I work in Boston for a company that has paid sick leave. We currently have lots and lots of people home sick with the flu. I was there last week. Our company policy is very clear, If you're sick, stay home and get healthy. If you're sitting at your desk with a fever and chills you're productivity is going to be practically zero.
Yeah, there are some companies in the US that have sweat shop like policies regarding sick leave, etc. However, in a place like Boston, I think those companies are in the minority. I'm sure there are people who milk the system, but honestly my company works to make our environment so enjoyable that going to work is fun and rewarding.
Please don't paint all American companies with the brush of stink.
At the pace he's writing the silly things, he'd better hedge his bets and keep his notes, he's no spring chicken and he's still got a few more books to write...
Odds are good he'll get them done before winter take him but there's no guarantee of that.
When I went to see it, the row behind me was filled with people who (based on their chattering) through the whole movie had never read The Hobbit, had no idea it was even a book, nor realized it was being made into three movies. So, I can understand why Peter Jackson would want to throw those people a bone.
I liked that this movie was made with a fuller understanding of the middle earth universe (such as the back story of Thorin).
I was taught gun safety from my father at around age 10 and I remember these as the rules.
1. Consider a gun loaded at all times. 2. Never point it at anything you're not willing to shoot. 3. When lining up the target, don't just think about the target, think about what's behind the target. Paper targets don't stop bb's or bullets. 4. Put your finger on the trigger when you know the consequences of pulling the trigger.
People get hung up about how WW2 started with Germany invading Poland... WW2 was already in full swing. It started with the Japanese invading mainland China and then getting their asses thoroughly handed to them by the Soviets. The fact that the Soviets were completely complicate in the conquest of Poland by Germany is something that's not glossed over at all.
With that all said, you need to change your thinking about WW2 and think about is as merely an inevitable outcome due to the results of WW1.
* Buy yourself a good solid toolbox and cover it with linux stickers. Stenciling your last name on it for good measure it fun as well. * Socket screwdriver kit with lots of different bits. I recently added a 30 piece tamper proof bit kit. NOTHING is more annoying than dealing with tamper proof screws and not having the right bits. My co-worker just bought a 99 piece tamper kit that has <i>every</i> tamper bit you could imagine. * Small socket kit with Imperial and Metric. * A semi-random collection of wire cutters, strippers and pliers. I've also got a good box cutter and a pair of telecom scissors. * I good bright headlamp. Nothing is more annoying than trying to hold a flashlight and do something like install a disk controller. You'll invariably never have enough hands. * Label maker. Nobody likes a server room where nothing is labeled. * Testing equipment: Ethernet tester, Volt Meter * Large assortment of different size and color zip ties, velcro tape and electrical tape.
That's great that you've got likely several hundred strands of fiber running by your house. Now... if there was a point of presence (POP) behind your house where the fiber came in, went into a fiber switch/booster then things would be a bit more interesting. However since you haven't indicated this, here's what would have to happen.
The company that owns the fiber is going to have to come out, build a little building, dig up the fiber, then cut the fiber, then re-terminate the fiber, put in a couple of bad ass fiber switches, etc. All this stuff also needs power, emergency power, cooling, etc. Then from there, they things get more complicated.
Quite likely they're going to put another switch out there where they can meter the bandwidth going in/out. You'll need some real routing gear to use that connection (since they'll probably dump you out an OC192) Since you've pointed out that this is rural, meshing is going to only possibly work in a neighborhood and our experiences with large scale meshing have been meh at best since at certain points you'll have all the traffic being funneled through some edge nodes.
So, you're going to have to run (possibly more fibre) to establish your own POP's throughout the community. You'll want to put one down town so you can provide high speed access to businesses, the schools and the town government. Depending on the density of the downtown area you could put in a DSLam and provide high speed DSL to the businesses. Depending on the business that might want more speed so you'll need to provide for bigger/better pipes.
Rural customers are a whole other flustercluck.
Through all of this we haven't even talked about the cost involved. Before you hook your first paying customer up, we're talking about several 100k. Firstly, that building that the telecom company has to build behind your house... they're going to want to defray the cost of that. Those other pops that you need to deploy... you're going to need space, cooling, equipment, power, etc. You're going to need a couple of good network engineers who know what the hell they're doing.
Is it impossible? No. It's totally doable. Expensive, yeah. ROI? At least a couple of years.
Initially when we setup a base on mars we'll send two of everything plus parts, but over time being able to build for yourself using a basic erector set of parts is going to be extremely useful, if not completely necessary. All we need is some calamity that causes launches to be delayed and suddenly they'd be on their own.
As a resident of Massachusetts, I plan on voting for this as well. The reason? When I was a kid, a friend of my parents died of inoperable brain cancer. In the end, he suffered terribly and even at age 10 I could see needlessly. He didn't die with dignity, he died in misery. I would think if I ever found myself in that situation that once the doctors told me, "Look, the seizures are going to get worse, everything is going to get really bad" that I would while I still had my facilities I could say, "That's not how I want to go, I don't want my children to remember their father like that."
With that all said, I hope to never be there, but I want the option and more over I want to give the option to others.
Apparently there's some talk that it might be possible to boost the OrbComm satellite to it's final orbit. The only bummer is how much that's going to shorten the life of the satellite.
Unless he's become naturalized, he's still a Finnish citizen, so all he can add is commentary. I happen to agree with him, but he'd come out in support of Romney, my response would have been the same. He's just one human being among 9 billion with an opinion. Whatever.
As for the substance of what he said... Well... Every time you see Romney on T.V... Just remember... under his clothes, he's wearing magic underwear...seriously. Look up the core tenants of what Mormons believe and then ask yourself... Does this guy really believe this? If so, do you think he's more or less so suited to our next president?
I think it makes more sense to make it a one way journey. Front load a bunch of cargo ships with MRE's, Genesis type habitats, grow lights, batteries, solar panels, seeds, RTG's, and enough spare equipment to keep them going and tools to make all the spares they'll need. Give them a food buffer and the materials to start growing their own.
The next project would be to start using indigenous materials.
I agree with the insulated lunchbox under the seat. Also, you might want to look into one of those units that you fit into your car window that uses solar panels to run fans to circulate the air in your car. If it's a 140f outside your car could easily go way over 200 internally.
What's odd is if the USADA had clear cut doping evidence they wouldn't have to bring in a string of witnesses. They would merely send out a press release saying "Lance Armstrong failed drug testing on these dates [date1,date2,date3,...], here's the data."
They haven't met that burden of proof.
The issue I see now is that the USADA has acted so poorly they're quite likely going to delegitimize themselves as a testing entity. What they should have done is said "We have a bunch of witnesses that claim they saw Lance using PEDs, however there isn't any current scientific evidence to back this up. We feel he did dope, but that our testing science isn't advanced enough to detect it."
Lance has claimed consistently that he has not doped. Every drug test he's ever taken has come back clean.
Beyond that the people who are testifying against him, were caught doping and were given the deal of "If rat out Lance, you get 6 months, otherwise it's a lifetime suspension."
I agree with the last sentiment of the article. If we're just going to ignore the science and go with what people have said, why even drug test.
I say he's innocent until proven guilty in a court of clear cut science. When one of his many numerous samples finally tests positive for a banned substance, then hang him by his own petard.
Now that the cat is out of the bag that we're using offensive cyber weapons against other sovereign nations to whom we are not currently in a state of war with, it opens us up to attack.
Let's say tomorrow the US announced that it was going to modernize it's nuclear weapons systems and had to build infrastructure to facilitate this, what leg would we have to stand on Iran developed offensive cyber weapons to prevent this?
Recently a vulnerability was found in a pacemaker / defibrillator that reported stats about the patients heart via bluetooth. The attackers found that they could alter the users heartrate and induce the device to attempt to defibrillate the patients heart on cue.
Likewise, vulnerabilities have been found on devices connected to CAN (Car Area Networks) were attackers could over the cellular link to the car (via something like on-star) do things like disable the air bags, engage the cruise control, etc.
Imagine the mayhem a terrorist group could cause if say they took an ultra small device and buried next to the road that randomly would insert malware into peoples cars as they drove by that after some random number of miles, locked the doors, disabled the brakes and air bags and then set the cruise control to 100mph.
You seem to be the exception, not the rule. Your parents decided to actually give you an academic foundation along with the bible studies, that's fine. This took serious dedication from your parents and from you. I'll bet that your parents also got you involved with other children so you were able to build your social skills as well.
Far too many parents keep their children out of the school system because of their fears that their little cherub is going to be corrupted, but then neglect to do anything but read the bible to them.
I lived across the street from such a family. While we went to school, they stayed home and were as their mother put it "brought up properly". Needless to say, it was a scene of high drama with teenage pregnancies and drug abuse.
I've got a laptop running exclusively Ubuntu and the default behavior when the battery gets to 5% is to just hibernate. As for a validation of files, this is a truly trivial problem to solve...
It's my personal policy that anything that gets stored up on the "cloud" is both obfuscated (in terms of file names) and encrypted.
My public dropbox account looks something like:... 078bdeb9-3938-4ae6-992c-56dd7352e814 3b4fdf86-99e3-479f-a09a-34d3d5a1db68... I doubt advertisers will learn much.
Are you arguing that had Stalin had religion, he would have been less of a psychopath? I don't think there's any evidence to back up that argument. There's more evidence that psychopaths will use the mantle of religion as a way to legitimize their acts.
The China comment is complicated because the Chinese government has reversed its position and endorsed freedom of religion (provided it's a specific set of religions)
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I work in Boston for a company that has paid sick leave. We currently have lots and lots of people home sick with the flu. I was there last week. Our company policy is very clear, If you're sick, stay home and get healthy. If you're sitting at your desk with a fever and chills you're productivity is going to be practically zero.
Yeah, there are some companies in the US that have sweat shop like policies regarding sick leave, etc. However, in a place like Boston, I think those companies are in the minority. I'm sure there are people who milk the system, but honestly my company works to make our environment so enjoyable that going to work is fun and rewarding.
Please don't paint all American companies with the brush of stink.
At the pace he's writing the silly things, he'd better hedge his bets and keep his notes, he's no spring chicken and he's still got a few more books to write...
Odds are good he'll get them done before winter take him but there's no guarantee of that.
Winter is coming...
When I went to see it, the row behind me was filled with people who (based on their chattering) through the whole movie had never read The Hobbit, had no idea it was even a book, nor realized it was being made into three movies. So, I can understand why Peter Jackson would want to throw those people a bone.
I liked that this movie was made with a fuller understanding of the middle earth universe (such as the back story of Thorin).
I don't know where you live, but here in Massachusetts there are LOTS of colleges that offer degrees at night. Here's a few off the top of my head...
I was taught gun safety from my father at around age 10 and I remember these as the rules.
1. Consider a gun loaded at all times.
2. Never point it at anything you're not willing to shoot.
3. When lining up the target, don't just think about the target, think about what's behind the target. Paper targets don't stop bb's or bullets.
4. Put your finger on the trigger when you know the consequences of pulling the trigger.
People get hung up about how WW2 started with Germany invading Poland... WW2 was already in full swing. It started with the Japanese invading mainland China and then getting their asses thoroughly handed to them by the Soviets. The fact that the Soviets were completely complicate in the conquest of Poland by Germany is something that's not glossed over at all.
With that all said, you need to change your thinking about WW2 and think about is as merely an inevitable outcome due to the results of WW1.
* Buy yourself a good solid toolbox and cover it with linux stickers. Stenciling your last name on it for good measure it fun as well.
* Socket screwdriver kit with lots of different bits. I recently added a 30 piece tamper proof bit kit. NOTHING is more annoying than dealing with tamper proof screws and not having the right bits. My co-worker just bought a 99 piece tamper kit that has <i>every</i> tamper bit you could imagine.
* Small socket kit with Imperial and Metric.
* A semi-random collection of wire cutters, strippers and pliers. I've also got a good box cutter and a pair of telecom scissors.
* I good bright headlamp. Nothing is more annoying than trying to hold a flashlight and do something like install a disk controller. You'll invariably never have enough hands.
* Label maker. Nobody likes a server room where nothing is labeled.
* Testing equipment: Ethernet tester, Volt Meter
* Large assortment of different size and color zip ties, velcro tape and electrical tape.
That's great that you've got likely several hundred strands of fiber running by your house. Now... if there was a point of presence (POP) behind your house where the fiber came in, went into a fiber switch/booster then things would be a bit more interesting. However since you haven't indicated this, here's what would have to happen.
The company that owns the fiber is going to have to come out, build a little building, dig up the fiber, then cut the fiber, then re-terminate the fiber, put in a couple of bad ass fiber switches, etc. All this stuff also needs power, emergency power, cooling, etc. Then from there, they things get more complicated.
Quite likely they're going to put another switch out there where they can meter the bandwidth going in/out. You'll need some real routing gear to use that connection (since they'll probably dump you out an OC192)
Since you've pointed out that this is rural, meshing is going to only possibly work in a neighborhood and our experiences with large scale meshing have been meh at best since at certain points you'll have all the traffic being funneled through some edge nodes.
So, you're going to have to run (possibly more fibre) to establish your own POP's throughout the community. You'll want to put one down town so you can provide high speed access to businesses, the schools and the town government. Depending on the density of the downtown area you could put in a DSLam and provide high speed DSL to the businesses. Depending on the business that might want more speed so you'll need to provide for bigger/better pipes.
Rural customers are a whole other flustercluck.
Through all of this we haven't even talked about the cost involved. Before you hook your first paying customer up, we're talking about several 100k. Firstly, that building that the telecom company has to build behind your house... they're going to want to defray the cost of that. Those other pops that you need to deploy... you're going to need space, cooling, equipment, power, etc. You're going to need a couple of good network engineers who know what the hell they're doing.
Is it impossible? No. It's totally doable. Expensive, yeah. ROI? At least a couple of years.
Initially when we setup a base on mars we'll send two of everything plus parts, but over time being able to build for yourself using a basic erector set of parts is going to be extremely useful, if not completely necessary. All we need is some calamity that causes launches to be delayed and suddenly they'd be on their own.
As a resident of Massachusetts, I plan on voting for this as well. The reason? When I was a kid, a friend of my parents died of inoperable brain cancer. In the end, he suffered terribly and even at age 10 I could see needlessly. He didn't die with dignity, he died in misery. I would think if I ever found myself in that situation that once the doctors told me, "Look, the seizures are going to get worse, everything is going to get really bad" that I would while I still had my facilities I could say, "That's not how I want to go, I don't want my children to remember their father like that."
With that all said, I hope to never be there, but I want the option and more over I want to give the option to others.
Apparently there's some talk that it might be possible to boost the OrbComm satellite to it's final orbit. The only bummer is how much that's going to shorten the life of the satellite.
Unless he's become naturalized, he's still a Finnish citizen, so all he can add is commentary. I happen to agree with him, but he'd come out in support of Romney, my response would have been the same. He's just one human being among 9 billion with an opinion. Whatever.
As for the substance of what he said... Well... Every time you see Romney on T.V... Just remember... under his clothes, he's wearing magic underwear...seriously.
Look up the core tenants of what Mormons believe and then ask yourself... Does this guy really believe this? If so, do you think he's more or less so suited to our next president?
I suppose Pussy Riot.
I think it makes more sense to make it a one way journey. Front load a bunch of cargo ships with MRE's, Genesis type habitats, grow lights, batteries, solar panels, seeds, RTG's, and enough spare equipment to keep them going and tools to make all the spares they'll need. Give them a food buffer and the materials to start growing their own.
The next project would be to start using indigenous materials.
I agree with the insulated lunchbox under the seat. Also, you might want to look into one of those units that you fit into your car window that uses solar panels to run fans to circulate the air in your car. If it's a 140f outside your car could easily go way over 200 internally.
His magic underwear will protect us all, didn't you hear?
What's odd is if the USADA had clear cut doping evidence they wouldn't have to bring in a string of witnesses. They would merely send out a press release saying "Lance Armstrong failed drug testing on these dates [date1,date2,date3,...], here's the data."
They haven't met that burden of proof.
The issue I see now is that the USADA has acted so poorly they're quite likely going to delegitimize themselves as a testing entity. What they should have done is said "We have a bunch of witnesses that claim they saw Lance using PEDs, however there isn't any current scientific evidence to back this up. We feel he did dope, but that our testing science isn't advanced enough to detect it."
Alleged. If he failed a drug test, you'd think that would be the evidence that the USADA would trot out and say "See, here's the proof"
Lance has claimed consistently that he has not doped. Every drug test he's ever taken has come back clean.
Beyond that the people who are testifying against him, were caught doping and were given the deal of "If rat out Lance, you get 6 months, otherwise it's a lifetime suspension."
I agree with the last sentiment of the article. If we're just going to ignore the science and go with what people have said, why even drug test.
I say he's innocent until proven guilty in a court of clear cut science. When one of his many numerous samples finally tests positive for a banned substance, then hang him by his own petard.
Now that the cat is out of the bag that we're using offensive cyber weapons against other sovereign nations to whom we are not currently in a state of war with, it opens us up to attack.
Let's say tomorrow the US announced that it was going to modernize it's nuclear weapons systems and had to build infrastructure to facilitate this, what leg would we have to stand on Iran developed offensive cyber weapons to prevent this?
Recently a vulnerability was found in a pacemaker / defibrillator that reported stats about the patients heart via bluetooth. The attackers found that they could alter the users heartrate and induce the device to attempt to defibrillate the patients heart on cue.
Likewise, vulnerabilities have been found on devices connected to CAN (Car Area Networks) were attackers could over the cellular link to the car (via something like on-star) do things like disable the air bags, engage the cruise control, etc.
Imagine the mayhem a terrorist group could cause if say they took an ultra small device and buried next to the road that randomly would insert malware into peoples cars as they drove by that after some random number of miles, locked the doors, disabled the brakes and air bags and then set the cruise control to 100mph.
[http://isutech.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/all-your-devices-can-be-hacked-2/]
You seem to be the exception, not the rule. Your parents decided to actually give you an academic foundation along with the bible studies, that's fine. This took serious dedication from your parents and from you. I'll bet that your parents also got you involved with other children so you were able to build your social skills as well.
Far too many parents keep their children out of the school system because of their fears that their little cherub is going to be corrupted, but then neglect to do anything but read the bible to them.
I lived across the street from such a family. While we went to school, they stayed home and were as their mother put it "brought up properly". Needless to say, it was a scene of high drama with teenage pregnancies and drug abuse.
I've got a laptop running exclusively Ubuntu and the default behavior when the battery gets to 5% is to just hibernate.
As for a validation of files, this is a truly trivial problem to solve...
It's my personal policy that anything that gets stored up on the "cloud" is both obfuscated (in terms of file names) and encrypted.
... ...
My public dropbox account looks something like:
078bdeb9-3938-4ae6-992c-56dd7352e814
3b4fdf86-99e3-479f-a09a-34d3d5a1db68
I doubt advertisers will learn much.
Are you arguing that had Stalin had religion, he would have been less of a psychopath? I don't think there's any evidence to back up that argument. There's more evidence that psychopaths will use the mantle of religion as a way to legitimize their acts.
The China comment is complicated because the Chinese government has reversed its position and endorsed freedom of religion (provided it's a specific set of religions)