I see all these stories about how GOOD FiOS is and all these stories about how many people have switched from their previous crappy service with the cable company and gotten FiOS as soon as it was available yet Verizon has chosen to stop the roll-out.
Is it not as profitable as it appears at first glance? Are the numbers of people switching to FiOS not enough? Have the cable companies managed to out-lobby Verizon and get governments to shut them down? Are old fart NIMBYers kicking up a stink and saying "we dont want Verizon digging up our streets to lay more cables"?
Not always possible to "just buy less corn" because its in so many things including things that you wouldn't necessarily think of having corn.
Also, if you buy corn-on-the-cob, corn chips, popcorn or any other kind of corn, you are supporting the giant greedy agribusiness companies that produce most of the corn (including the bad kind of corn that ends up in so many foods)
Corn has been sequenced so the bio-tech companies can find out where to insert the gene for resistance to Roundup and the gene that makes it infertile after one generation. (forcing farmers to buy new seed every year)
Should have thought harder, I was actually referring to vehicles launching from or landing in the USA. (comes from posting on Slashdot before I have had my first caffeine hit of the day:)
I have seen designs of ATM that make attaching card skimmers harder yet too many ATMs (even brand new ATMs) are of designs where attaching skimmers without it being obvious is simple to do.
Its not rocket science to design an ATM that makes it harder to attach a card skimmer or more obvious that one has been attached.
You can also add covers of various to the pin pad so its almost impossible to see the numbers being keyed in if you are shoulder surfing or have attached a hidden camera to the ATM. (and I have seen ATMs that have such covers).
The FAA isn't claiming jurisdiction over space. They are claiming jurisdiction over US airspace. The airspace that any space vehicle has to pass through on the way up and the way down. Its about making sure that when the capsule re-enters, everything that could get in its way has been moved out of the way (commercial aircraft, military aircraft etc) so it doesn't hit anything on the way down.
Let me know when I can buy a GPU where every single feature of the card (INCLUDING the on-board dedicated circuitry for decoding video) can be used in the open source drivers and then maybe I will care...
Back when Wernher Von Braun created the Saturn 5, he was given the freedom to design the BEST rocket for the job. And that rocket put 12 men on the surface of the moon.
When they built the space shuttle, they made compromises in its design in order to ensure companies located in key congressional districts got contracts and as a result, the Shuttle Challenger blew up and killed 7 people. (I have no clue if the aforementioned design compromises were responsible for Columbia)
The politicians need to leave NASA alone and let NASA buy and fly the BEST rocket for the job. Regardless of whether that rocket is made by ATK, Boeing, SpaceX, the Russians or some guys on a sheep station in the Australian Outback. And they need to get out of the way of the private space industry and let it thrive, only getting involved in so far as ensuring that 3rd parties and their property are not harmed/damaged and that the work done by these space companies is not turned into nuclear missiles aimed at downtown DC.
Australia gets it right. I have access to 100s of internet plans with caps ranging from 2GB per month all the way up to 1 Terabyte per month and prices to match. If you exceed the cap, you get your speed cut back to dialup speeds for the rest of the billing cycle. Never have to worry about extra expense on the bill. Some ISPs even let you buy extra data blocks if you run out.
The problem with caps in the USA is that the cable companies are introducing very low caps with no option to buy more data or go to a higher cap.
The airlines USED to be massive campaign contributors (up there with the best of em). But they seem to have basically rolled over and accepted whatever crap the government decides to implement even when its putting them out of business.
None of the jobs I saw specified anything to do with sallary, nor was sallary specified anywhere by me. If they wanted someone cheap, they should stop preteding and just go hire some Indians or Chinese and get it over wirh.
I do have a job right now but it was damn hard to get. And believe me, when I was looking for a job (before I got this one) I applied for everything including all the jobs where they wanted "3 years expereience".
I wanna see a new FPS game set in the C&C universe. Since none seems forthcoming from Electronic Arts, I will have to make do with Red Alert: A Path Beyond, Reborn and Red Alert 2: Apocolypse Rising plus all the unofficial 3rd party engine enhancements (enhancements that I happen to be lead programmer of) that underly these 3 mods:)
The Renegade engine has held up surprisingly well given its age.
It may have been a work of fiction but the scenario in the Tom Clancy book "The Bear and The Dragon" involving the Chinese invading parts of Russia to steal the land and natural resources is not beyond the relm of possiblity if China finds that it doesn't have enough natural resources of its own.
People have the skills, they just dont have the experience. I see it time and time again on IT job sites. I see companies that ask for "3 years experience in " yet no-one is willing to give people like me (someone who has plenty of skills but not enough experience) a chance so that I can GET the jobs where they want experience.
And I see the same job listed again and again.
I see article after article where people claim there is an "IT worker shortage". If IT firms were more willing to hire people who have University qualifications and good skills but havent necessarily done real world work, there wouldnt BE a shorage.
They have no problem with people using the Kinect in the way they are. Microsoft DO want to stop people hacking the Kinect to gain an advantage in games (i.e. cheating) and they DO want to stop people hacking the Kinect in an attempt to create fake or knockoff products.
Not sure on the Verizon statement, last I heard Verizon were putting Google on their "Droid" handsets and putting Bing on their low-end android handsets (the ones not labeled "Droid")
Not necessarily in the airports I have seen (e.g. Singapore or Perth or Heathrow). You come out of the airplane and then enter the air side part where you would wait if you are getting on a new airplane. You dont have to pass through the customs or security area to get there.
I dont know how it is in the USA since I have never been there but I doubt that people flying into the US from one country and then out from there to another country have to pass through US customs on their way to the transit lounge.
Keep your data in the cloud somewhere protected with passwords and secure protocols (SSL, SSH etc). If you need to do work on an airplane flight where internet access is unavailable, you download the data before you leave. Then you do your work on the airplane. Upon arriving at the destination but before passing through customs, find a place with a WiFi or 3G connection to the internet and upload any changed data.
At the point where you no longer need to actually use the laptop, you do a reformat or re-image or something so anything on there is wiped out. If its got a recovery disk or recovery partition, use that and completly re-image the machine that way.
Customs can look at it all they want but since its an empty laptop, there is nothing for them to find.
Wont work, there is a law (or there was one being propsed) that gives government agents (TSA, FBI etc) immunity for copyright law violations carried out in the course of their jobs.
Its also an issue because the boosters drive more traffic onto the already-strained towers. The femtocells take load OFF the towers and drive it over the internet instead.
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I see all these stories about how GOOD FiOS is and all these stories about how many people have switched from their previous crappy service with the cable company and gotten FiOS as soon as it was available yet Verizon has chosen to stop the roll-out.
Is it not as profitable as it appears at first glance?
Are the numbers of people switching to FiOS not enough?
Have the cable companies managed to out-lobby Verizon and get governments to shut them down?
Are old fart NIMBYers kicking up a stink and saying "we dont want Verizon digging up our streets to lay more cables"?
Not always possible to "just buy less corn" because its in so many things including things that you wouldn't necessarily think of having corn.
Also, if you buy corn-on-the-cob, corn chips, popcorn or any other kind of corn, you are supporting the giant greedy agribusiness companies that produce most of the corn (including the bad kind of corn that ends up in so many foods)
Corn has been sequenced so the bio-tech companies can find out where to insert the gene for resistance to Roundup and the gene that makes it infertile after one generation. (forcing farmers to buy new seed every year)
Should have thought harder, I was actually referring to vehicles launching from or landing in the USA. (comes from posting on Slashdot before I have had my first caffeine hit of the day :)
I have seen designs of ATM that make attaching card skimmers harder yet too many ATMs (even brand new ATMs) are of designs where attaching skimmers without it being obvious is simple to do.
Its not rocket science to design an ATM that makes it harder to attach a card skimmer or more obvious that one has been attached.
You can also add covers of various to the pin pad so its almost impossible to see the numbers being keyed in if you are shoulder surfing or have attached a hidden camera to the ATM. (and I have seen ATMs that have such covers).
The FAA isn't claiming jurisdiction over space. They are claiming jurisdiction over US airspace. The airspace that any space vehicle has to pass through on the way up and the way down.
Its about making sure that when the capsule re-enters, everything that could get in its way has been moved out of the way (commercial aircraft, military aircraft etc) so it doesn't hit anything on the way down.
Let me know when I can buy a GPU where every single feature of the card (INCLUDING the on-board dedicated circuitry for decoding video) can be used in the open source drivers and then maybe I will care...
Back when Wernher Von Braun created the Saturn 5, he was given the freedom to design the BEST rocket for the job. And that rocket put 12 men on the surface of the moon.
When they built the space shuttle, they made compromises in its design in order to ensure companies located in key congressional districts got contracts and as a result, the Shuttle Challenger blew up and killed 7 people. (I have no clue if the aforementioned design compromises were responsible for Columbia)
The politicians need to leave NASA alone and let NASA buy and fly the BEST rocket for the job. Regardless of whether that rocket is made by ATK, Boeing, SpaceX, the Russians or some guys on a sheep station in the Australian Outback. And they need to get out of the way of the private space industry and let it thrive, only getting involved in so far as ensuring that 3rd parties and their property are not harmed/damaged and that the work done by these space companies is not turned into nuclear missiles aimed at downtown DC.
The reason is most likely the suitcase full of money the HP guys gave to the Apple guys.
Australia gets it right.
I have access to 100s of internet plans with caps ranging from 2GB per month all the way up to 1 Terabyte per month and prices to match.
If you exceed the cap, you get your speed cut back to dialup speeds for the rest of the billing cycle. Never have to worry about extra expense on the bill.
Some ISPs even let you buy extra data blocks if you run out.
The problem with caps in the USA is that the cable companies are introducing very low caps with no option to buy more data or go to a higher cap.
The airlines USED to be massive campaign contributors (up there with the best of em). But they seem to have basically rolled over and accepted whatever crap the government decides to implement even when its putting them out of business.
None of the jobs I saw specified anything to do with sallary, nor was sallary specified anywhere by me. If they wanted someone cheap, they should stop preteding and just go hire some Indians or Chinese and get it over wirh.
I do have a job right now but it was damn hard to get.
And believe me, when I was looking for a job (before I got this one) I applied for everything including all the jobs where they wanted "3 years expereience".
I wanna see a new FPS game set in the C&C universe. :)
Since none seems forthcoming from Electronic Arts, I will have to make do with Red Alert: A Path Beyond, Reborn and Red Alert 2: Apocolypse Rising plus all the unofficial 3rd party engine enhancements (enhancements that I happen to be lead programmer of) that underly these 3 mods
The Renegade engine has held up surprisingly well given its age.
It may have been a work of fiction but the scenario in the Tom Clancy book "The Bear and The Dragon" involving the Chinese invading parts of Russia to steal the land and natural resources is not beyond the relm of possiblity if China finds that it doesn't have enough natural resources of its own.
People have the skills, they just dont have the experience.
I see it time and time again on IT job sites. I see companies that ask for "3 years experience in " yet no-one is willing to give people like me (someone who has plenty of skills but not enough experience) a chance so that I can GET the jobs where they want experience.
And I see the same job listed again and again.
I see article after article where people claim there is an "IT worker shortage". If IT firms were more willing to hire people who have University qualifications and good skills but havent necessarily done real world work, there wouldnt BE a shorage.
They have no problem with people using the Kinect in the way they are.
Microsoft DO want to stop people hacking the Kinect to gain an advantage in games (i.e. cheating) and they DO want to stop people hacking the Kinect in an attempt to create fake or knockoff products.
Not sure on the Verizon statement, last I heard Verizon were putting Google on their "Droid" handsets and putting Bing on their low-end android handsets (the ones not labeled "Droid")
Not necessarily in the airports I have seen (e.g. Singapore or Perth or Heathrow). You come out of the airplane and then enter the air side part where you would wait if you are getting on a new airplane. You dont have to pass through the customs or security area to get there.
I dont know how it is in the USA since I have never been there but I doubt that people flying into the US from one country and then out from there to another country have to pass through US customs on their way to the transit lounge.
Keep your data in the cloud somewhere protected with passwords and secure protocols (SSL, SSH etc). If you need to do work on an airplane flight where internet access is unavailable, you download the data before you leave. Then you do your work on the airplane. Upon arriving at the destination but before passing through customs, find a place with a WiFi or 3G connection to the internet and upload any changed data.
At the point where you no longer need to actually use the laptop, you do a reformat or re-image or something so anything on there is wiped out. If its got a recovery disk or recovery partition, use that and completly re-image the machine that way.
Customs can look at it all they want but since its an empty laptop, there is nothing for them to find.
Wont work, there is a law (or there was one being propsed) that gives government agents (TSA, FBI etc) immunity for copyright law violations carried out in the course of their jobs.
Wont work for the 1000s of people using home routers with NAT to allow connection of multiple devices with a single world-facing IP address.
I wouldn't use Norton if you PAID me to do it.
I call BS.
GSM and UMTS signals (dont know about CDMA) are encrypted and whilst you can crack the keys, its not possible to do in realtime.
Its also an issue because the boosters drive more traffic onto the already-strained towers.
The femtocells take load OFF the towers and drive it over the internet instead.