Thomas Edison has a lot to answer for (at least for adult sleep patterns).
Electric lighting may have given massive boosts to human productivity. However, if it wasn't for electric light, we would all be going to bed much sooner (as you can't do any real work by candlelight), and then waking up in the morning with the natural daylight. Anyone who has spent time wild camping has experienced this..... and also knows how much more refreshed they feel waking up to the wavelengths inherent to natural light.
Of course, those that live above/below certain latitudes might argue differently when winter comes along and there is no daylight in which to do any work. You can only spend so much time in bed;-)
The tide is turning I'm pleased to say.
The screwing over of our civil liberties is nearly all down to the current, rather authoritarian government we have had since 1997. Our current government is well aware of how unpopular they are, that there is a general election coming up in the next year and that they expect to loose
Consider, every other major UK political party has been against ID cards. The Lib-Dems and Tories have always been against the idea, and even the uber right wing UKIP party were questioning how much it cost. Consider also, both Lib-Dems and Tories (who are expected to make gains and probably win the next election) have always been much more in favour of civil liberties, questioning CCTV spending etc. Even the right wing Daily Mail newspaper has taken to refering to "Jack Boots Jaqui"... our current Home Secretary with a CCTV obsession.
Yes it is all down to the current government, and most dudes under 30 in the UK (and couldn't vote in 1997) have never known life under a less authoritarian government.
For what it's worth, I do rather like our green and pleasant land, and I (and many others) will be voting and fighting to take it back.
For those who are rightly saying this energy isn't free...
If the plates are positioned at the bottom of a downhill exit ramp, they will aid drivers braking, prividing kinetic energy without "stealing" drivers fuel. Somehow, I doubt this is where they will be positioned though:-)
(Incidentally... a similar idea was to build tram / light-rail stations on the top of small hills. Thus gravity assists the train in braking and accelerating away from teh station)
Oh and Sainsburys is a British Supermarket, not an English Market..... Big difference !
Such a test would be rather illegal in the UK, and probably much of the EU.
20.My sex life is satisfactory 69.I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex
Both questions could count as sexual harassment. (Aside from the fact, most sane people would tell the questioner to fuck off and mind there own business)
14.I have diarrhea once a month or more
Surely questions about your health that are not job releted are illegal?
58.Everything is turning out just like the prophets of the Bible said it would
LOL ! Don't get me started on the legality of this one!
I'm honestly amazed these questions are considered acceptable.
Here, they WOULD bring the law crashing down on you.
Better yet
When the BBC "harmlessly" pokes at 22,000 poorly secured boxen (presumably in the UK and overseas) "without criminal intent" its OK.
When Gary MacKinnon "harmlessly" pokes at a handful of poorly secured overseas boxen HAVING BROKEN NO LAW IN THE UK and also "without criminal intent" he gets extradited and faces 70 years in jail.
Do you and your neaghbors all need your own seperate LAN's ?
If all you are doing is a bit of surfing, it might be worth knocking on doors and offering to set up an open access point. Of course, some will need a private LAN of there own, but most will probably jump at the chance to split the ISP bill with you and reduce the interferance.
Remember, they will be suffering with crap wireless just as much as you are. If you are a geek, you will be the one in the best position to help everyone out.... and meet your neigbours for a beer in the process:-)
There is also the fact that this is very likely to be in breach of EU human rights act.
Even if this does pass the Lords (unlikely), the European Courts will take interest and may very well overturn it. Remember that the British Courts & Parliment are answerable to Europe.
Join a bloody library!
Most (free!) librarys have a decent SF section and will cary SF periodicals if you ask nicely.
Lots of fellow geeks will be hovering around the Fantesy/SF section also, so you can meet a few people.
I can't be the only dude from the EU who has noticed a slow rise in anti-China stuff on slashdot?
Do other news sources in the US have this slant? Because looking at it from the outside, it's like the US^H^H^H^H Fox News is seeking a new bogeyman now the cold war is over. Unfortunately some of this is rubbing off on a more intellegent news source like/.
It's cos running the radio recever uses lots of battery power compared to running the clock alone.
If the clock has its own quartz crystal for local timekeeping, then a 'lock' and resync to the radio time signal twice a day is *more* than enough for a very accurate household clock....
In the UK *any* goods you buy, your contract is with the RETAILER, not the manufactuer, suplyer, sales droid or pimpley kid who sweeps the floor. You give your fscked goods back to the retailer and get them to sort it out. Any attempt for them to weesel out of this obligation is illegal and will be delt with swiftly by Trading Standards.
This law forces retailers to act responsably and not shift the blame. It gives consumers clear rights as to where they take poor quality goods and who they deal with without being fobbed off.
For what its worth, this looks like an open and shut case to me. The bloke had his laptop less than 6 months, Trading Standards WILL say they goods did not last a reasonable lifetime and were therfore not fit and should be fixed/replaced. This is a statutory right layed down in law and is regardless of any additional waranty offered by the manufacturer.
Sounds like the store manager is just being thick and our man hasnt spoken to his local Trading Standards.
> The IDF is already in place, and the decision has been made to place a new furnace in this area.
Bloody hell!
Was whoever made this decision in full possetion of all the facts when they made it?
Seriously, you are going to struggle with this, no matter what solution you come up with. With interference on the line, heat shielding will be the least of your problems. Personaly I'd aproach whoever made this decision and thell them it can't be done without spending some serious money.
Good Luck:-)
I work with industrial networks...
WTF do you want networking kit so close to such a heat soure?
The motors/sensors etc on the machinery (ie, your heat source) should fead back into PLC controalers which are *bombproof*.
Only then well away from the machinery do you fead the signals from your PLC, into a computer to network and process data. (Or better than this, a robust NI fieldpoint network module to network the data, and process the data well away from the factory floor.)
Putting network switches in such a harsh environment in taking the piss.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but you need to look at how everybody else reliably does it, and think why you are trying to do it another way.
Oh and BTW, 2000 F = 1093 C Most of us use SI units:-)
Home Office spokesman.
"If you were a criminal, you might as well just steal a passport."
Missing the point dude.
If my passport gets stolen, I report it. It gets cloned, I've no idea somebody is impersonating me, screwing up my life (and others).
Please people, support NO2ID and tell Blair where to shove his flawed ID cards and CCTV cameras.
I'm from the UK and heard this story on the radio today
My HD still has the anarchist cookbook and all sorts of shite in my home directory. Stuff I copied from friends on floppys back when I was a 13yo.
I am honestly getting worried where CCTV Blairs Britan is taking us.
No I've nothing to hide. I've nothing to share either.
Why not passwords?
If passwords dont work for you then you need to tell us why not otherwise we cant help you.
They work well for most of us, and if it ain't broke, dont fix it.
Retina scans, 007 and RFID might look cool, but what advantages will they offer you?
Even take violence at football games - yes, it's decreased here in the past 20 years but only because there are so many police
Nothing to do with the rise of MDMA in the late 80's & early 90's then? http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v04n1/04122mdm.ht ml
Stop reading the News of the Screws / Daily Hate and get a grip.
Comming back into the UK, Stanstead Airport customs.
I get asked to open my bag containing 6 Hard Drives in anti-static bags.
Customs raise an eybrow. Only then do I realise each drive looks exactly like a brick of hash wraped in foil.
Dressing like a typical stoner probably didn't help either.
This prolly isn't what you want to hear but....
Sounds like a situation I was in. I needed to come up with a long term
robust solution for my company for the type of situation you are
describing
If it's worth doing then its worth doing properly. Dont fart about with
hacks here and there. You need to get everything
centralised on a SQL/Oracle etc server, getting rid of the shitty legacy
Access databases etc written as a temp bodge by an intern 5years ago....
stuff that has now become mission critical. Get the suits to contract out the
work if need be.
Before you complain this isn't what you are pitching for, lets talk
monney (suits like the bottom line).
1) How much is it currently costing to type and process data six times
(not taking into account the 'chinese whisper' effect and errors
creaping in)
2) How can your auditors trace the current mess and find where the
monney is going?
3) How future proof is your current setup? What will upgrading the
current mess cost?
4) What accounting errors already exist in the current setup (no
doubt written by non-profesionals)?
5) What backup/recovery policy do you have for your existing mess (none?) and how much
will it cost when (not if) Freds hard drive dies?
Pitch the above points to your boss/suits and they will soon realise
they need to do it properly and spend some monney. Of course, your
situation may vary
FWIW, I completely moved our company away from the legacy ad-hoc crap
and am processing everything with a centralisedd LAMP stack. But what
else wold you expect to hear on slashdot:-)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and the blame:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Thomas Edison has a lot to answer for (at least for adult sleep patterns).
Electric lighting may have given massive boosts to human productivity. However, if it wasn't for electric light, we would all be going to bed much sooner (as you can't do any real work by candlelight), and then waking up in the morning with the natural daylight. Anyone who has spent time wild camping has experienced this..... and also knows how much more refreshed they feel waking up to the wavelengths inherent to natural light.
Of course, those that live above/below certain latitudes might argue differently when winter comes along and there is no daylight in which to do any work. You can only spend so much time in bed
And why would they? They can make more money on Wall Street
Think you are missing the point dude.
We (mostly!) didn't become doctors / scientists to make money.
If people are only motivated by money.... then have you ever wondered why kids climb trees ?
The tide is turning I'm pleased to say.
The screwing over of our civil liberties is nearly all down to the current, rather authoritarian government we have had since 1997. Our current government is well aware of how unpopular they are, that there is a general election coming up in the next year and that they expect to loose
Consider, every other major UK political party has been against ID cards. The Lib-Dems and Tories have always been against the idea, and even the uber right wing UKIP party were questioning how much it cost. Consider also, both Lib-Dems and Tories (who are expected to make gains and probably win the next election) have always been much more in favour of civil liberties, questioning CCTV spending etc. Even the right wing Daily Mail newspaper has taken to refering to "Jack Boots Jaqui"... our current Home Secretary with a CCTV obsession.
Yes it is all down to the current government, and most dudes under 30 in the UK (and couldn't vote in 1997) have never known life under a less authoritarian government.
For what it's worth, I do rather like our green and pleasant land, and I (and many others) will be voting and fighting to take it back.
.
Diamonds ?
You do know diamonds are absolutely worthless don't you?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond
For those who are rightly saying this energy isn't free...
If the plates are positioned at the bottom of a downhill exit ramp, they will aid drivers braking, prividing kinetic energy without "stealing" drivers fuel. Somehow, I doubt this is where they will be positioned though
(Incidentally... a similar idea was to build tram / light-rail stations on the top of small hills. Thus gravity assists the train in braking and accelerating away from teh station)
Oh and Sainsburys is a British Supermarket, not an English Market..... Big difference !
Such a test would be rather illegal in the UK, and probably much of the EU.
20.My sex life is satisfactory
69.I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex
Both questions could count as sexual harassment. (Aside from the fact, most sane people would tell the questioner to fuck off and mind there own business)
14.I have diarrhea once a month or more
Surely questions about your health that are not job releted are illegal?
58.Everything is turning out just like the prophets of the Bible said it would
LOL ! Don't get me started on the legality of this one!
I'm honestly amazed these questions are considered acceptable.
Here, they WOULD bring the law crashing down on you.
Better yet
When the BBC "harmlessly" pokes at 22,000 poorly secured boxen (presumably in the UK and overseas) "without criminal intent" its OK.
When Gary MacKinnon "harmlessly" pokes at a handful of poorly secured overseas boxen HAVING BROKEN NO LAW IN THE UK and also "without criminal intent" he gets extradited and faces 70 years in jail.
Double standards. No?
Do you and your neaghbors all need your own seperate LAN's ?
If all you are doing is a bit of surfing, it might be worth knocking on doors and offering to set up an open access point. Of course, some will need a private LAN of there own, but most will probably jump at the chance to split the ISP bill with you and reduce the interferance.
Remember, they will be suffering with crap wireless just as much as you are. If you are a geek, you will be the one in the best position to help everyone out.... and meet your neigbours for a beer in the process
Google has more money than the bullies parents.
There is also the fact that this is very likely to be in breach of EU human rights act.
Even if this does pass the Lords (unlikely), the European Courts will take interest and may very well overturn it. Remember that the British Courts & Parliment are answerable to Europe.
Join a bloody library!
Most (free!) librarys have a decent SF section and will cary SF periodicals if you ask nicely.
Lots of fellow geeks will be hovering around the Fantesy/SF section also, so you can meet a few people.
It isn't rocket science dude.
China and other potential adversaries.
I can't be the only dude from the EU who has noticed a slow rise in anti-China stuff on slashdot?
Do other news sources in the US have this slant? Because looking at it from the outside, it's like the US^H^H^H^H Fox News is seeking a new bogeyman now the cold war is over. Unfortunately some of this is rubbing off on a more intellegent news source like
Why they built it this way, I don't know,
It's cos running the radio recever uses lots of battery power compared to running the clock alone.
If the clock has its own quartz crystal for local timekeeping, then a 'lock' and resync to the radio time signal twice a day is *more* than enough for a very accurate household clock....
Bzzzzzzt
Is the wrong answer.
In the UK *any* goods you buy, your contract is with the RETAILER, not the manufactuer, suplyer, sales droid or pimpley kid who sweeps the floor. You give your fscked goods back to the retailer and get them to sort it out. Any attempt for them to weesel out of this obligation is illegal and will be delt with swiftly by Trading Standards.
This law forces retailers to act responsably and not shift the blame. It gives consumers clear rights as to where they take poor quality goods and who they deal with without being fobbed off.
For what its worth, this looks like an open and shut case to me. The bloke had his laptop less than 6 months, Trading Standards WILL say they goods did not last a reasonable lifetime and were therfore not fit and should be fixed/replaced. This is a statutory right layed down in law and is regardless of any additional waranty offered by the manufacturer.
Sounds like the store manager is just being thick and our man hasnt spoken to his local Trading Standards.
> The IDF is already in place, and the decision has been made to place a new furnace in this area.
Bloody hell!
Was whoever made this decision in full possetion of all the facts when they made it?
Seriously, you are going to struggle with this, no matter what solution you come up with.
With interference on the line, heat shielding will be the least of your problems. Personaly I'd aproach whoever made this decision and thell them it can't be done without spending some serious money. Good Luck
OK I'll bite.
I work with industrial networks...
WTF do you want networking kit so close to such a heat soure?
The motors/sensors etc on the machinery (ie, your heat source) should fead back into PLC controalers which are *bombproof*.
Only then well away from the machinery do you fead the signals from your PLC, into a computer to network and process data. (Or better than this, a robust NI fieldpoint network module to network the data, and process the data well away from the factory floor.)
Putting network switches in such a harsh environment in taking the piss. I'm not saying it can't be done, but you need to look at how everybody else reliably does it, and think why you are trying to do it another way.
Oh and BTW, 2000 F = 1093 C Most of us use SI units :-)
Home Office spokesman.
"If you were a criminal, you might as well just steal a passport."
Missing the point dude.
If my passport gets stolen, I report it. It gets cloned, I've no idea somebody is impersonating me, screwing up my life (and others).
Please people, support NO2ID and tell Blair where to shove his flawed ID cards and CCTV cameras.
I'm from the UK and heard this story on the radio today
My HD still has the anarchist cookbook and all sorts of shite in my home directory. Stuff I copied from friends on floppys back when I was a 13yo.
I am honestly getting worried where CCTV Blairs Britan is taking us.
No I've nothing to hide. I've nothing to share either.
Why not passwords?
If passwords dont work for you then you need to tell us why not otherwise we cant help you.
They work well for most of us, and if it ain't broke, dont fix it.
Retina scans, 007 and RFID might look cool, but what advantages will they offer you?
global warming and pollution control
So WTF does this have to do with global warming? Or does the concrete break down CO2 also?
Too many buzzwords man
these kinds of "rage" attacks are definitely on the increases p
t ml
WRONG
http://www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/Page63.a
(And thats before taking Victorian London into account)
with binge drinking also increasing
LOL ! Getting shitfaced is obviously a new phenominon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Lane
Even take violence at football games - yes, it's decreased here in the past 20 years but only because there are so many police
Nothing to do with the rise of MDMA in the late 80's & early 90's then?
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v04n1/04122mdm.h
Stop reading the News of the Screws / Daily Hate and get a grip.
Comming back into the UK, Stanstead Airport customs.
I get asked to open my bag containing 6 Hard Drives in anti-static bags.
Customs raise an eybrow. Only then do I realise each drive looks exactly like a brick of hash wraped in foil.
Dressing like a typical stoner probably didn't help either.
Until someone figures out how to disable the chip?
Put it in the microwave. Oh wait....
This prolly isn't what you want to hear but....
Sounds like a situation I was in. I needed to come up with a long term robust solution for my company for the type of situation you are describing
If it's worth doing then its worth doing properly. Dont fart about with hacks here and there. You need to get everything centralised on a SQL/Oracle etc server, getting rid of the shitty legacy Access databases etc written as a temp bodge by an intern 5years ago.... stuff that has now become mission critical. Get the suits to contract out the work if need be.
Before you complain this isn't what you are pitching for, lets talk monney (suits like the bottom line).
1) How much is it currently costing to type and process data six times (not taking into account the 'chinese whisper' effect and errors creaping in)
2) How can your auditors trace the current mess and find where the monney is going?
3) How future proof is your current setup? What will upgrading the current mess cost?
4) What accounting errors already exist in the current setup (no doubt written by non-profesionals)? 5) What backup/recovery policy do you have for your existing mess (none?) and how much will it cost when (not if) Freds hard drive dies?
Pitch the above points to your boss/suits and they will soon realise they need to do it properly and spend some monney. Of course, your situation may vary
FWIW, I completely moved our company away from the legacy ad-hoc crap and am processing everything with a centralisedd LAMP stack. But what else wold you expect to hear on slashdot :-)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt and the blame :-)
You can laugh matie, but I still have a permenent brand on my arse from when I came off my motorbike and slid along the tarmac wearing jeans.
The denim held up fine, but the rivit heated up during the slide and gave me a DEEP burn :-)