is extremely abrasive, so it will do a nice job of sandblasting the outer surfaces of the aircraft and interior airflow surfaces of the engine. It will also stick anywhere any everywhere. You think icing does a number on the aerodynamic surfaces, imagine what powdered rock will do. Dropping like a rock will seem more appropriate when the first one falls out of the air.
I'd imagine the avionics would be the first lethal problem before the others cause catastrophic problems. Ice in a pitot can be melted with the pitot tube heater. Powdered rock stuffed in one is less easy to mitigate.
I could just see something like that happening. A plane going down with no power and no controls, passengers going to the nearest exits. People getting stomped on trying to make their way to the exits. Some people jumping out the front doors, just to get hit by the wing or engines. Oh and of course those people who panic at the last second and can't step off the ledge. How many people can they get from a plane from under 10k feet before it hits the ground? I think most peoples chances are better with staying buckled in and praying. (Chance of prayer saving your ass from 10k feet, 0%)
Come on, this is Slashdot. Most people who haven't ever left their native area are oblivious to where other places are. You could ask most Americans where the border between Quebec and British Columbia is, and they'd point to some arbitrary place. I'd be willing to guess at least half may point to somewhere in Canada. Some may see "British" and point to somewhere in or near the UK.
The same applies to plenty of people and places.