Philly's Chestnut St is like that for a large portion on the west side of the scuykill (sp?) river. What throws it off every now and then are that the lights are so old they're still running off mechanical equipment and have to be manually calibrated every now and then. (If you're on corner with the control box waiting to cross you can hear the clunk when the colors change.) The trouble starts when the gears get stuck in cold weather or there's a power outage, which is what happened near 43rd. It then takes forever for a recalibration to be performed.
Walnut St is supposed to be like this too (timed lights), but I've never observed it working properly. Walnut & Chestnut are complementing one-way streets a block apart going opposite directions from Front St (fancy name for 1st St) to 63rd, so people drive into Center City for work on Chestnut and leave via Walnut.
i was told by a traffic engineering friend of mine that there are detectors out there that look for the strobe lights that apart of a emergency vehicle's blinkinlights, and change the light colors accordingly. I would assume that normal headlights are distinguishable from emergency lights (otherwise the detectors would be useless).
Are these the same detectors discussed in the article?
reminds me of a 'Give me a Break' John Stossel once did on 20/20. It was over the Spike Lee / Spike TV flap a few months back (IIRC). He joked he could sue everyone who everyone who ever used the line 'give me a break' in a TV show, movie, play, book, song, etc., while showing clips of famous actors using the line.
If Bill O'Reilly were to take this on, it would be the ultimate of ironies: A journalist calling his own network to the carpet!
i heard about this when it appeared on fark. one of the stranger things was that they (Fox News) dont want The Simpsons to use the crawler at the bottom at all, fearing confusion. I ask you: How dense does somebody have to be to confuse a cartoon show against a live person cable television news network?
this issue (full disclosure vs. cooperative disclosure vs. total secrecy) is one of those gun-control-type topics in software security. there's always gonna be people in each camp with opinions that just will not change no matter the argument or rationale presented.
getting them together in this type of setting may convert a few people from one camp to another, make some knowledgable of the arguments at hand, but I doubt it'll do anything useful in the long term to solve the issue because of those who will stick to their guns (no pun intended).
interesting question. I know that for my Software Engineering text (by Ian Sommerville, 6th edition), the book contained British spellings for everything, for example "cheque," yet I think was published in the US. I dont have the book in front of me (it's at work), so I cant confirm.
In Southern New Jersey, there's a joke that you can give directions based on locations of Wawas.
Sometimes you end up giving directions like "Get off 295 at Rt 30, go east about 6 miles, after passing two Wawas, turn right at the following light. Then go 2 miles and you'll see another Wawa. Turn left. etc etc"
This usually requires knowing what a Wawa is, and that's leads to another joke about SJ and Wawa: "You know you're from South Jersey if you know what a Wawa is, and can easily name the location of about ten of them."
(BTW - brownie points for figuring out what road town you'll end up at by following the above directions. Let's see Mapquest figure THAT out!)
State law requires sports teams are prohibited from using an out-of-state name. The New York Giants and New York Jets are examples of how this has not been enforced - they share Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.
(Though I do like how the joke gets occasionally made about Buffalo being NY State's only pro football team. I also like how I dont have to get out of my car when it needs gas, and how NJ still has lower gas rates than most states.)
ok. after I RTFA'd, I see what's going on. The impending number-portability regulation can allow what used to be residential phone numbers to become cell phone numbers, and if that person didnt sign up for the DNC list, they could (more likely will) receive telemarketing calls. The story is about there not being any kind of list or something from the FCC allowing telemarketers to look up whether a number is or isn't a cell phone.
i thought telemarkets calling cell phones was already banned? or is this one of those "they can call you if you've done previous business with them in the last year?"
this entire thing with journalists being asked for records about Lamo was written off as one agent acting without proper authority or authorization. thus, the point Declan is trying to make is a moot point.
What's a moot point, you ask? Think of a sports match where a bad call or decision is made against you or your team, but you still win at the end of the match. The blown call is now a moot point.
There is the idea of IP address portability already. One person mentioned DNS already, but there's also two otehr ideas:
mobile addressing, where a node retains it's IP address regardless of what network it is attached to. Various protocols exist to handle this idea, such as forwarding packets from the 'home network' (where the IP address is expected to be located) to where that node is currently resides. other techniques exist, any good networking book should discuss it. (eg, Kurose & Ross 2e chapter 4.9)
there's also the idea of a company who changes their ISP but retains their chunk of IP addresses. route aggregation and the longest matching prefix rule are used to have the data packets get delivered to the proper place during routing. again, any good networks book should cover it. (ie, Kurose & Ross 2e page 327)
no, you're not old enough. I remember the $500 toilet seat and $100 for a hammer. (ok, maybe not precise numbers, but you get the idea)
A prof at school told us the story of the $5000 coffee pot for the air force. He joked that an F-16 could be blown to bits by enemy fire or in a crash, but the pilot could enjoy a cup-of-joe while parachuting down to the ground.
either bad movies or bad names that no one can pronounce, thus leading to lack of ticket sales. i could just see how such a box-office scene would play out:
moviegoer: two for jigly please pimply-faced-kid: wha? m: gigy. p: huh? m: zhe-he p: i beg your pardon? m: ah screw it, two for seabiscuit!
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some people somehow have this notion from some alarmist that says they'll check that ID everywhere you go and track you from point to point.
IMO, simple legislation that provides baseline standards for government-issued ID cards (eg, driver licenses) to have anti-fraud features are all that's needed.
I live in NJ, the state with the license that's easiest to forge. It's easy for someone to walk into a DMV, claim to be so-and-so, and say that they've lost their license. All you need is something like mother's maiden name. Numerous college students use this technique to get fake-IDs to buy alcohol, etc. (I should point out, NJ has changed this, and are phasing in new licenses over thenext few years, along with guidelines that require more than just mother's maiden name)
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Indeed. When explaining concepts in computer security to non-techy types, the hardest part is how "security" is actually a trade-off. Car safety makes an excellent analogy.
For example, almost everyone can understand that no car is completely immune from accidents, along with unavoidable injury if an accident is bad enough. Hence, lessen injury by wearing seat belts or driving a car with air bags. You may still have injuries in an accident, but the injury is far less damaging than without belts or bags.
Likewise, no computer is hack proof. We all know why, so I wont bother explaing here. But to help explain this to non-techs, I draw this comparison: In order for there to be a car where occupants are injury-free after an accident, the car's gas efficiency would be interpreted not in miles-per-gallon, but rather gallons-per-mile. Why? Because of the sheer weight such a car would have to be.
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if not the olsens then maybe Dolly the Sheep?
let me get this straight - you can drive around new york without any trouble whatsoever, but not boston? what's wrong with this picture?
not only can people sue MccyD's for making them fat and obese, they can now sue them for hearing loss!!
Philly's Chestnut St is like that for a large portion on the west side of the scuykill (sp?) river. What throws it off every now and then are that the lights are so old they're still running off mechanical equipment and have to be manually calibrated every now and then. (If you're on corner with the control box waiting to cross you can hear the clunk when the colors change.) The trouble starts when the gears get stuck in cold weather or there's a power outage, which is what happened near 43rd. It then takes forever for a recalibration to be performed.
Walnut St is supposed to be like this too (timed lights), but I've never observed it working properly. Walnut & Chestnut are complementing one-way streets a block apart going opposite directions from Front St (fancy name for 1st St) to 63rd, so people drive into Center City for work on Chestnut and leave via Walnut.
i was told by a traffic engineering friend of mine that there are detectors out there that look for the strobe lights that apart of a emergency vehicle's blinkinlights, and change the light colors accordingly. I would assume that normal headlights are distinguishable from emergency lights (otherwise the detectors would be useless).
Are these the same detectors discussed in the article?
lets just hope that the attorneys pushing for stiffer guidelines dont Bork the process ;-)
reminds me of a 'Give me a Break' John Stossel once did on 20/20. It was over the Spike Lee / Spike TV flap a few months back (IIRC). He joked he could sue everyone who everyone who ever used the line 'give me a break' in a TV show, movie, play, book, song, etc., while showing clips of famous actors using the line.
If Bill O'Reilly were to take this on, it would be the ultimate of ironies: A journalist calling his own network to the carpet!
i heard about this when it appeared on fark. one of the stranger things was that they (Fox News) dont want The Simpsons to use the crawler at the bottom at all, fearing confusion. I ask you: How dense does somebody have to be to confuse a cartoon show against a live person cable television news network?
the farmer who took his rifle and fired shots at the town water tower, thinking it was a spacecraft.
this issue (full disclosure vs. cooperative disclosure vs. total secrecy) is one of those gun-control-type topics in software security. there's always gonna be people in each camp with opinions that just will not change no matter the argument or rationale presented.
getting them together in this type of setting may convert a few people from one camp to another, make some knowledgable of the arguments at hand, but I doubt it'll do anything useful in the long term to solve the issue because of those who will stick to their guns (no pun intended).
interesting question. I know that for my Software Engineering text (by Ian Sommerville, 6th edition), the book contained British spellings for everything, for example "cheque," yet I think was published in the US. I dont have the book in front of me (it's at work), so I cant confirm.
provided you dont plug in the power cord.
In Southern New Jersey, there's a joke that you can give directions based on locations of Wawas.
Sometimes you end up giving directions like "Get off 295 at Rt 30, go east about 6 miles, after passing two Wawas, turn right at the following light. Then go 2 miles and you'll see another Wawa. Turn left. etc etc"
This usually requires knowing what a Wawa is, and that's leads to another joke about SJ and Wawa: "You know you're from South Jersey if you know what a Wawa is, and can easily name the location of about ten of them."
(BTW - brownie points for figuring out what road town you'll end up at by following the above directions. Let's see Mapquest figure THAT out!)
security is also the top "Windows Worries" (see page 3), along with high costs. Costs happened to be a big highlight for favoring Linux.
missing for NJ:
State law requires sports teams are prohibited from using an out-of-state name. The New York Giants and New York Jets are examples of how this has not been enforced - they share Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.
(Though I do like how the joke gets occasionally made about Buffalo being NY State's only pro football team. I also like how I dont have to get out of my car when it needs gas, and how NJ still has lower gas rates than most states.)
ok. after I RTFA'd, I see what's going on. The impending number-portability regulation can allow what used to be residential phone numbers to become cell phone numbers, and if that person didnt sign up for the DNC list, they could (more likely will) receive telemarketing calls. The story is about there not being any kind of list or something from the FCC allowing telemarketers to look up whether a number is or isn't a cell phone.
i thought telemarkets calling cell phones was already banned? or is this one of those "they can call you if you've done previous business with them in the last year?"
this entire thing with journalists being asked for records about Lamo was written off as one agent acting without proper authority or authorization. thus, the point Declan is trying to make is a moot point.
It was discussed in this Slashback.
What's a moot point, you ask? Think of a sports match where a bad call or decision is made against you or your team, but you still win at the end of the match. The blown call is now a moot point.
There is the idea of IP address portability already. One person mentioned DNS already, but there's also two otehr ideas:
mobile addressing, where a node retains it's IP address regardless of what network it is attached to. Various protocols exist to handle this idea, such as forwarding packets from the 'home network' (where the IP address is expected to be located) to where that node is currently resides. other techniques exist, any good networking book should discuss it. (eg, Kurose & Ross 2e chapter 4.9)
there's also the idea of a company who changes their ISP but retains their chunk of IP addresses. route aggregation and the longest matching prefix rule are used to have the data packets get delivered to the proper place during routing. again, any good networks book should cover it. (ie, Kurose & Ross 2e page 327)
no, you're not old enough. I remember the $500 toilet seat and $100 for a hammer. (ok, maybe not precise numbers, but you get the idea)
A prof at school told us the story of the $5000 coffee pot for the air force. He joked that an F-16 could be blown to bits by enemy fire or in a crash, but the pilot could enjoy a cup-of-joe while parachuting down to the ground.
either bad movies or bad names that no one can pronounce, thus leading to lack of ticket sales. i could just see how such a box-office scene would play out:
moviegoer: two for jigly please
pimply-faced-kid: wha?
m: gigy.
p: huh?
m: zhe-he
p: i beg your pardon?
m: ah screw it, two for seabiscuit!
Dont forget The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
some people somehow have this notion from some alarmist that says they'll check that ID everywhere you go and track you from point to point.
IMO, simple legislation that provides baseline standards for government-issued ID cards (eg, driver licenses) to have anti-fraud features are all that's needed.
I live in NJ, the state with the license that's easiest to forge. It's easy for someone to walk into a DMV, claim to be so-and-so, and say that they've lost their license. All you need is something like mother's maiden name. Numerous college students use this technique to get fake-IDs to buy alcohol, etc. (I should point out, NJ has changed this, and are phasing in new licenses over thenext few years, along with guidelines that require more than just mother's maiden name)
Indeed. When explaining concepts in computer security to non-techy types, the hardest part is how "security" is actually a trade-off. Car safety makes an excellent analogy.
For example, almost everyone can understand that no car is completely immune from accidents, along with unavoidable injury if an accident is bad enough. Hence, lessen injury by wearing seat belts or driving a car with air bags. You may still have injuries in an accident, but the injury is far less damaging than without belts or bags.
Likewise, no computer is hack proof. We all know why, so I wont bother explaing here. But to help explain this to non-techs, I draw this comparison: In order for there to be a car where occupants are injury-free after an accident, the car's gas efficiency would be interpreted not in miles-per-gallon, but rather gallons-per-mile. Why? Because of the sheer weight such a car would have to be.
/me now waiting for the "Copyright Bit" to be introduced in an RFC next April 1.
Then again, almost all IP packets would have that bit set to 1, since webpages are copyrighted, USENET posts, etc.