Ironically enough, that's sort of how my wife got her cat. She found a little black kitten screaming her head outside off on Halloween and took her in. She asked around, and later that evening the neighbors got home and said "Oh yeah, she's ours. We found her foaming at the mouth this morning, so we threw her out. No, we don't really want her back; she tends to chew on power cords."
Per the vet, 1)kittens chew on power cords, and 2) when the get a jolt, they will drool and "foam."
Ignition interlocks are a tool for those who need them. They are monitored strictly under the guidelines of whatever court ordered it. Just throwing them onto cars without the monitoring is simply a waste of time.
This has been tried before. Anyone remember seat belt interlocks from the early 70's? Didn't think so - that's how long that bright idea lasted.
"By the way, I hate how everybody gets up in arms over the fact that this is data from children. This is horrible for ANYBODY to have their information posted on the net like this. And it could have been worse. It could have been a list of women tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at."
Yes, it would suck if my daily schedule was put up in the internet. Then I'd have to worry about pedophiles or my crazy parent with the restraining order snatching me up.
Oh, wait - I'm an adult male who carries a cell phone, "pocket knife", and just enough martial arts experience to get me out of (okay, into) trouble.
Stories like this about children ARE different. Adults might have the means and methods to deal with the consequences of such a massive blunder. Children DO NOT! Especially lists about kids in day care: children who are pre-selected to be literally unable to take care of themselves.
Oh, and your "even worse" example sucks too. At least women in shelter are somehow connected with help. Think instead of a database of phone calls to an abuse hotline - lots of women who are totally vulnerable.
To borrow from the pigs in "1984": All privacy breeches are equally bad, but some are just way effin' worse than others.
Per building codes, NOTHING is allowed in the elevator shafts or machine rooms except items that directly service the elevator.
Even if the landlord "allows" you to run wire up the elevator shaft, if an elevator inspector finds it, it will surely be YOUR wallet the fine money comes from - there goes that $7k.
"I love the one where the customer is told they will need to chop down their tree for service. Uh, clueless customer, you need to put the dish in a place where an un-obstructed view of the southern sky is. Then you won't have this problem."
In all fairness, this IS an issue. I was in the process of dumping cable for DirecTV, to the point where the installer showed up with the equipment.
Problem: Mature pine trees on my neighbor's property which blocked the southersn exposure from EVERYWHERE on my roof, and 99% of my property. The solution would have been to run the cable out to the corner of my property (underground), set a fencepost in the ground, and THEN the installer would come back.
The guy was actually being helpful; he showed me how he could get a signal from the farthest corner of my roof, but next year, I'd get nothing - the tree would have grown. I doubt a lot of other installers would have passed up on the $$ for a problem a year away.
I've caught them in some mistakes, too. However, they are more than forthcoming about their limitations. In thge "Stump the Chumps" segment, they even call people back to find out if they were right - and often, they weren't.
"What, exactly, about computing is getting so tight?"
Nothing about "computing" is getting tight. It is IT Dept budgets getting tight.
For years companies were sold computers and software based on the idea that they would make money for the companies. Now companies are realizing that their software does NOT make money, and their IT departments are NOT profit centers. They are starting to treat IT as a tool to help with their real business. Once IT is seen as a tool, it gets treated like any other tool - use it when needed, put it away when you don't.
Carly Fiorina et al. see this coming, and are trying to get ahead of it. Unfortunately, they can't just come out and say "We took you for a ride for years; now that the gravy train is over we want you to give us more money to tell you how to get off the treadmill." Hence, the marketspeak.
It doesn't matter how cheap a tool (cpu cycle capacity) is: if you don't need it, it's a waste of money.
I think this is computing coming full circle. At the beginning, you paid for computing by the amount you used it. As PC's be came ubiquitous, that fell by the wayside, as the accounting just seemed to be too much. Now that times are getting tight again, they are looking toward providing computing power as needed (and paying for it) as opposed to having it all on standby.
EXCEPT when the data cabling if fully shielded by the grounded raceway around it. The raceway I refer to is specially made to do just what I'm talking about.
http://www.wiremold.com/www/commercial/products/ in dex_family.asp?major_system_id=1
5400 is good, but the ALA4800 is the stuff. The pre-wired stuff is great, too.
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The process you are describing is the generation of coal, NOT oil. Just because they are both called "fossil fuels" doesn't mean they are related.
Sorry - Dr. Evil tags got lost.
Hey, WTF? I post text only!
Yeah, they originally asked for One Meelion Dollars!
For used scopes:http://sphere.bc.ca/test/
While you are at it, grab some slide rules and Nixie tubes.
60 Minutes isn't exactly a paragon of fair journalistic practices. Remember the Audi "Unintended accelleration" fiasco?
Ironically enough, that's sort of how my wife got her cat. She found a little black kitten screaming her head outside off on Halloween and took her in. She asked around, and later that evening the neighbors got home and said "Oh yeah, she's ours. We found her foaming at the mouth this morning, so we threw her out. No, we don't really want her back; she tends to chew on power cords."
Per the vet, 1)kittens chew on power cords, and 2) when the get a jolt, they will drool and "foam."
Shades of the Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick.
"I'm not suprised the corruption has extended to the UN in a similar fashion."
So the UN is a fount of morality being polluted by US graft and corruption?
Fwiw, your sig has a problem - it should be "A wedding is a ritual..."
wedding:marriage::funeral:death
Until I take it out.
Ignition interlocks are a tool for those who need them. They are monitored strictly under the guidelines of whatever court ordered it. Just throwing them onto cars without the monitoring is simply a waste of time.
This has been tried before. Anyone remember seat belt interlocks from the early 70's? Didn't think so - that's how long that bright idea lasted.
Your post would be funny if it were actually...well...funny.
"so you owe me a $1 for my butter"
Not quite - they are saying, in effect, "you all owe me the $6.99 retail value for the whole cake, even though there is only $.05 of butter in it."
"Heck, why not interface to a slot-car and have it go faster the higher your load average is?"
With a desktop case, stick a small circular track to the top. Pull 5 or 12v off the power supply. Or re-write for the USB and pull power out of that.
NIST has a test spec for drive imaging software for forensic use.
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http://www.cftt.nist.gov/documents/Atlanta.pdf
They have been testing a bunch of programs, and so far dd on Free BSD has performed best:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/203095.ht
"Do not give this data to anyone outside of this company or you will be beheaded!"
Does that mean your company has a Chief of Cervical Separation? Or do you just call him the Head Beheader?
"By the way, I hate how everybody gets up in arms over the fact that this is data from children. This is horrible for ANYBODY to have their information posted on the net like this. And it could have been worse. It could have been a list of women tying them to the current Battered Women's Shelter they were staying at."
Yes, it would suck if my daily schedule was put up in the internet. Then I'd have to worry about pedophiles or my crazy parent with the restraining order snatching me up.
Oh, wait - I'm an adult male who carries a cell phone, "pocket knife", and just enough martial arts experience to get me out of (okay, into) trouble.
Stories like this about children ARE different. Adults might have the means and methods to deal with the consequences of such a massive blunder. Children DO NOT! Especially lists about kids in day care: children who are pre-selected to be literally unable to take care of themselves.
Oh, and your "even worse" example sucks too. At least women in shelter are somehow connected with help. Think instead of a database of phone calls to an abuse hotline - lots of women who are totally vulnerable.
To borrow from the pigs in "1984": All privacy breeches are equally bad, but some are just way effin' worse than others.
Per building codes, NOTHING is allowed in the elevator shafts or machine rooms except items that directly service the elevator.
Even if the landlord "allows" you to run wire up the elevator shaft, if an elevator inspector finds it, it will surely be YOUR wallet the fine money comes from - there goes that $7k.
"neighborhood birds picking on her cat and stealing its food"
I'd feel sorry for the cat, except for the peals of laughter.
"I love the one where the customer is told they will need to chop down their tree for service. Uh, clueless customer, you need to put the dish in a place where an un-obstructed view of the southern sky is. Then you won't have this problem."
In all fairness, this IS an issue. I was in the process of dumping cable for DirecTV, to the point where the installer showed up with the equipment.
Problem: Mature pine trees on my neighbor's property which blocked the southersn exposure from EVERYWHERE on my roof, and 99% of my property. The solution would have been to run the cable out to the corner of my property (underground), set a fencepost in the ground, and THEN the installer would come back.
The guy was actually being helpful; he showed me how he could get a signal from the farthest corner of my roof, but next year, I'd get nothing - the tree would have grown. I doubt a lot of other installers would have passed up on the $$ for a problem a year away.
I've caught them in some mistakes, too. However, they are more than forthcoming about their limitations. In thge "Stump the Chumps" segment, they even call people back to find out if they were right - and often, they weren't.
Someone left the access wide open on user accounts. Flat out incompetence on the Dem's part. Flat out dirty tricks on the Repub's part.
Must.....resist.....
"What, exactly, about computing is getting so tight?"
Nothing about "computing" is getting tight. It is IT Dept budgets getting tight.
For years companies were sold computers and software based on the idea that they would make money for the companies. Now companies are realizing that their software does NOT make money, and their IT departments are NOT profit centers. They are starting to treat IT as a tool to help with their real business. Once IT is seen as a tool, it gets treated like any other tool - use it when needed, put it away when you don't.
Carly Fiorina et al. see this coming, and are trying to get ahead of it. Unfortunately, they can't just come out and say "We took you for a ride for years; now that the gravy train is over we want you to give us more money to tell you how to get off the treadmill." Hence, the marketspeak.
It doesn't matter how cheap a tool (cpu cycle capacity) is: if you don't need it, it's a waste of money.
I think this is computing coming full circle. At the beginning, you paid for computing by the amount you used it. As PC's be came ubiquitous, that fell by the wayside, as the accounting just seemed to be too much. Now that times are getting tight again, they are looking toward providing computing power as needed (and paying for it) as opposed to having it all on standby.
Everything else is marketing gobbletygook.
EXCEPT when the data cabling if fully shielded by the grounded raceway around it. The raceway I refer to is specially made to do just what I'm talking about.
/ in dex_family.asp?major_system_id=1
http://www.wiremold.com/www/commercial/products
5400 is good, but the ALA4800 is the stuff. The pre-wired stuff is great, too.