Nah, the AC is just being a prick, but they are correct.
The correct unit of measurement used when talking about nutrition is kilocalories, but it's become commonplace to drop the "kilo". Wikipedia explains it nicely.
It all depends where the funding for operating the services come from. If public funds are used in the operation of the systems, then they can be covered under access to information. The rationale is that the public paid for those systems, and have a right to see how those systems are being used.
You really don't need a good reason, you just need to be able to specify what you want. In some places, you may be required to cover the costs of retrieving that information (which in itself is a deterrent), but in a lot of places that's not the case.
Yep, but those type of calls the employer very rarely cares about, unless they are showing that you are making an inordinate amount of personal calls on company time. In most cases, if the call to your wife was monitored, you'd never know about it, unless you were passing information or you were making too many calls about the eggs:)
That interpretation is also highly subjective, especially when the employer stipulates all calls made must be for business only. That's where you get into very murky waters and, depending on local laws, it can go either way should there ever be legal ramifications. I wouldn't want to make that assumption, because there have been many examples of employees who used that argument and lost (it really depends where you are).
But that's enough for me. Not looking for an argument, just stating that the reality is that employers can and do monitor calls, and the law is generally behind them regardless of the type of call. Common sense says that if there's anything you don't want people to find out about, you won't use company resources.
There's a specific exception in federal law that grants explicit permission for companies to monitor the lines they provide in the course of normal business. There are a number of articles that outline the business telephone exceptions in wiretapping.
A number of states have implemented legislation which require the employer to notify the employee that the lines are for business use only and may be monitored. This is typically covered in an employment agreement under a blanket statement.
The rules usually (not everywhere) only apply to carrier-owned equipment and communication networks. Most companies own their own PBX and corporate phone systems these days, so are free to use it any way they see fit, including monitoring calls because the monitoring occurs before it hits the trunk lines.
It's pretty simple - if the company owns it, they can use it as they see fit provided it is non-discriminatory. Common carrier rules do not apply because it is a privately-owned network. This applies to pretty much everything, including internal post systems, phone networks, data networks, and communications equipment.
A minor correction - there will not be an optical out on the AirPort Base Station. The article mentions there may be in integrated optical out with new versions of the AirPort Express, instead of an external option.
It's more about the proxy/relay services on the back end which allow the devices to synch up securely (I know, I know, don't berate me for the inclusion of that word) with corporate messaging systems (like Exchange) without the need for a TCP/IP stack on the device or relying on traditional protocols such as IMAP and/or POP.
They also synch more than just email. Calendaring and contact info can by synchronized wirelessly using the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) software and Exchange. It's not just simple email, and the systems RIM uses to provide the services through carriers and corps is a little more involved than just mail access protocols.
Bomb disposal units have used devices like this for quite some time. The shotgun is usually used to detonate (suspected) explosives/explosive devices (some things don't react to . It's just a little safer than sending a human in to do it (except for the robot, of course).
The arms the shotguns are attached to tend to move pretty slowly, and using them against live combatants would not be the simplist task. I think the author of the article was looking to add a little more sauce than necessary. These things are most likely being used to go into hazardous situations to collect information and handle volatile/dangerous substances/objects.
We managed to get satellite in Manhattan. I lived at Broadway and Rector, and the apartment backed onto Church Street facing jersey. This gave us a pretty good Southern exposure which allowed us to grab a signal.
The tricky one was at work. We needed a view at the DirecTV birds, but our building was only 10 stories high. We were on Centre, and backed onto Lafeyette. It took a couple hours, but we actually managed to find a spot on the roof where we could shoot the gap between the buildings down toward Battery Park.
There were also a bunch of bldgs that had a community dish which fed a splitter system that allowed you to get DTV, but you had to make sure the bldg. was wired _before_ moving in.
Ok, I'm babbling. Satellite signals are possible, but it definitely takes some work, some roof access, and some luck in having line of sight.
...or that he can't figure out how to route the signal through the right output?
I have an HD receiver, and it has all the same outputs as what this guy talks about. For my receiver, you have to select the output you will use. By default, this is the component out because that's what pretty much _any_ HDTV set has. If you want the DVI out, you select it.
I'm not in NYC anymore, so can't comment on whether TW disabled that output (I can't imagine why, because it is more encumbered than any analogue output), but it'd be nice to find out if it's because it's administratively disabled, or if buddy just didn't bother to RTFM.
I don't think HD is crap, but then I actually did my research _and_ understand how to use my gear. Something a lot of the "media" people in NYC I met when working there didn't have a clue about.
...of how the railway lines had great infrastructure, and then tore it up when things got shitty for a while. Demand came back a few years later, and the company had liquidated the steel in the lines through tearing it all out.
I'm in Canada, so other countries still have their infrastructure.
I'm sorry - wireless sucks, because as the subscriber numbers go up, so does the sharing quotient. I can see four other APs from my back yard, and downtown is even worse. You only have so much spectrum, which erodes as you add users. Once it's gone, it's gone. Reminds me of a flat ethernet (10bt) segment I saw once that had _2,000_ nodes on it, and the admins couldn't figure out why avg thruput was less than a 14.4kbs modem (at the time).
Don't go ripping the infrasturcture out quite yet. Wireless is ok for casual use, but I'll keep my physical connection any day. It works, it's fast, it's multi-purpose, and it's mine. I like the dedicated line, I hate cel voice quality, and I don't really like my bits going over the air competing with everyone elses.
Ok, rambling, I'm done. DOn't count it out. Infrastructure is just that for a reason.
NB: Drunk. I don't pretend this will make sense, but in my own litle world, I know what I mean.
One of the very first multi-player games that I can recall. In college we'd play for hours into the night, connected through a null modem cable, and it was hella fun. VGA had _just_ made the scene, and I had one colour and one b&w monitor. Let me tell ya, the guy with the b&w monitor had a hell of a time, because blue and red make very similar shades of grey.
Was a great precursor to the RTS games we all play today, and there was something strangely satisfying about bringing on nuclear winter if you were getting your ass handed to you (and the game you were playing allowed nukes).
Simple strategy, good game play, lots of fun, and it's still being played.
There's no ads per se, but at every finish line off to the side there is a raised platform with an Element on it. Look left or right when you finish, they're there (and spread throughout the game in other places, if memmory serves).
...with their "very clean" actions involving bombs and gunfire. Perhaps you should do a little reading on the FLQ.
Their bombing of the Montreal Stock exchange injured 27 people. They planted several mailbox bombs which injured several people, some critically. Their bombs killed three people, and their guns killed a couple more, and that's not counting M. Laporte's death by strangulation.
They were terrorists, and they hurt people. Yes they targeted itms that were symbolic (to them) of what they considered to be an opressive regime, but the collateral damage destroyed peoples lives. They scared people because of those injuries and deaths to further their cause. That's what terrorism is, and terrorists is what the FLQ, or at least the more extreme elements of the FLQ, were.
Do a little reading on the FLQ's
Well, the fact that it's not here makes it all the more fun, because you have to hack it to make it work here. Lotsa good info on how to make it go is available at tivocanada.com, and checkout tivo_canada at yahoo groups.
Exactamaly. With the release of 4.4-lite, all the disputed SysV code was removed to avoid running into any IP issues, and that's been touted by a number of folks as one of its stronger assets.
Going gold usually refers to the point at which the codebase is released to manufacturing for production. Everyone feels the product is ready (enoguh) for prime-time, and it's sent out to be mastered, reproduced, packaged, and readied for distribution to the retail/reseller channels.
I think the learning curve argument is very over-blown. I have met very few people who knew how to administer Windows servers properly - they tend to treat it like a desktop machine in most cases, which it is not. Just because someone can get a service up and running doesn't mean it's running well. I've found that paying more for an experienced admin pays off big, in that they not only know how to manage the boxes effectively, they can manage a lot more than your average bear.
The principle applies to both Linux and Windows - just because it's OSS doesn't mean it's exclusively Linux. OS's tend to become unstable because people do stupid things to or with them, not because they start out that way. I've seen Linux and Windows boxes performing equally poorly because they weren't run properly.
Running X - let alone games - on a RedHat 7.3 box acting as an application platform is not what I would call a typical use for an application platform. If anyone did that with Windows or Linux in my group, I'd have to seriously re-evaluate why they were in my group.
Nothing's been proven, it's all opinions and statistics which are assembled to prove a point.
TANSTAAFL - you get what you pay for. If you buy the best of class hardware and software, get the best of class people to run it too. It only makes sense, but too many people think in terms of bodies, not in terms of right people in the right job.
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Nah, the AC is just being a prick, but they are correct. The correct unit of measurement used when talking about nutrition is kilocalories, but it's become commonplace to drop the "kilo". Wikipedia explains it nicely.
You really don't need a good reason, you just need to be able to specify what you want. In some places, you may be required to cover the costs of retrieving that information (which in itself is a deterrent), but in a lot of places that's not the case.
That interpretation is also highly subjective, especially when the employer stipulates all calls made must be for business only. That's where you get into very murky waters and, depending on local laws, it can go either way should there ever be legal ramifications. I wouldn't want to make that assumption, because there have been many examples of employees who used that argument and lost (it really depends where you are).
But that's enough for me. Not looking for an argument, just stating that the reality is that employers can and do monitor calls, and the law is generally behind them regardless of the type of call. Common sense says that if there's anything you don't want people to find out about, you won't use company resources.
There's a specific exception in federal law that grants explicit permission for companies to monitor the lines they provide in the course of normal business. There are a number of articles that outline the business telephone exceptions in wiretapping.
A number of states have implemented legislation which require the employer to notify the employee that the lines are for business use only and may be monitored. This is typically covered in an employment agreement under a blanket statement.
It's pretty simple - if the company owns it, they can use it as they see fit provided it is non-discriminatory. Common carrier rules do not apply because it is a privately-owned network. This applies to pretty much everything, including internal post systems, phone networks, data networks, and communications equipment.
Maybe their blocks are made out of Lego.
Sorry, I really shouldn't be picky about stuff like that, I just am.
A minor correction - there will not be an optical out on the AirPort Base Station. The article mentions there may be in integrated optical out with new versions of the AirPort Express, instead of an external option.
They also synch more than just email. Calendaring and contact info can by synchronized wirelessly using the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) software and Exchange. It's not just simple email, and the systems RIM uses to provide the services through carriers and corps is a little more involved than just mail access protocols.
The arms the shotguns are attached to tend to move pretty slowly, and using them against live combatants would not be the simplist task. I think the author of the article was looking to add a little more sauce than necessary. These things are most likely being used to go into hazardous situations to collect information and handle volatile/dangerous substances/objects.
The tricky one was at work. We needed a view at the DirecTV birds, but our building was only 10 stories high. We were on Centre, and backed onto Lafeyette. It took a couple hours, but we actually managed to find a spot on the roof where we could shoot the gap between the buildings down toward Battery Park.
There were also a bunch of bldgs that had a community dish which fed a splitter system that allowed you to get DTV, but you had to make sure the bldg. was wired _before_ moving in.
Ok, I'm babbling. Satellite signals are possible, but it definitely takes some work, some roof access, and some luck in having line of sight.
I have an HD receiver, and it has all the same outputs as what this guy talks about. For my receiver, you have to select the output you will use. By default, this is the component out because that's what pretty much _any_ HDTV set has. If you want the DVI out, you select it.
I'm not in NYC anymore, so can't comment on whether TW disabled that output (I can't imagine why, because it is more encumbered than any analogue output), but it'd be nice to find out if it's because it's administratively disabled, or if buddy just didn't bother to RTFM.
I don't think HD is crap, but then I actually did my research _and_ understand how to use my gear. Something a lot of the "media" people in NYC I met when working there didn't have a clue about.
And if I could remember to hit "Preview", I'd even create a link to the pics.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/8413288107686276/
I'm in Canada, so other countries still have their infrastructure.
I'm sorry - wireless sucks, because as the subscriber numbers go up, so does the sharing quotient. I can see four other APs from my back yard, and downtown is even worse. You only have so much spectrum, which erodes as you add users. Once it's gone, it's gone. Reminds me of a flat ethernet (10bt) segment I saw once that had _2,000_ nodes on it, and the admins couldn't figure out why avg thruput was less than a 14.4kbs modem (at the time).
Don't go ripping the infrasturcture out quite yet. Wireless is ok for casual use, but I'll keep my physical connection any day. It works, it's fast, it's multi-purpose, and it's mine. I like the dedicated line, I hate cel voice quality, and I don't really like my bits going over the air competing with everyone elses.
Ok, rambling, I'm done. DOn't count it out. Infrastructure is just that for a reason.
NB: Drunk. I don't pretend this will make sense, but in my own litle world, I know what I mean.
Was a great precursor to the RTS games we all play today, and there was something strangely satisfying about bringing on nuclear winter if you were getting your ass handed to you (and the game you were playing allowed nukes).
Simple strategy, good game play, lots of fun, and it's still being played.
Fire up iTunes
Insert CD
Click "Import"
Flip EMI the finger while iTunes on OSX happily rips the CD with no problems
enjoy the music when and where i want to enjoy it.
There's no ads per se, but at every finish line off to the side there is a raised platform with an Element on it. Look left or right when you finish, they're there (and spread throughout the game in other places, if memmory serves).
So that's why Men Without Hats came from Montreal. It all makes sense now.
Their bombing of the Montreal Stock exchange injured 27 people. They planted several mailbox bombs which injured several people, some critically. Their bombs killed three people, and their guns killed a couple more, and that's not counting M. Laporte's death by strangulation.
They were terrorists, and they hurt people. Yes they targeted itms that were symbolic (to them) of what they considered to be an opressive regime, but the collateral damage destroyed peoples lives. They scared people because of those injuries and deaths to further their cause. That's what terrorism is, and terrorists is what the FLQ, or at least the more extreme elements of the FLQ, were. Do a little reading on the FLQ's
Well, the fact that it's not here makes it all the more fun, because you have to hack it to make it work here. Lotsa good info on how to make it go is available at tivocanada.com, and checkout tivo_canada at yahoo groups.
Exactamaly. With the release of 4.4-lite, all the disputed SysV code was removed to avoid running into any IP issues, and that's been touted by a number of folks as one of its stronger assets.
Isn't SCO's claim on System V variants? If so, then shouldn't their executives at least have a clue who's infringing (in their minds)?
Just wondering... maybe I'm wrong.
Going gold usually refers to the point at which the codebase is released to manufacturing for production. Everyone feels the product is ready (enoguh) for prime-time, and it's sent out to be mastered, reproduced, packaged, and readied for distribution to the retail/reseller channels.
I think the learning curve argument is very over-blown. I have met very few people who knew how to administer Windows servers properly - they tend to treat it like a desktop machine in most cases, which it is not. Just because someone can get a service up and running doesn't mean it's running well. I've found that paying more for an experienced admin pays off big, in that they not only know how to manage the boxes effectively, they can manage a lot more than your average bear. The principle applies to both Linux and Windows - just because it's OSS doesn't mean it's exclusively Linux. OS's tend to become unstable because people do stupid things to or with them, not because they start out that way. I've seen Linux and Windows boxes performing equally poorly because they weren't run properly. Running X - let alone games - on a RedHat 7.3 box acting as an application platform is not what I would call a typical use for an application platform. If anyone did that with Windows or Linux in my group, I'd have to seriously re-evaluate why they were in my group. Nothing's been proven, it's all opinions and statistics which are assembled to prove a point. TANSTAAFL - you get what you pay for. If you buy the best of class hardware and software, get the best of class people to run it too. It only makes sense, but too many people think in terms of bodies, not in terms of right people in the right job.