In Katrina the power went out, the cell phone towers went down, the police multiplexing radio stopped working. The only communication people had when the water started coming into their homes were their analog phone lines. When everything else stopped working those remained operational. I still remember people calling in to a local radio station (from their landlines) to say that they were trapped in their attic and request help. Getting rid of analog phones is the worst idea I've ever heard and shows that that the people suggesting it have never seen the information black hole that results from a major disaster.
Hum in City of Heroes members of the two player created faction hang out in the battle zone chatting.
In EVE members of the player created factions lie, steal, infiltrate each others message boards, ect.
I think this researcher needs to play some other games.
At $50,000 the Model S is more likely to be used as a fleet car then something you use at home. For those who say this is a waste of money I'd like to point three things out:
1. GM spend 1.2 BILLION to build a PROTOTYPE electric car, which they didn't put into productions. This is money to build a factory that will actually um make cars.
2. Tesla is going to use this money to build electric vehicle components in the US for other companies. Having that kind of production is the US is BIG DEAL for our balance ot trade.
3. Tesla is more likely to pay
Well it's quite simple really. Boeing doesn't expect anybody to be flying one of their big jets without years of experience. If you have a mechanical failure do you really want to have a machine, that may be getting fed bad data, trying to figure out what to do next. (Also doesn't help airbus that they seem to be having many more crashes then Boeing over the last five years).
Sorry to point out the obvious here but Mexico City is located more then a mile above sea level (higher elevation then Denver). Could environmental factors be the reason that people are dying of respritory complications in Mexico but, so far, this doesn't seem worse then other flu outbreaks.
And keep in mind folks, in a normal flu season around 30,000 people (out of a population of 340,000,000) die of the flu in the US.
Playing EvE is like playing D&D at the end of 3.5 with every book ever published for the game. After five years of development their are wheels within wheels. Just explaining to somebody how to PvP in a Rifter, without getting concorded, melted by gate guns or otherwise killed by the environment can take several pages.
It can get overwhelming at times, opps I told you to safe spot but forgot to tell you that you can get probed down in a safe if you don't have a cloak on your ship. Oh but think before putting on a cloak as it'll bork your locktimes, but you're in a rifter that has fast locktimes, but the cloak costs more then the ship!
Well I tend to agree, a Category 3 going to hit a fair distance from the city. On the other hand Katrina weakened a number of levee's. The question is "do you believe the corp when they say they have fixed the damage." I think the number of folks getting out of dodge show what people thing about those levees.
Also there are some disturbing forecasts that, that thing might get up to a 4 or 5. Better to just go ahead and get out then have to be pulled off your roof by the coastguard.
Much of the historic area of New Orleans (French Quarter, Garden District) is on high ground. The lower ninth ward (where flooding was the worst) was developed in the early 1950's by out of state developers. A good number of the most flood prone area's were developed by out of state developers. We just went 50 years without a major storm, few realized how dangerous the areas were.
Actually, people have been evacuating the New Orleans area since Friday. Contraflow traffic started Friday nigh (contraflow consists of state troopers block the incoming lanes of major roads and use them for outbound traffic). Mandatory evacuation means that hospitals and nursing homes have to be evacuated. Every time that happens at least a dozen people die during the evacuation. As a result New Orleans (which has the major hospitals in the region) goes mandatory later then areas to the South, the idea is to control traffic and prevent a jam. More time in transit = more dead people. The areas major hospitals are in New Orleans.
I've worked as a real estate lawyer in the New Orleans area after Katrina. Let me tell you a couple things.
1. Stop it with the "these guys rebuilt in a flood zone" thing. A number of the folks impacted are Cajuns or Acadians. If a Cajun's home floods they either raise it or move to higher ground.
2. Prior to Katrina many of the flooded areas were classified as flood zone X (does not need flood insurance) by FEMA (those maps have now been changed).
3. Many of the people in New Orleans can't financially afford to leave. Unless you're home was a total loss and you got a buyout, if you have a mortgage, not enough in insurance to pay it off and can't sell the house, that doesn't leave many options.
If the government offered to buy out every flooded home owner that was classified as "in Hurricane Zone X" or "behind a federal levee, does not need flood insurance" and got flooded you'd see a lot less people trying to rebuild.
Oh and one more thing, by and large it was the Federal Levee system (maintained by the Corp) that failed, not the state system that failed.
Actually Law School admissions is figured on GPA * Test scores. Not sure if law school would be considered worth, it but most patent attorneys (the patent bar requires an undergraduate science degree) went to second tier or lower law schools. Their undergraduates grades are just too low to qualify for the top schools no matter how well they test. (Not to say that their aren't patent attorneys that graduated from Harvard Law but they're a rare bunch).
Being energy neutral with solar in Britain is actually quite impressive. But for Britain, yeah solar might not be the best idea. Your peak demand is for heating. On the other had a number of major U.S. (San Antonio, Los Angelas, Miami, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, El Paso) are in climate where the peak demand is for A/C. If you have 300 sunny mostly cloud free days a year you might as well use them.
Considering the ads that are running against Net Nutrality on local cable, I can see Google do this. "What is Net Nutrality? It means that you pay more for big companies like Microsoft and Google."
"While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
So lets see:
If I work at AT&T and a headhunter calls me at work or at home the corporation to check my phone records to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I am a competitor of AT&T's, AT&T can find out what VC's I've been calling to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I am sueing AT&T, AT&T can check my phone records to find out when I called my lawyer to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I sign a contract with AT&T to provide me with my competitors phone records AT&T can do it to "protect its legitimate business interests".
You know if I were in charge of secruity for a major corporation I would be extremely worried about this.
1. An act of the legislature can't be libelous. 2. You can't sue somebody for lobbying for something (the whole first amendment thing). 3. Only conduct throwing question on an attorneys honesty and integrity is grounds of disembarment (yes this includes lying if you're lying to a client or to the court. You can put forth your clients arguable position but you can't say that something was A when you know it to be B).
D*mn, we have to use an industry specific website that generates documents that there are no other options to get. The site only runs on IE. I was hoping to migrate the office to Mac next year. If we can't get these docs though we aren't in business.
What I hate most about open source is that the developers don't seem to get it. There is industry specific business critical software out there that will only interface with microsoft products. We can't use OpenOffice because no document assembly program will interface with it and OO.O's developers don't care to put in document assembly. We've been using firefox for everything but one website because firefox can't work with an IE only website. I'd love to use more open source in my business but you don't make it easy.
I live on the gulf coast. Technology is all nice and good. Right now I'd settle for clean drinking water and for congress to finally ponny up the money to fix the roads.
Making the world safe for dictatorship since 2001! Seriously though stop and think about it. Prior to 9/11 America was importing engineers and researchers to keep its tech economy going. A little bit of paranoia and a foreigner coming to America has to worry about getting dissappeared down to Gitanamo. Blow up a subway somewhere every time the paranoia level starts to drop. Keep it up long enough and the brain drain as foreign professionals leave the country/decide not to come and you have a nice economic implosion. Ben Lauden gets what he wants, ane end to the American era, China and Europe get that to. Unfortunately the current administration can't see what's right in front of their face.
Hum I wonder if the FBI is going to investigate me for this post.
I hate to say it but google maps isn't really that usefull for the real estate business. What I really want is to be able to plunk a section, township, range grid on the thing then map out survey calls. Lets me see things that the survey (especially an older one) might not have shown, such as somebody running a d&mn road through the middle of the thing. (Something that the lawyer needs to know to write title insurance).
You may see that, but not for the reason you think. Do you have any idea how much money most attorneys spend for access to indexed online materials? The big thing is the indexing, sure you can find cases free in most instances, it isn't going to tell you what other law is out there on the same subject. The best system, west's keynotes still requires a human (usually a top graduate of one of the nations top law schools, indexing is to important to let some guy in India do it) to sit down and read the cases and input the indexing information. Back in the day Westlaw and Lexis charged $$$$ by the MINUTE for access. Things have gotten a bit better now, but google could clean up if they can provide something better.
I haven't read the briefs but normally any form of content based regulation would fall afoul of the 1st amendment. There is however one loophole that allows for some regulation of speech when the welfare of children is directly involved. Basically the Supreme Court has said that kiddy porn does not fall under the first amendment. On the other hand more normal porn does not fall under this exemption. What it seems that the government is trying to do is make a good of the children case over violent video games. I wish them luck, last year the supreme court made it quite clear that they welfare of the child only applied to actually kiddie porn (as opposed to simulated), I doubt the court will expand the exception to violent video games.
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In Katrina the power went out, the cell phone towers went down, the police multiplexing radio stopped working. The only communication people had when the water started coming into their homes were their analog phone lines. When everything else stopped working those remained operational. I still remember people calling in to a local radio station (from their landlines) to say that they were trapped in their attic and request help. Getting rid of analog phones is the worst idea I've ever heard and shows that that the people suggesting it have never seen the information black hole that results from a major disaster.
Hum in City of Heroes members of the two player created faction hang out in the battle zone chatting. In EVE members of the player created factions lie, steal, infiltrate each others message boards, ect. I think this researcher needs to play some other games.
back the money then the only one of the big three US automakers not to seek bankruptcy protection (yet). I wish slashdot had an edit feature.
At $50,000 the Model S is more likely to be used as a fleet car then something you use at home. For those who say this is a waste of money I'd like to point three things out: 1. GM spend 1.2 BILLION to build a PROTOTYPE electric car, which they didn't put into productions. This is money to build a factory that will actually um make cars. 2. Tesla is going to use this money to build electric vehicle components in the US for other companies. Having that kind of production is the US is BIG DEAL for our balance ot trade. 3. Tesla is more likely to pay
Well it's quite simple really. Boeing doesn't expect anybody to be flying one of their big jets without years of experience. If you have a mechanical failure do you really want to have a machine, that may be getting fed bad data, trying to figure out what to do next. (Also doesn't help airbus that they seem to be having many more crashes then Boeing over the last five years).
Sorry to point out the obvious here but Mexico City is located more then a mile above sea level (higher elevation then Denver). Could environmental factors be the reason that people are dying of respritory complications in Mexico but, so far, this doesn't seem worse then other flu outbreaks. And keep in mind folks, in a normal flu season around 30,000 people (out of a population of 340,000,000) die of the flu in the US.
Playing EvE is like playing D&D at the end of 3.5 with every book ever published for the game. After five years of development their are wheels within wheels. Just explaining to somebody how to PvP in a Rifter, without getting concorded, melted by gate guns or otherwise killed by the environment can take several pages. It can get overwhelming at times, opps I told you to safe spot but forgot to tell you that you can get probed down in a safe if you don't have a cloak on your ship. Oh but think before putting on a cloak as it'll bork your locktimes, but you're in a rifter that has fast locktimes, but the cloak costs more then the ship!
Well if you want a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke who spoke at the RNC in 1992 when he ran for President as a Republican.
Well I tend to agree, a Category 3 going to hit a fair distance from the city. On the other hand Katrina weakened a number of levee's. The question is "do you believe the corp when they say they have fixed the damage." I think the number of folks getting out of dodge show what people thing about those levees.
Also there are some disturbing forecasts that, that thing might get up to a 4 or 5. Better to just go ahead and get out then have to be pulled off your roof by the coastguard.
Much of the historic area of New Orleans (French Quarter, Garden District) is on high ground. The lower ninth ward (where flooding was the worst) was developed in the early 1950's by out of state developers. A good number of the most flood prone area's were developed by out of state developers. We just went 50 years without a major storm, few realized how dangerous the areas were.
Actually, people have been evacuating the New Orleans area since Friday. Contraflow traffic started Friday nigh (contraflow consists of state troopers block the incoming lanes of major roads and use them for outbound traffic). Mandatory evacuation means that hospitals and nursing homes have to be evacuated. Every time that happens at least a dozen people die during the evacuation. As a result New Orleans (which has the major hospitals in the region) goes mandatory later then areas to the South, the idea is to control traffic and prevent a jam. More time in transit = more dead people. The areas major hospitals are in New Orleans.
I've worked as a real estate lawyer in the New Orleans area after Katrina. Let me tell you a couple things. 1. Stop it with the "these guys rebuilt in a flood zone" thing. A number of the folks impacted are Cajuns or Acadians. If a Cajun's home floods they either raise it or move to higher ground. 2. Prior to Katrina many of the flooded areas were classified as flood zone X (does not need flood insurance) by FEMA (those maps have now been changed). 3. Many of the people in New Orleans can't financially afford to leave. Unless you're home was a total loss and you got a buyout, if you have a mortgage, not enough in insurance to pay it off and can't sell the house, that doesn't leave many options. If the government offered to buy out every flooded home owner that was classified as "in Hurricane Zone X" or "behind a federal levee, does not need flood insurance" and got flooded you'd see a lot less people trying to rebuild. Oh and one more thing, by and large it was the Federal Levee system (maintained by the Corp) that failed, not the state system that failed.
Actually Law School admissions is figured on GPA * Test scores. Not sure if law school would be considered worth, it but most patent attorneys (the patent bar requires an undergraduate science degree) went to second tier or lower law schools. Their undergraduates grades are just too low to qualify for the top schools no matter how well they test. (Not to say that their aren't patent attorneys that graduated from Harvard Law but they're a rare bunch).
Being energy neutral with solar in Britain is actually quite impressive. But for Britain, yeah solar might not be the best idea. Your peak demand is for heating. On the other had a number of major U.S. (San Antonio, Los Angelas, Miami, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, El Paso) are in climate where the peak demand is for A/C. If you have 300 sunny mostly cloud free days a year you might as well use them.
Considering the ads that are running against Net Nutrality on local cable, I can see Google do this. "What is Net Nutrality? It means that you pay more for big companies like Microsoft and Google."
"While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
So lets see:
If I work at AT&T and a headhunter calls me at work or at home the corporation to check my phone records to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I am a competitor of AT&T's, AT&T can find out what VC's I've been calling to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I am sueing AT&T, AT&T can check my phone records to find out when I called my lawyer to "protect its legitimate business interests".
If I sign a contract with AT&T to provide me with my competitors phone records AT&T can do it to "protect its legitimate business interests".
You know if I were in charge of secruity for a major corporation I would be extremely worried about this.
1. An act of the legislature can't be libelous.
2. You can't sue somebody for lobbying for something (the whole first amendment thing).
3. Only conduct throwing question on an attorneys honesty and integrity is grounds of disembarment (yes this includes lying if you're lying to a client or to the court. You can put forth your clients arguable position but you can't say that something was A when you know it to be B).
D*mn, we have to use an industry specific website that generates documents that there are no other options to get. The site only runs on IE. I was hoping to migrate the office to Mac next year. If we can't get these docs though we aren't in business.
What I hate most about open source is that the developers don't seem to get it. There is industry specific business critical software out there that will only interface with microsoft products. We can't use OpenOffice because no document assembly program will interface with it and OO.O's developers don't care to put in document assembly. We've been using firefox for everything but one website because firefox can't work with an IE only website. I'd love to use more open source in my business but you don't make it easy.
I live on the gulf coast. Technology is all nice and good. Right now I'd settle for clean drinking water and for congress to finally ponny up the money to fix the roads.
Reminds me of the Air Races in the 20's and 30's that gave aviation its start. Undoubtably they hope for the same result.
Making the world safe for dictatorship since 2001! Seriously though stop and think about it. Prior to 9/11 America was importing engineers and researchers to keep its tech economy going. A little bit of paranoia and a foreigner coming to America has to worry about getting dissappeared down to Gitanamo. Blow up a subway somewhere every time the paranoia level starts to drop. Keep it up long enough and the brain drain as foreign professionals leave the country/decide not to come and you have a nice economic implosion. Ben Lauden gets what he wants, ane end to the American era, China and Europe get that to. Unfortunately the current administration can't see what's right in front of their face. Hum I wonder if the FBI is going to investigate me for this post.
I hate to say it but google maps isn't really that usefull for the real estate business. What I really want is to be able to plunk a section, township, range grid on the thing then map out survey calls. Lets me see things that the survey (especially an older one) might not have shown, such as somebody running a d&mn road through the middle of the thing. (Something that the lawyer needs to know to write title insurance).
You may see that, but not for the reason you think. Do you have any idea how much money most attorneys spend for access to indexed online materials? The big thing is the indexing, sure you can find cases free in most instances, it isn't going to tell you what other law is out there on the same subject. The best system, west's keynotes still requires a human (usually a top graduate of one of the nations top law schools, indexing is to important to let some guy in India do it) to sit down and read the cases and input the indexing information. Back in the day Westlaw and Lexis charged $$$$ by the MINUTE for access. Things have gotten a bit better now, but google could clean up if they can provide something better.
I haven't read the briefs but normally any form of content based regulation would fall afoul of the 1st amendment. There is however one loophole that allows for some regulation of speech when the welfare of children is directly involved. Basically the Supreme Court has said that kiddy porn does not fall under the first amendment. On the other hand more normal porn does not fall under this exemption. What it seems that the government is trying to do is make a good of the children case over violent video games. I wish them luck, last year the supreme court made it quite clear that they welfare of the child only applied to actually kiddie porn (as opposed to simulated), I doubt the court will expand the exception to violent video games.
I get the feeling what the afghan people want most right now is to execute forign taliban members on sight.