If you relish an element of risk in a particular activity, be certian that your foolishness will not endanger the lives of others trying to save you in your stupidity. If they must risk their lives saving you then don't deny them the tools to do so.
They typically already have the tools to do so: When I went backpacking on Isle Royale for a week last year, I filed a hike plan, so they knew where I was going. Putting turnstyles across the trails really wouldn't have helped them much more than that.
When I go hiking, I don't expect Mommy Park Service to come looking for me. Not because I'm some kind of high-adrenaline risk-taker, but because I like taking responsibility for myself from time to time, with nothing to rely upon but my own resources and preparedness. If I were to get injured (and I have), it would be up to me to get back myself or to find some means of staying safe while assisting with my own rescue.
Keep in mind that we're not talking about off-trail bushwacking here; we're talking about well-travelled trail systems, where in all likelihood someone will probably be along to help or to go for a rescue team long before your failure to return to the Ranger station raises any alarms.
and I don't know much about tax laws other than 1040EZ...
Clearly. {smile}
If you register as a non-taxed non-profit (easier said than done), you darn well better spend the money directly on whatever charitable activity your charter said you were forming to undertake.
However, dates in Arabic are commonly right->left, (yyyy/mm/dd) but time notation is left->right (hh:mm).
Seems to me that this just puts everything in (left to right) order of decreasing magnitude. Rather sensible compared the bi-polar European (hh:mm:ss dd.mm.yyyy) or haphazard American (hh:mm:ss mm/dd/yyyy) standards, IMHO.
there have been four "lingua francas" in history: Greek, Latin, French and English.
As others have pointed out, Frankish (not to be confused with French) was a lingua franca. For several centuries, if you wanted to study the sciences or mathematics, you did it in Arabic (from whence came our numerals). Swahili has served a similar "common language" role in Africa, and I'm sure there are others from the pre-Columbian Americas, Asia, and other regions.
It is not the government that is implementing the RFID security system; it is a private university.
<sarcasm>And I'm always more comfortable being spied on by private entities which are in no way legally accountable to me, than by a government in which I and my peers at least have a right to vote on its policies and management.</sarcasm>
It's an archaic term for "the state of being black". It's an odd choice, and you could draw all sorts of inferences based on our society's connections between "black" and the concepts of "profit", "evil", "African", "ink", and even "smithee". But sometimes and odd word is just an odd word.
The interesting thing is that you CAN run a (low volume) web server from a 1988 vintage SE...
Yup: add an ethernet adapter, System 7, MacTCP, NetPresenz, and you'll be up and... walking. (If you want something that's actually borderline practical, I recommend a Quadra with System 7.5 and MacHTTP.)
I got as far as "Hey dawgs! A major shout out to ZJ Boarding House where owner Mikke (with two k's!) and manager Matt hooked us Spotmates up with some 411..." before I hit the back button. I'm a sucker for cute models, but if there's anything I find more annoying than reading paid endorsements, it's reading paid endorsements delivered in contrived 2-hip-4-da-joint slang. I wish I could predict with confidence that there's no audience for this, but I don't have that much faith in the standards of The Masses.
Dude, that is so not me you're talking about. I run my own side business on Macs and Linux. I hold my nose and nursemaid Windows machines by day only because managers won't consider the alternatives.
Update your systems to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional. Delpoy Software Update Services within your organization.
Not exactly a trivial solution, from either a budget or staffpower perspective.
Also, not all Windows vulnerabilities can be solved by patches. Dealing with spyware alone could keep someone pretty busy around here. Much of this could be dealt with by policies (software and HR), but there are political barriers to that.
Lately about 1/3 of my job consists of dealing with Windows vulnerabilities. And there are four other full-time staffers here with the same job description. We're not especially well paid, but that sure adds up. And when you add in the downtime of the people whose computers we're fixing...
Luleå was the only one I saw referred to in its native alphabet; I inferred the other two from ASCII-only node names, and merely checked that they were (sometimes) spelled that way on the web.
Plus, I'm betting it's not a "land" speed record, seeing as how the data probably jumps through the air (satillite/microwave transmissions) at one or more points.
One of the insurmountable limitations of geosynchronous satellite communications is the nearly 45,000 mile trip the signal needs to take getting from point A to point C. It introduces a delay of almost a quarter second, and the signal attenuation over that distance limits how much data can be sent reliably. Surface-to-surface microwaves suffer from interference that reduces their transmission rate, and line-of-sight limitations. No, a strand of glass or copper hugging the crust of the planet is far faster than either, and would almost have to be used for any envelope-pushing stunts like this.
Actually, they data transfered across Sweden, part of Europe and then the United States
More precisely, it went from San Jose CA to Stockton CA to Kansas City MO to Fort Worth TX to Pennsauken NJ to Relay MD to Chicago IL to New York NY to Manasquan NJ to Tuckerton NJ to London UK to Brussels BE to Amsterdam NL to Hamburg DE to Copenhagen DK to Oslo NO to Stockholm SE (where it changed carriers) to Vasteras SE to Gavle SE to Luleå SE.
Or maybe it was the other direction; the site doesn't say clearly which way the transfer was.
I assume everybody here is familiar with Torvalds' quip about doing backups by uploading his important files to CVS and letting everybody mirror them. If there's something you're working on that you'd really like to allow to live on after you (code, archives, information, whatever), it seems that a similar strategy would be in order: keep it in some kind of shared storage that the appropriate other people can get at.
I have no spouse or children, so in the event of my unforeseen death, it'd be up to my parents or sisters to deal with my private files. At this point, about all they could do is shut everything down, and (if for some reason they were really curious... enough so to overcome their fear of finding out stuff they don't want to know) hire some geek to crack my systems. They're pretty secure as long as they're online, but with physical access to the drives and a "mount" command they'd be wide open. I suppose a better strategy would be to segregate out the stuff I don't want them to see and encrypt it. I do keep a master password list, itself password-protected, but since no one else on the planet knows that password, it'd go with me.
My uncle had the luxury of knowing he was dying, which gave him an opportunity to purge his files and his home of all the stuff he didn't want his mother and siblings to have to face (the sex toys and such that I know he once had), and to distribute anything of community/historical value (he was a legislator and a civil rights activist) to the appropriate people.
I'd go to the one with good teeth, because the one with really bad teeth evidently doesn't even know enough about dental care to take care of his own. (While regular professional dental care is certainly a good idea to maximize the health of your teeth and gums, conscientious self-care will usually prevent "really bad teeth" from developing.)
I haven't been in to a Wal-Mart for many years, and I haven't missed it one bit.
Heck, I've never even been in the parking lot of Wal-Mart. Not because I'm an anti-Wal-Mart crusader, but because I've never had any reason to shop there. Maybe I will someday when/if they've killed off any alternative shops, but until then I'm going to continue shopping at the local businesses that contribute to my local economy and offer the products I want.
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They typically already have the tools to do so: When I went backpacking on Isle Royale for a week last year, I filed a hike plan, so they knew where I was going. Putting turnstyles across the trails really wouldn't have helped them much more than that.
When I go hiking, I don't expect Mommy Park Service to come looking for me. Not because I'm some kind of high-adrenaline risk-taker, but because I like taking responsibility for myself from time to time, with nothing to rely upon but my own resources and preparedness. If I were to get injured (and I have), it would be up to me to get back myself or to find some means of staying safe while assisting with my own rescue.
Keep in mind that we're not talking about off-trail bushwacking here; we're talking about well-travelled trail systems, where in all likelihood someone will probably be along to help or to go for a rescue team long before your failure to return to the Ranger station raises any alarms.
Clearly. {smile}
If you register as a non-taxed non-profit (easier said than done), you darn well better spend the money directly on whatever charitable activity your charter said you were forming to undertake.
Seems to me that this just puts everything in (left to right) order of decreasing magnitude. Rather sensible compared the bi-polar European (hh:mm:ss dd.mm.yyyy) or haphazard American (hh:mm:ss mm/dd/yyyy) standards, IMHO.
As others have pointed out, Frankish (not to be confused with French) was a lingua franca. For several centuries, if you wanted to study the sciences or mathematics, you did it in Arabic (from whence came our numerals). Swahili has served a similar "common language" role in Africa, and I'm sure there are others from the pre-Columbian Americas, Asia, and other regions.
<sarcasm>And I'm always more comfortable being spied on by private entities which are in no way legally accountable to me, than by a government in which I and my peers at least have a right to vote on its policies and management.</sarcasm>
It's an archaic term for "the state of being black". It's an odd choice, and you could draw all sorts of inferences based on our society's connections between "black" and the concepts of "profit", "evil", "African", "ink", and even "smithee". But sometimes and odd word is just an odd word.
Yup: add an ethernet adapter, System 7, MacTCP, NetPresenz, and you'll be up and... walking. (If you want something that's actually borderline practical, I recommend a Quadra with System 7.5 and MacHTTP.)
The canonical version uses the word "jumps" not "jumped" ("e" and "d" appearing elsewhere in the sentence).
You're missing "fxyz". How about:
It's about as useful as... any basic handheld GPS unit. I don't have much use for one myself, but a fair number of people seem to.
I got as far as "Hey dawgs! A major shout out to ZJ Boarding House where owner Mikke (with two k's!) and manager Matt hooked us Spotmates up with some 411..." before I hit the back button. I'm a sucker for cute models, but if there's anything I find more annoying than reading paid endorsements, it's reading paid endorsements delivered in contrived 2-hip-4-da-joint slang. I wish I could predict with confidence that there's no audience for this, but I don't have that much faith in the standards of The Masses.
That wouldn't be a problem at the bar where I hung out in college.
Dude, that is so not me you're talking about. I run my own side business on Macs and Linux. I hold my nose and nursemaid Windows machines by day only because managers won't consider the alternatives.
Not exactly a trivial solution, from either a budget or staffpower perspective.
Also, not all Windows vulnerabilities can be solved by patches. Dealing with spyware alone could keep someone pretty busy around here. Much of this could be dealt with by policies (software and HR), but there are political barriers to that.
Lately about 1/3 of my job consists of dealing with Windows vulnerabilities. And there are four other full-time staffers here with the same job description. We're not especially well paid, but that sure adds up. And when you add in the downtime of the people whose computers we're fixing...
Perhaps because the primary audience of the presentation aren't OOo users?
"Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine."
Luleå was the only one I saw referred to in its native alphabet; I inferred the other two from ASCII-only node names, and merely checked that they were (sometimes) spelled that way on the web.
One of the insurmountable limitations of geosynchronous satellite communications is the nearly 45,000 mile trip the signal needs to take getting from point A to point C. It introduces a delay of almost a quarter second, and the signal attenuation over that distance limits how much data can be sent reliably. Surface-to-surface microwaves suffer from interference that reduces their transmission rate, and line-of-sight limitations. No, a strand of glass or copper hugging the crust of the planet is far faster than either, and would almost have to be used for any envelope-pushing stunts like this.
More precisely, it went from
San Jose CA to
Stockton CA to
Kansas City MO to
Fort Worth TX to
Pennsauken NJ to
Relay MD to
Chicago IL to
New York NY to
Manasquan NJ to
Tuckerton NJ to
London UK to
Brussels BE to
Amsterdam NL to
Hamburg DE to
Copenhagen DK to
Oslo NO to
Stockholm SE (where it changed carriers) to
Vasteras SE to
Gavle SE to
Luleå SE.
Or maybe it was the other direction; the site doesn't say clearly which way the transfer was.
I have no spouse or children, so in the event of my unforeseen death, it'd be up to my parents or sisters to deal with my private files. At this point, about all they could do is shut everything down, and (if for some reason they were really curious... enough so to overcome their fear of finding out stuff they don't want to know) hire some geek to crack my systems. They're pretty secure as long as they're online, but with physical access to the drives and a "mount" command they'd be wide open. I suppose a better strategy would be to segregate out the stuff I don't want them to see and encrypt it. I do keep a master password list, itself password-protected, but since no one else on the planet knows that password, it'd go with me.
My uncle had the luxury of knowing he was dying, which gave him an opportunity to purge his files and his home of all the stuff he didn't want his mother and siblings to have to face (the sex toys and such that I know he once had), and to distribute anything of community/historical value (he was a legislator and a civil rights activist) to the appropriate people.
The fact that he's apparently buying c.i-a'l!i|s makes me feel sorry for him. Has Melinda been disappointed by him again?
I'd go to the one with good teeth, because the one with really bad teeth evidently doesn't even know enough about dental care to take care of his own. (While regular professional dental care is certainly a good idea to maximize the health of your teeth and gums, conscientious self-care will usually prevent "really bad teeth" from developing.)
Heck, I've never even been in the parking lot of Wal-Mart. Not because I'm an anti-Wal-Mart crusader, but because I've never had any reason to shop there. Maybe I will someday when/if they've killed off any alternative shops, but until then I'm going to continue shopping at the local businesses that contribute to my local economy and offer the products I want.
At least it would be if A) we hadn't already read it a thousand times already, and B) it weren't apocrypal.