That's why I have an enormous mail folder named CYA
You never know when you need some personal protection in the workplace. If I have an e-mail from someone (or better, several someones) above me in the food chain telling me to go ahead and do something incredibly stupid, I feel much safer in going ahead with said stupid plan.
I get a dropped call or two each week, in an area Verizon advertises as being completely covered.
A few things:
This testing rig isn't able to do a lot of indoor testing (being a car and all). Some buildings are pretty effective Faraday cages.
The cell phone company I work for (no, not Verizon)ocasionally will take hanset testing equipment to large customers, and test their phones. We find between 40-60% of the handsets have some sort of service affecting fault.
No mobile phone company in their right mind will guarantee you won't ever drop a call. You want rock solid reliability? Use wires. There's too much that can't be controlled with any wireless technology (interference, multipath, signal blocking, faulty hardware...).
Telco equipment that you're referring to is for end to end comm. The current requirements is almost nil
I'm sitting in the control room of a cellular telephone switching office right now. If I slide over to the power plant monitor... Hmmm let's see, we are currently drawing 540 amps thru the -48V system, and 180 amps thru the +24V system. Almost nil, indeed.
While most of that is being used to power the telephone switches and cellular radios, there are also a few racks of Cisco and Juniper networking gear also being fed directly from the -48V.
So, to the grandparent poster, it can be done, and it is being done.
One part of the arguement (increase penalties = reduce crime) that seems to get forgotten is that most criminals don't believe that they will get caught.
Most often this comes from them believing that they are smarter than / have outsmarted those who would attempt to stop them from committing their criminal activity.
The common wisdom (increase penalties = reduce crime) falls apart, because in the "bad guys" mind "I ain't gonna get caught, so the penalty is irrelevant."
attribute the decrease to an increased use of spam filters by individuals and businesses
That's the answer I would offer as well.
The major ISPs are offering spam filtering at the server, so the end user never sees 98% of it (unless they disable the filtering).
My ISP is Shaw, and they have a (no extra fee) filter that users can configure from a web page. Either no filtering, identify spam and tag it,but allow download, or auto-delete the spam as it arrives.
When it was first ofered, I ran with the "tag-and-keep" option for a couple of months, and didn't notice any false positives. I've since switched to the "kill-on-the-server" oprion, and only see 4-5 spams a week.
I have heard that Sympatico and Rogers also offer similar filtering. Gmail and Yahoo have filters.
If the users aren't seeing the spam, "obviously" the problem is decreasing...
Not only tax rules. Some jurisdictions require that if you are earning an income in your home, that you have to have a business licence/permit for that address. Which then causes the municipal government to ask: "Is this address zoned for non-residential purposes?"
Of course, if you are telecommuting you can probably fly under their radar for ever, as long as you don't have co-workers or clients visiting.
or theoretically possible clean-up solutions being proposed.
It shouldn't be that hard to clean up space junk.
Andy Griffith showed us the way over 25 years back.
Warning: This device is comprised entirely of matter. Do not allow this device to come into contact with any quantity of anti-matter. The manufacturer is not responsible for any annihilation which may be result from careless handling of anti-matter near this device.
I think that's the big point to this "startling" revalation.
Kids (and adults) are more likely to keep at something if they find it enjoyable. Even if they like reading, hand them something they hate, and they won't be inclined to read the whole thing, or they will shut down their brain and just turn the pages. (When I was 14 I read a lot of sci-fi, but Jayne Eyre was impossible drudgery -- Actually, I tried to re-read it recently, and it's still impossible for me to get into)
Bottom line, an engaged student will always learn more than a bored one. Games engage people in ways that rote memorization or reading certain things can't.
I'm no elevator engineer, but as far as I recall, more complex elevators do know (for example) "It's 9am...
Nor am I (an elevator engineer), but my work does take me into the elevator rooms of many buildings. The vast majority of elevator control systems are electro-mechanical. Any computerization that I see is on top of the relay-to-relay logic. There are interlocks in the relay wiring (this from a friend who *is* an elevator electrician) that prevent the elevator from acting randomly if given conflicting instructions.
The typical result of the computer giving unreasonable commands to the elevator is for the car to go to the nearest floor (or ground floor) and open the doors.
Seriously, I fail to see why "everybody" keeps saying The Gimp's interface is ugly, or non-intuitive, or simply bad. Please quantify "bad", 'cause I just don't see it.
In the event of a terroist attack, cause large scale panic by shutting down a primary means of navigation.
And mess with the communications too. All CDMA cellular base stations are syncronized to GPS for timing. Without it, the base stations cannot hand off calls between sites. Also, many telephone switches are moving to (if they haven't already) GPS basedmaster clock/sync sources.
Of course, being forward thinking they have removed the old system, because it's "obsolete".
Here's another question: Is it likely that this interceptor system can ever be made to work better than the dismal failure that the current interceptor technology that it appears to be based on?
The 0.916 year old could get at my computer if she really tried, but we manage to keep her paws off with gentle coaxing and mis-direction. That and the cables are invisible, being loomed and ty-wrapped. The bundles are held to the desk with hardware.
The 4 year old has "his own" computer - an IBM PS2 with a drawing program, and a couple of simple games.
Even if the liquid is stable and inert from -10C to +40C
Your temperature range is too narrow. It was -24C this morning here in Winnipeg, and it hasn't gotten real cold yet. We average13 days below -30C each year, and about the same number above +30C.
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there are people looking for blame.
That's why I have an enormous mail folder named CYA
You never know when you need some personal protection in the workplace. If I have an e-mail from someone (or better, several someones) above me in the food chain telling me to go ahead and do something incredibly stupid, I feel much safer in going ahead with said stupid plan.
And not have to worry that something might get defaced or vandalised.
Can you imagine the uproar if lil' Johnny's parents saw "disgusting language" in printouts he was using for a school project on baseball?
Having research material in a known state should reduce the school's administration's collective anxiety level.
If they have a few hundred phones, sure.
A few things:
This testing rig isn't able to do a lot of indoor testing (being a car and all). Some buildings are pretty effective Faraday cages.
The cell phone company I work for (no, not Verizon)ocasionally will take hanset testing equipment to large customers, and test their phones. We find between 40-60% of the handsets have some sort of service affecting fault.
No mobile phone company in their right mind will guarantee you won't ever drop a call. You want rock solid reliability? Use wires. There's too much that can't be controlled with any wireless technology (interference, multipath, signal blocking, faulty hardware...).
Telco equipment that you're referring to is for end to end comm. The current requirements is almost nil
I'm sitting in the control room of a cellular telephone switching office right now. If I slide over to the power plant monitor... Hmmm let's see, we are currently drawing 540 amps thru the -48V system, and 180 amps thru the +24V system. Almost nil, indeed.
While most of that is being used to power the telephone switches and cellular radios, there are also a few racks of Cisco and Juniper networking gear also being fed directly from the -48V.
So, to the grandparent poster, it can be done, and it is being done.
One part of the arguement (increase penalties = reduce crime) that seems to get forgotten is that most criminals don't believe that they will get caught.
Most often this comes from them believing that they are smarter than / have outsmarted those who would attempt to stop them from committing their criminal activity.
The common wisdom (increase penalties = reduce crime) falls apart, because in the "bad guys" mind "I ain't gonna get caught, so the penalty is irrelevant."
That's the answer I would offer as well.
The major ISPs are offering spam filtering at the server, so the end user never sees 98% of it (unless they disable the filtering).
My ISP is Shaw, and they have a (no extra fee) filter that users can configure from a web page. Either no filtering, identify spam and tag it,but allow download, or auto-delete the spam as it arrives.
When it was first ofered, I ran with the "tag-and-keep" option for a couple of months, and didn't notice any false positives. I've since switched to the "kill-on-the-server" oprion, and only see 4-5 spams a week.
I have heard that Sympatico and Rogers also offer similar filtering. Gmail and Yahoo have filters.
If the users aren't seeing the spam, "obviously" the problem is decreasing...
I have found numerous errors when reading articles.
And did you bother to fix any of those errors?
It could draw more than that when it's "off"
google cache of PDF.
There are very location specific taxation rules
Not only tax rules. Some jurisdictions require that if you are earning an income in your home, that you have to have a business licence/permit for that address. Which then causes the municipal government to ask: "Is this address zoned for non-residential purposes?"
Of course, if you are telecommuting you can probably fly under their radar for ever, as long as you don't have co-workers or clients visiting.
or theoretically possible clean-up solutions being proposed.
It shouldn't be that hard to clean up space junk. Andy Griffith showed us the way over 25 years back.
My favourite goes something like this:
Warning: This device is comprised entirely of matter. Do not allow this device to come into contact with any quantity of anti-matter. The manufacturer is not responsible for any annihilation which may be result from careless handling of anti-matter near this device.
Was anyone else thinking of this when they saw the headline?
However, they missed goggle.com
I think that's the big point to this "startling" revalation.
Kids (and adults) are more likely to keep at something if they find it enjoyable. Even if they like reading, hand them something they hate, and they won't be inclined to read the whole thing, or they will shut down their brain and just turn the pages. (When I was 14 I read a lot of sci-fi, but Jayne Eyre was impossible drudgery -- Actually, I tried to re-read it recently, and it's still impossible for me to get into)
Bottom line, an engaged student will always learn more than a bored one. Games engage people in ways that rote memorization or reading certain things can't.
many artists are starting to buy it to help them write succesfull songs."
Comercially successful != good
What I've been told by more than one police officer goes something like:
"If they'd only break one law at a time, our job would be a lot harder."
I'm no elevator engineer, but as far as I recall, more complex elevators do know (for example) "It's 9am ...
Nor am I (an elevator engineer), but my work does take me into the elevator rooms of many buildings. The vast majority of elevator control systems are electro-mechanical. Any computerization that I see is on top of the relay-to-relay logic. There are interlocks in the relay wiring (this from a friend who *is* an elevator electrician) that prevent the elevator from acting randomly if given conflicting instructions.
The typical result of the computer giving unreasonable commands to the elevator is for the car to go to the nearest floor (or ground floor) and open the doors.
A keyboard. How quaint.
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c'mon, you know you were thinking it.
that at least doesn't leave any hidden backdoors behind.
as far as you know...
There's nothing to change. It's fine as it is.
< lameness> me too < / lameness >
Seriously, I fail to see why "everybody" keeps saying The Gimp's interface is ugly, or non-intuitive, or simply bad.
Please quantify "bad", 'cause I just don't see it.
In the event of a terroist attack, cause large scale panic by shutting down a primary means of navigation.
And mess with the communications too. All CDMA cellular base stations are syncronized to GPS for timing. Without it, the base stations cannot hand off calls between sites. Also, many telephone switches are moving to (if they haven't already) GPS basedmaster clock/sync sources.
Of course, being forward thinking they have removed the old system, because it's "obsolete".
Here's another question: Is it likely that this interceptor system can ever be made to work better than the dismal failure that the current interceptor technology that it appears to be based on?
Yup,that's my solution, too.
The 0.916 year old could get at my computer if she really tried, but we manage to keep her paws off with gentle coaxing and mis-direction. That and the cables are invisible, being loomed and ty-wrapped. The bundles are held to the desk with hardware.
The 4 year old has "his own" computer - an IBM PS2 with a drawing program, and a couple of simple games.
Even if the liquid is stable and inert from -10C to +40C
Your temperature range is too narrow. It was -24C this morning here in Winnipeg, and it hasn't gotten real cold yet.
We average13 days below -30C each year, and about the same number above +30C.