I work for a tiny piss-ant company with a name that makes no sense. The owner wanted his 15 or so employees to sign a form he found on the net and filled in the values on. It said we could not work in our field for 10 years after we quit (I guess we were to flip burgers) and if we did we were to pay him $100,000.
I wasn't here yet, but my co-workers (who don't strike me as rabble-rousers) all refused to sign it, and it went away.
Apparently humans are perpetual motion machines that produce more energy than goes into them in the form of food, and we are far more efficient (even with the whole electric Matrix thing and the risk of taking over the world) than lower life forms, like cows, or algae.
Solar provides the most energy when it's sunniest. People use the most energy when it's sunniest. Synergy.
Nobody has ever argued that solar is the panacea and will solve all our energy problems and serve you breakfast in bed. It is one component of a mix of renewable energies that will be the solution. Solar, wind, hydro, wave, bio, fission, fusion some day...
But yes, a Manhattan-project for energy storage probably would be a good idea, as it would advance electric cars and help everyone with their little gadgets, too, and make someone very, very, very rich.
When the lake has a few inches of water in it and freezes over, the ice locks onto the rock and the slightest wind blowing on those millions of square feet of ice will drag the ice (and rock) around. I believe this has already been tested decades ago, but if not is easily testable.
Next "scientist-baffling"-pseudo-science-urban-legend, please.
For the same reason my bank charges me a fee for not installing an ATM where I need one and not providing me the service I require and therefore forcing me to use a competitor's ATM which also charges me: because they can.
First of all, SIP sniffers with GUIs that can monitor calls have been around a long time.
Second, if you already have direct access to the network, the victim has bigger problems than a SIP sniffer. Why not corrupt the TFTP server and own every phone?
Third, on any plausible network, having a trojan on one PC would only let you sniff that PC's traffic. I'm going to assume they set up a fake network with hubs from the 1990s.
That article is horrible, and obviously written by someone with zero VoIP experience. Starting with the first paragraph: you don't need a proof-of-concept for something that is old hat, all this has been done before, this is no one's "worst case nightmare," it is easily defeatable with TLS or SRTP or ZRTP.
One thing I did learn from this article: it must be very easy to start your own consulting company and get into the news.
That's one hypothesis. Another is that the decision was based on emotion, not logic, and no amount of consequences will matter or even be noticed. Management will get their bonuses no matter what, and if a devision does suffer enough they will just lay off some workers.
The more I learn about medicine, the more I learn it's based on money and urban legend.
Circumcision, tonsillectomy, lobotomy, having women lie down during birth: these are all fads, past or current. Circumcision alone is apparently a $600,000,000 industry of unnecessary, painful, irreversible cosmetic surgery on infants who cannot give consent. Why are we practicing medicine based on fads and not science?
Then there are the stories about how much lobbying and marketing affects diagnosis.
But I have always wondered about fevers. I thought a fever is the body's way to fight an infection, yet doctors always want you to lower your fever. Who is wrong? I sure hope it's me...
There is a HUGE variation in the quality of CFLs. I bought one that flickered to life for about 10 seconds. I returned it. Walmart and other cheap places sell bulbs that take 1 to 5 minutes to gain full brightness. I've returned those, too. Others turn on instantly.
Look for bulbs that claim to turn on instantly with no flicker. If they don't perform as claimed, take them back or exchange them. You aren't helping anyone by buying inferior products and then throwing them away. You can often get them in 4 packs for $10, or even free after rebate.
CFLs can be finicky. If you put them in a hot recessed can that can potentially shorten their life, but mine have been fine for years. As for your basement, CFLs don't like cold and take a long time to warm up due to low energy waste, so if you live in the North you might have to stick to 19th century bulbs down there, or regular fluorescents.
I just had one CFL burn out that I bought in 1999 +/-. I had others die after a few months, usually when used outdoors. I love them, though. Not only do they save me 75% on lighting, but they save me on air conditioning too, which in south Texas is pretty expensive, e.g. $250 a month. And you can really feel the difference at my kitchen table with 5 60w bulbs blazing away.
I used to have incandescents with photo switches outside, until one day I realized it would be 50% cheaper to run CFLs 24/7 than to run the incandescents just at night. Then I found a CFL-safe timer on Amazon for more savings.
My Sony DVD player kept freezing up and turning off, refusing to even eject the disc. I researched it online and roughly half the posts mentioned the same issue and some had called Sony. I called Sony and they not only denied ever hearing of the problem, and refused to let me send them any information, but they wanted me to pat something like $269 just to LOOK at the player, plus parts, labor and shipping.
Instead, I made a sandwich of multiple layers of tinfoil and silver paste to make the main processor contact the "heat sink" (it's top was originally attached to a frame piece with double-sided sticky tape -- well known for it's long term reliability and heat conduction properties) and it has worked fine since. Of course now I use a $40 divx player, but it's still a good story.
Now if only I could figure out why my Sony receiver randomly crashes and either mutes or blasts noise until I reboot it.
It is exactly the same where I work: 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 number, 2 special, and varying length requirements up to 16 characters, and you need to change them every 2-4 weeks with no re-use, and I must have 10-15 different systems to log into each with it's own password.
I have a very busy sticky note in my desk drawer. Security accomplished.
Nuh uh, they all chat me and they tell me everything I want to hear and love everything I love and are into everything I'm into and they all are sexual goddesses, and one day I will totally meet one of them in RL.
Not to defend any sloppy programming or unnecessary ware on hardware, but is this really that big of an issue?
At that rate, it will take you 8571.4 hours to hit that limit. For an evening user like me, even at 4 hours a day every day that's 2142.9 days, or 5.87 years. I'm used to Maxtors dying after 3 or so years, and my Seagates are usually obsolete (or dropped) in that amount of time, and that's on a desktop. I'm assuming not many laptops survive 6 years at all, or at least are used regularly that long.
Even a road warrior using it 60 hours a week would take 2.6 years, and it hasn't been my experience that laptops survive long with that kind of use.
PS: this article really should have been called "Ubuntu considered harmful"
I've noticed that for the last few months Google Maps doesn't work after a few clicks. Your first search will work, then you can zoom in or out a couple times, and then after that not a single new map square will load. Starting over from scratch doesn't help -- nothing will load. The map will be blank squares with errors messages.
Doing the same operation from either of my work networks or from my phone results in perfect operation.
Correction: if you have done nothing ***the goverment considers wrong*** you have nothing to hide.
What the govenrment cosiders wrong is subject to change at any time, without warning or restriction, you milage may very, contents may settle during rendition.
PS: As for your sig, how about "Conservatives: nominate Ron Paul, the ONLY Republican candidate who does not want to preemptivly start a thermonuclear world war III. Liberals: for the love of God, make sure none of those nut cases get into power."
If that's true that scares the hell out of me... Are you sure it's not the commentary that's copyrighted? I guess I never thought about translations before...
Anyway, IIRC it was the King James version, and I think, under US law, his copyright expired last month.
Point #2 is already moot: the AP journalists who conducted the tests were downloading the Bible. I DARE Comcast, the RIAA and BSA to argue that reading the Bible should be illegal.
Personally I will never fly on a plane that allows this. Maybe if there is a no-cell-phone area. Or even better, no cell phones, no babies, no teenage girls and no Europeans. But I digress.
In addition to annoying the shit out of everyone around you, there is a serious risk that devices like this will eventually crash a plane. I already posted this as a reply to another comment, hopefully I wont get filtered, but here is what the IEEE Spectrum says:
Unsafe At Any Airspeed? March 01, 2006 Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/mar06/3069 [ieee.org] [...] In March 2004, acting on a number of reports from general aviation pilots that Samsung SPH-N300 cellphones had caused their GPS receivers to lose satellite lock, NASA issued a technical memorandum that described emissions from this popular phone. It reported that there were emissions in the GPS band capable of causing interference. Disturbingly, though, they were low enough to comply with FCC emissions standards. [...] In one telling incident, a flight crew stated that a 30-degree navigation error was immediately corrected after a passenger turned off a DVD player and that the error reoccurred when the curious crew asked the passenger to switch the player on again. Game electronics and laptops were the culprits in other reports in which the crew verified in the same way that a particular PED caused erratic navigation indications.
Hmmm, not the article I was looking for, but here's some examples:
Unsafe At Any Airspeed? March 01, 2006 Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/mar06/3069 [...] In March 2004, acting on a number of reports from general aviation pilots that Samsung SPH-N300 cellphones had caused their GPS receivers to lose satellite lock, NASA issued a technical memorandum that described emissions from this popular phone. It reported that there were emissions in the GPS band capable of causing interference. Disturbingly, though, they were low enough to comply with FCC emissions standards. [...] In one telling incident, a flight crew stated that a 30-degree navigation error was immediately corrected after a passenger turned off a DVD player and that the error reoccurred when the curious crew asked the passenger to switch the player on again. Game electronics and laptops were the culprits in other reports in which the crew verified in the same way that a particular PED caused erratic navigation indications.
Despite what an economic magazine says about the realities of electromagnetic interference in damaged or otherwise non-optimal hardware, I think I will go with 1) what engineers say and 2) what the pilot log books say. Those logs include some pretty scary things, including a laptop that was proven to cause an airliner to bank.
I am searching for the article but having trouble. Can't remember if it was in the IEEE Spectrum or EE Times.
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I work for a tiny piss-ant company with a name that makes no sense. The owner wanted his 15 or so employees to sign a form he found on the net and filled in the values on. It said we could not work in our field for 10 years after we quit (I guess we were to flip burgers) and if we did we were to pay him $100,000.
I wasn't here yet, but my co-workers (who don't strike me as rabble-rousers) all refused to sign it, and it went away.
Apparently humans are perpetual motion machines that produce more energy than goes into them in the form of food, and we are far more efficient (even with the whole electric Matrix thing and the risk of taking over the world) than lower life forms, like cows, or algae.
Solar provides the most energy when it's sunniest. People use the most energy when it's sunniest. Synergy.
Nobody has ever argued that solar is the panacea and will solve all our energy problems and serve you breakfast in bed. It is one component of a mix of renewable energies that will be the solution. Solar, wind, hydro, wave, bio, fission, fusion some day...
But yes, a Manhattan-project for energy storage probably would be a good idea, as it would advance electric cars and help everyone with their little gadgets, too, and make someone very, very, very rich.
Not exactly.
As I understand it, he has PLEDGED his billions... once he DIES. In the mean while, a little here, a little there.
When the lake has a few inches of water in it and freezes over, the ice locks onto the rock and the slightest wind blowing on those millions of square feet of ice will drag the ice (and rock) around. I believe this has already been tested decades ago, but if not is easily testable.
Next "scientist-baffling"-pseudo-science-urban-legend, please.
For the same reason my bank charges me a fee for not installing an ATM where I need one and not providing me the service I require and therefore forcing me to use a competitor's ATM which also charges me: because they can.
First of all, SIP sniffers with GUIs that can monitor calls have been around a long time.
Second, if you already have direct access to the network, the victim has bigger problems than a SIP sniffer. Why not corrupt the TFTP server and own every phone?
Third, on any plausible network, having a trojan on one PC would only let you sniff that PC's traffic. I'm going to assume they set up a fake network with hubs from the 1990s.
That article is horrible, and obviously written by someone with zero VoIP experience. Starting with the first paragraph: you don't need a proof-of-concept for something that is old hat, all this has been done before, this is no one's "worst case nightmare," it is easily defeatable with TLS or SRTP or ZRTP.
One thing I did learn from this article: it must be very easy to start your own consulting company and get into the news.
That's one hypothesis. Another is that the decision was based on emotion, not logic, and no amount of consequences will matter or even be noticed. Management will get their bonuses no matter what, and if a devision does suffer enough they will just lay off some workers.
The more I learn about medicine, the more I learn it's based on money and urban legend.
Circumcision, tonsillectomy, lobotomy, having women lie down during birth: these are all fads, past or current. Circumcision alone is apparently a $600,000,000 industry of unnecessary, painful, irreversible cosmetic surgery on infants who cannot give consent. Why are we practicing medicine based on fads and not science?
Then there are the stories about how much lobbying and marketing affects diagnosis.
But I have always wondered about fevers. I thought a fever is the body's way to fight an infection, yet doctors always want you to lower your fever. Who is wrong? I sure hope it's me...
There is a HUGE variation in the quality of CFLs. I bought one that flickered to life for about 10 seconds. I returned it. Walmart and other cheap places sell bulbs that take 1 to 5 minutes to gain full brightness. I've returned those, too. Others turn on instantly.
Look for bulbs that claim to turn on instantly with no flicker. If they don't perform as claimed, take them back or exchange them. You aren't helping anyone by buying inferior products and then throwing them away. You can often get them in 4 packs for $10, or even free after rebate.
CFLs can be finicky. If you put them in a hot recessed can that can potentially shorten their life, but mine have been fine for years. As for your basement, CFLs don't like cold and take a long time to warm up due to low energy waste, so if you live in the North you might have to stick to 19th century bulbs down there, or regular fluorescents.
I just had one CFL burn out that I bought in 1999 +/-. I had others die after a few months, usually when used outdoors. I love them, though. Not only do they save me 75% on lighting, but they save me on air conditioning too, which in south Texas is pretty expensive, e.g. $250 a month. And you can really feel the difference at my kitchen table with 5 60w bulbs blazing away.
I used to have incandescents with photo switches outside, until one day I realized it would be 50% cheaper to run CFLs 24/7 than to run the incandescents just at night. Then I found a CFL-safe timer on Amazon for more savings.
CFLs rock. I can't wait until LEDs are cheap.
My Sony DVD player kept freezing up and turning off, refusing to even eject the disc. I researched it online and roughly half the posts mentioned the same issue and some had called Sony. I called Sony and they not only denied ever hearing of the problem, and refused to let me send them any information, but they wanted me to pat something like $269 just to LOOK at the player, plus parts, labor and shipping.
Instead, I made a sandwich of multiple layers of tinfoil and silver paste to make the main processor contact the "heat sink" (it's top was originally attached to a frame piece with double-sided sticky tape -- well known for it's long term reliability and heat conduction properties) and it has worked fine since. Of course now I use a $40 divx player, but it's still a good story.
Now if only I could figure out why my Sony receiver randomly crashes and either mutes or blasts noise until I reboot it.
Beta lost because there were only 1 hr tapes for the first few years, while VHS let you record 2, then 4, then 6 hours.
Blu-Ray lets you record more...
It is exactly the same where I work: 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 number, 2 special, and varying length requirements up to 16 characters, and you need to change them every 2-4 weeks with no re-use, and I must have 10-15 different systems to log into each with it's own password.
I have a very busy sticky note in my desk drawer. Security accomplished.
And I'm a "security professional."
Nuh uh, they all chat me and they tell me everything I want to hear and love everything I love and are into everything I'm into and they all are sexual goddesses, and one day I will totally meet one of them in RL.
I need to take a dance lesson or something.
It would probably be safer and easier to write an app to transfer all the info on your profile and your blogs.
It would be so nice to combine them all somehow. Hot chics need to know I'm out here.
Not to defend any sloppy programming or unnecessary ware on hardware, but is this really that big of an issue?
At that rate, it will take you 8571.4 hours to hit that limit. For an evening user like me, even at 4 hours a day every day that's 2142.9 days, or 5.87 years. I'm used to Maxtors dying after 3 or so years, and my Seagates are usually obsolete (or dropped) in that amount of time, and that's on a desktop. I'm assuming not many laptops survive 6 years at all, or at least are used regularly that long.
Even a road warrior using it 60 hours a week would take 2.6 years, and it hasn't been my experience that laptops survive long with that kind of use.
PS: this article really should have been called "Ubuntu considered harmful"
I've noticed that for the last few months Google Maps doesn't work after a few clicks. Your first search will work, then you can zoom in or out a couple times, and then after that not a single new map square will load. Starting over from scratch doesn't help -- nothing will load. The map will be blank squares with errors messages.
Doing the same operation from either of my work networks or from my phone results in perfect operation.
Correction: if you have done nothing ***the goverment considers wrong*** you have nothing to hide.
What the govenrment cosiders wrong is subject to change at any time, without warning or restriction, you milage may very, contents may settle during rendition.
PS: As for your sig, how about "Conservatives: nominate Ron Paul, the ONLY Republican candidate who does not want to preemptivly start a thermonuclear world war III. Liberals: for the love of God, make sure none of those nut cases get into power."
If that's true that scares the hell out of me... Are you sure it's not the commentary that's copyrighted? I guess I never thought about translations before...
Anyway, IIRC it was the King James version, and I think, under US law, his copyright expired last month.
Seriously, where does this road lead?
Point #2 is already moot: the AP journalists who conducted the tests were downloading the Bible. I DARE Comcast, the RIAA and BSA to argue that reading the Bible should be illegal.
Personally I will never fly on a plane that allows this. Maybe if there is a no-cell-phone area. Or even better, no cell phones, no babies, no teenage girls and no Europeans. But I digress.
In addition to annoying the shit out of everyone around you, there is a serious risk that devices like this will eventually crash a plane. I already posted this as a reply to another comment, hopefully I wont get filtered, but here is what the IEEE Spectrum says:
Unsafe At Any Airspeed?
March 01, 2006
Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/mar06/3069 [ieee.org]
[...]
In March 2004, acting on a number of reports from general aviation pilots that Samsung SPH-N300 cellphones had caused their GPS receivers to lose satellite lock, NASA issued a technical memorandum that described emissions from this popular phone. It reported that there were emissions in the GPS band capable of causing interference. Disturbingly, though, they were low enough to comply with FCC emissions standards.
[...]
In one telling incident, a flight crew stated that a 30-degree navigation error was immediately corrected after a passenger turned off a DVD player and that the error reoccurred when the curious crew asked the passenger to switch the player on again. Game electronics and laptops were the culprits in other reports in which the crew verified in the same way that a particular PED caused erratic navigation indications.
Hmmm, not the article I was looking for, but here's some examples:
Unsafe At Any Airspeed?
March 01, 2006
Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/spectrum/mar06/3069
[...]
In March 2004, acting on a number of reports from general aviation pilots that Samsung SPH-N300 cellphones had caused their GPS receivers to lose satellite lock, NASA issued a technical memorandum that described emissions from this popular phone. It reported that there were emissions in the GPS band capable of causing interference. Disturbingly, though, they were low enough to comply with FCC emissions standards.
[...]
In one telling incident, a flight crew stated that a 30-degree navigation error was immediately corrected after a passenger turned off a DVD player and that the error reoccurred when the curious crew asked the passenger to switch the player on again. Game electronics and laptops were the culprits in other reports in which the crew verified in the same way that a particular PED caused erratic navigation indications.
Despite what an economic magazine says about the realities of electromagnetic interference in damaged or otherwise non-optimal hardware, I think I will go with 1) what engineers say and 2) what the pilot log books say. Those logs include some pretty scary things, including a laptop that was proven to cause an airliner to bank.
I am searching for the article but having trouble. Can't remember if it was in the IEEE Spectrum or EE Times.
The first time I wrote that (at the end of a rambling 5AM email about yet another all-nighter in college) it was not.
Then it became a way of life.
Then I got a job.