"One notable detail is that 2.4 GHz WLAN band is partially overlapping amateur radio band, and thus WLAN hardware can readily be used by amateur radio licensed operators with higher power radio gear than what the general population "license free" usage allows." [Wikipedia -- packet]
Of course, amateur radio operators are supposed to have their location on file, regularly identify themselves and aren't supposed to "broadcast", but, then, governments aren't supposed to go nutty either so all bets are off during a totalitarian clampdown.
For those who have pondered the comparative biographies, was Ozzie's life really more dissolute than Iggy Pop's or Marianne Faithfull's? I'm sure this is basically a publicity stunt but they should have seriously contacted Iggy Pop. More than one person around him has speculated that he seems to heal freakishly quickly.
If it isn't just an Orwellian attempt to record what everyone thinks about everything, one wonders whether the person(s) who sneaked this in really thought through what they intended to _do_ with it.
If it's meant to make police work easier, might it in fact make it more difficult weeding through the false positives?
Do you send the searcher an email, "Dear Citizen, we are concerned for your mental hygiene"? Or a letter to the home to let the wife and kids know? Or perhaps publish a weekly compilation in the local newspaper to give the community a heads up on who is searching beyond the bounds of decorous thought?
Perhaps mandatory pre-emptive counseling is in order?
And, as always, the staffing. Particularly the human staffing for the sexual thought crimes division. Wouldn't do to have the Mayor's wife accused of lesbian incestuous thoughts for searching "telling your daughter about checking her breasts for lumps" now would it?
But, of course, we know it _is_ just an Orwellian attempt to record what everyone thinks about everything.
You want to give people a heart attack? I had to read the Federal Register and my state's Register as part of one job I had. Thank whatever deity, power or force of luck you hold dear that not everything that gets proposed makes it out of committee. Not just anyone should be exposed to that knowledge. The horror. The horror.
Actually, there was a pretty interesting BBC Horizon show on this a while back. Possibly the origin of the Thunderbird legend in Native American mythology and they traced a likely quake to a Tsunami that caused flooding in Japan according to an existing written record that is well dated. Aside from coastal flooding the question was whether the modern buildings would bend or break. Show left it with, "it'll be an interesting test."
I hope the superstitiously religious understand that this is not gratifying to those of us who find it unnecessary to seek the church's blessing on facts.
I know the University of South Africa was interested in FreePascal because it's a lovingly updated clone of TurboPascal -- and free. One of their profs wrote a cyber-cafe program in Lazarus to try it out compared to the Delphi IDE. And, as others have noted, this is for the first year curriculum.
I have to disagree. The best way to "learn" how to do long duration deep-space flights is a moonbase, don't you think, not a first-try, no-exit-strategy, let's hope everything works shoot-'em-to-Demos one shot.
Bush was going to Mars too, so my concern is not alleviated that we're still talking fantasy appeasements while starving the program.
Exactly. Presumably, a group of people who claim they saw the Virgin Mary at Fatima aren't much different from a group of people who claim a light in the sky was aliens and anthropology isn't a bad department to study these group phenomena. I don't necessarily see anything unusual about the class.
We're _decades_ into thought crime within current generations:
1) Started with narcs looking for dealers. 2) If it was good hunting dealers, wasn't it good hunting users? 3) If undercover worked so well for drugs, why not expand it to other areas like burglary and car theft rings?
I wonder whether it was prostitution where the line was first crossed into temptation:
4) Why should we spend time busting prostitutes when we can pose as prostitutes and bust clients? 5) Why not set up our own fencing operations to catch burglars? 6) Why not set up our own kiddie porn sites? We can offer genuine confiscated kiddie porn either as downloads or send them by post for extra client criminality. 7) But that's so passive. Why not pose _as_ kids and troll for child molesters?
I'm sure in all these cases officers can come up with examples of "good work" where they imprisoned repeat offenders. But from a sociological viewpoint, America has become a very strange place where it is the government's job to entice "those so inclined" into crime. Do we have any idea of the cultural fallout from this shift and can it casually be assumed to be all good?
No kidding. It was my understanding they all were. I was more of a GEnie man myself because it was cheaper -- which was GE's philosophy -- heavy on cheap because they were going for the off-hour gravy and hardly advertised. That said, the management did a great job with what they had into the 90s.
Really, just interesting it took that long for the light bulb to go off on Wall Street.
A "You kids get off my lawn" moment. Morse dyslexic. Never did respond naturally. Hear dit-dah, I was likely to write "n" (dah-dit). So 13 wpm was one of the hardest tests I ever took. And then you had to get up in front of the group and send with a hand key.
I must admit I have some of that, "I had to do it, you should too" traumatic reaction.
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Bring packet in from across the border:
"One notable detail is that 2.4 GHz WLAN band is partially overlapping amateur radio band, and thus WLAN hardware can readily be used by amateur radio licensed operators with higher power radio gear than what the general population "license free" usage allows." [Wikipedia -- packet]
Of course, amateur radio operators are supposed to have their location on file, regularly identify themselves and aren't supposed to "broadcast", but, then, governments aren't supposed to go nutty either so all bets are off during a totalitarian clampdown.
How about corporate officials making no more than 40 times the pay of the lowest-paid health worker?
For those who have pondered the comparative biographies, was Ozzie's life really more dissolute than Iggy Pop's or Marianne Faithfull's? I'm sure this is basically a publicity stunt but they should have seriously contacted Iggy Pop. More than one person around him has speculated that he seems to heal freakishly quickly.
On moving on:
"That's another way we recognize our best employees"
-- Ever so sage Dilbert
Since I usually use the back door, and the front door is for taking out the trash, the last Yellow Pages I got never made it out of its plastic.
By all means, print a few white pages and give grandma the comfort on request but I've been wondering about this for years.
Sure, the hardware is bad-ass, but biomod is cooler.
If it isn't just an Orwellian attempt to record what everyone thinks about everything, one wonders whether the person(s) who sneaked this in really thought through what they intended to _do_ with it.
If it's meant to make police work easier, might it in fact make it more difficult weeding through the false positives?
Do you send the searcher an email, "Dear Citizen, we are concerned for your mental hygiene"? Or a letter to the home to let the wife and kids know? Or perhaps publish a weekly compilation in the local newspaper to give the community a heads up on who is searching beyond the bounds of decorous thought?
Perhaps mandatory pre-emptive counseling is in order?
And, as always, the staffing. Particularly the human staffing for the sexual thought crimes division. Wouldn't do to have the Mayor's wife accused of lesbian incestuous thoughts for searching "telling your daughter about checking her breasts for lumps" now would it?
But, of course, we know it _is_ just an Orwellian attempt to record what everyone thinks about everything.
Money's tight and jobs are hard to come by.
Does seem like one of those things where they sat around, contemplated the odds with a helpful attorney and decided to roll the dice on a jury.
You want to give people a heart attack? I had to read the Federal Register and my state's Register as part of one job I had. Thank whatever deity, power or force of luck you hold dear that not everything that gets proposed makes it out of committee. Not just anyone should be exposed to that knowledge. The horror. The horror.
Actually, there was a pretty interesting BBC Horizon show on this a while back. Possibly the origin of the Thunderbird legend in Native American mythology and they traced a likely quake to a Tsunami that caused flooding in Japan according to an existing written record that is well dated. Aside from coastal flooding the question was whether the modern buildings would bend or break. Show left it with, "it'll be an interesting test."
I hope the superstitiously religious understand that this is not gratifying to those of us who find it unnecessary to seek the church's blessing on facts.
Sad to hear that one of the master educators of our time is gone. But, like "Hello!", how many times was he ever on Oprah, you know?
"The economics of cable TV programming already are geared to serving small but targeted niches"
Yeah, right. So I call Comcast and say I _only_ want Syfy and the result will be.....?
With broadcast, I still have meaningful choice.
Internet stream is still a different matter -- until Hulu starts charging. Next week?
I'm not sure I entirely see the point. I'd rather not be fond of cockroaches.
I know the University of South Africa was interested in FreePascal because it's a lovingly updated clone of TurboPascal -- and free. One of their profs wrote a cyber-cafe program in Lazarus to try it out compared to the Delphi IDE. And, as others have noted, this is for the first year curriculum.
Trying to do a cloud version of what they did with Office 97's monopoly underpricing against WordPerfect. We'll see how it works this time.
I saw President Obama on TV say that BP will pay for everything. He's so pure -- would he lie to us?
Wow, that's prose that's fourth-grader friendly. I always thought the standard for popular writing was sixth grade.
From the quick flash on the screen by the local news, our law might be worse than "encourage". It might even criminalize "inform."
I have to disagree. The best way to "learn" how to do long duration deep-space flights is a moonbase, don't you think, not a first-try, no-exit-strategy, let's hope everything works shoot-'em-to-Demos one shot.
Bush was going to Mars too, so my concern is not alleviated that we're still talking fantasy appeasements while starving the program.
Exactly. Presumably, a group of people who claim they saw the Virgin Mary at Fatima aren't much different from a group of people who claim a light in the sky was aliens and anthropology isn't a bad department to study these group phenomena. I don't necessarily see anything unusual about the class.
Yeah, you die from the trauma instead of the blood loss. Nonetheless, I obviously want one like every other nerd reading this article.
We're _decades_ into thought crime within current generations:
1) Started with narcs looking for dealers.
2) If it was good hunting dealers, wasn't it good hunting users?
3) If undercover worked so well for drugs, why not expand it to other areas like burglary and car theft rings?
I wonder whether it was prostitution where the line was first crossed into temptation:
4) Why should we spend time busting prostitutes when we can pose as prostitutes and bust clients?
5) Why not set up our own fencing operations to catch burglars?
6) Why not set up our own kiddie porn sites? We can offer genuine confiscated kiddie porn either as downloads or send them by post for extra client criminality.
7) But that's so passive. Why not pose _as_ kids and troll for child molesters?
I'm sure in all these cases officers can come up with examples of "good work" where they imprisoned repeat offenders. But from a sociological viewpoint, America has become a very strange place where it is the government's job to entice "those so inclined" into crime. Do we have any idea of the cultural fallout from this shift and can it casually be assumed to be all good?
No kidding. It was my understanding they all were. I was more of a GEnie man myself because it was cheaper -- which was GE's philosophy -- heavy on cheap because they were going for the off-hour gravy and hardly advertised. That said, the management did a great job with what they had into the 90s.
Really, just interesting it took that long for the light bulb to go off on Wall Street.
A "You kids get off my lawn" moment. Morse dyslexic. Never did respond naturally. Hear dit-dah, I was likely to write "n" (dah-dit). So 13 wpm was one of the hardest tests I ever took. And then you had to get up in front of the group and send with a hand key.
I must admit I have some of that, "I had to do it, you should too" traumatic reaction.