On the other hand, I spent this past weekend accompanying a group of Cub Scouts on an outdoor skills challenge, which included orienteering.
Proper map-n-compass orienteering, not glorified geocaching.
These kids are 8-10 years old, and that know how to read a map, and use a compass to get from here to there. And start a fire, build a shelter out of sticks, rope, and a blanket, makeshift a stretcher, etc, etc.
And so our justice system does the only thing it can practically do to have a working society... it blames the whole institution.
Yup.
But then the institution often goes looking for an internal scapegoat, and punishes them somehow. Generally (in my experience) that scapegoat is well below the decision making rank within the organization. They may have even pointed out the risks and been told "just do it" from above.
Jaded? Me?
What if it was really just a worker screwing up... say a construction workers accidentally collapses a building and the victim gets a judgment of 5 million dollars. Do you expect the worker to pay this fine? Or would you expect the company to have insurance... thus holding the whole company responsible?
was that worker qualified to be doing what he was trying to do? Who hired an unqualified worker? Who failed to train that worker for the task he was hired to do?
Now, if the worker lied about his qualifications (and falsified documents to support that), then the buck stops there.
But if the employer decided to cheap out by hiring unskilled laborers to do skilled work (Like operating a crane or doing high pressure gas pipefitting) then they bear the responsibility.
Ultimately it lands on the person, or group of people, who made the decision to do something stupid.
And yes, identifying who that is can sometimes be difficult. Trying to obscure the facts to hide guilt should also be punishable.
Unfortunately in the real world no one wants to accept responsibility for the consequences of their decisions.
I originally bought the Boxee Box because I believed it would be more open
So does anyone have experience with the other players in this market?
WDTV Live, Asus O Play, Patriot Box Office, popcorn Hour, something else?
Openness, hackability, connectability, ease of use for low-tech family members, plays well with NAS and Ubuntu, formats/codecs supported, playback quality, heat, fan noise???
Maybe I'm not the only one, but while sourceforge/freshmeant/whatever is a good place to find good open source apps, you also have to wade through a pile of garbage to get to them. Maybe open.org could be a place where only the elite apps get shown off, to get across to people that open source software really is amazing, if you ignore all the terrible or half done projects. Sure it's not very "open" but would go a long way to getting the average Joe to using open source software.
You see, the majority of the population doesn't think as you do on at least a couple of things
That's not exactly news. I expect that no one shares 100% of my views on every subject.
I would be somewhat alarmed if anyone did.
In fact, in those things, it disturbs them to a point they want to say or do something about it.
This is disturbing, though. Trying to "do something about" diversity of opinion sounds like a step toward totalitarianism to me. Toward what China, or many of the theocratic dictatorships in the middle east attempt.
And those places are considered enemies by these same right wing talk show hosts and their adherents.
I still don't get it.
he is enabled by the left's refusal to understand why people listen to him.
Refusal, or inability to understand why people would want to listen to him.
I certainly can't fathom why people listen to this guy (or Limbaugh, or any of the others).
They seem to exist only to inflame outrage, and cause people to phone their shows so they can yell about bizarre conspiracy theories.
Or is there some deeper meaning that I am completely oblivious to?
99.9% of those Linksys routers will have no need to run IPv6 in their effective lifetime.
Sadly, probably true.
i asked my ISP about IPv6 last week and they replied:
We do not have a definitive timeline for the launch of IPV6 addresses anywhere in the Shaw system. We do have plans in place to minimize the impact of IPV4 Exhaustion and provide IPV6 connectivity but the details are not yet publicly available.
There's just no way that there's an internal tech person with the force of will to push the business guys around and all he or she needed was Ballmer's okay to make more impact.
Why not? If the head guy says: "invite this engineer guy into your strategy meetings" when he wasn't otherwise, that's a potentially very good thing.
So, help me out here.
Picture a billboard in some foreign land. Now imagine a picture of you, your little sister, and your parents on that billboard.
Now imagine it's an ad for a condom company, saying that all this could have been prevented...
I guess it could use an ethylene glycol / water mix instead of pure water in it's steam loop?
It wouldn't freeze (at least at normal Canadian winter temperatures) but the different boiling point may cause some (probably not insurmountable) effects.
I wanted to see some of the tech they use on the field, specifically the "flying" camera, the scrimmage line painter, and the 3D stuff.
That stuff doesn't belong to the stadium, it's in the TV network's truck.
Like the guy in the video said "the TV networks have their own equipment in trucks downstairs"
I wonder if they've physically shut down the networks (down, down) or if they just did something like kill the DNS servers? Even in a small network like what Egypt has it would still take a while to get all the network links, towers and DSLAMS, etc. completely off. Even if it would be a little more difficult there are plenty of resourceful people who could get IRC servers and other services up even without the links to the outside world. Most people would consider a DNS failure an outage and it's relatively quick and easy (and just the thing to be sneaky if you have a revolutionary mind).
I doubt they's go to the effort to shut it down at teh customer edge. Moch more effifient to do it at the CO/ISP office.
Could use several methods to actually accomplish this. Perhaps disable DHCP or DNS or authentication, or route all traffic to a static "out of order" page, or shut down the ports to upstream providers, or to international gateways.
Or probably a blend of the above.
And, I have also been wondering, how hard is it to set up wireless mesh nodes using off the shelf consumer hardware? I'm wondering is I have enough stuff in my basement to throw one together in a hurry? Might be an interesting exercise to have the information and software easily available...
That would probably be the most resilient way to get around this type of government interference.
... but where did it go? Are the metals being recycled so that we can produce this new generation of eco-friendly vehicles in the most green way possible? Or maybe to cut costs?
Scrap cars have been recycled for their metal for many decades.
That's where those crushed cars go. They're not just left in piles somewhere to rust. Steel, aluminum, copper. All cheaper to recycle than to mine, refine and produce new material. Not to mention Glass, plastics, electronics, even the fluids. All reclaimed for recycling.
But if millions of households started doing that, the "peak times" would change to become (or at least include) those same night hours.
And, solar roofs in addition to shifting charging start times, and some way of coordinating large loads done together (probably with other things) is a better approach than just doing one thing.
Very few real world decisions are binary, no matter how much the sound bites seem to claim.
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On the other hand, I spent this past weekend accompanying a group of Cub Scouts on an outdoor skills challenge, which included orienteering.
Proper map-n-compass orienteering, not glorified geocaching.
These kids are 8-10 years old, and that know how to read a map, and use a compass to get from here to there. And start a fire, build a shelter out of sticks, rope, and a blanket, makeshift a stretcher, etc, etc.
Ummm, ya wanna guess how that cell tower knows what it's own location is?
i take it you don't use timers when you cook your food..."oh the timer ding'ed that must mean the food is done"...
Oh the reminder that I programmed has alerted me. I should check if the food is cooked yet.
I'm waiting until the pictures are good enough to find that damn lost golf ball.
And so our justice system does the only thing it can practically do to have a working society... it blames the whole institution.
Yup.
But then the institution often goes looking for an internal scapegoat, and punishes them somehow. Generally (in my experience) that scapegoat is well below the decision making rank within the organization. They may have even pointed out the risks and been told "just do it" from above.
Jaded? Me?
What if it was really just a worker screwing up... say a construction workers accidentally collapses a building and the victim gets a judgment of 5 million dollars. Do you expect the worker to pay this fine? Or would you expect the company to have insurance... thus holding the whole company responsible?
was that worker qualified to be doing what he was trying to do? Who hired an unqualified worker? Who failed to train that worker for the task he was hired to do?
Now, if the worker lied about his qualifications (and falsified documents to support that), then the buck stops there.
But if the employer decided to cheap out by hiring unskilled laborers to do skilled work (Like operating a crane or doing high pressure gas pipefitting) then they bear the responsibility.
Ultimately it lands on the person, or group of people, who made the decision to do something stupid.
And yes, identifying who that is can sometimes be difficult. Trying to obscure the facts to hide guilt should also be punishable.
Unfortunately in the real world no one wants to accept responsibility for the consequences of their decisions.
I originally bought the Boxee Box because I believed it would be more open
So does anyone have experience with the other players in this market?
WDTV Live, Asus O Play, Patriot Box Office, popcorn Hour, something else?
Openness, hackability, connectability, ease of use for low-tech family members, plays well with NAS and Ubuntu, formats/codecs supported, playback quality, heat, fan noise???
Maybe I'm not the only one, but while sourceforge/freshmeant/whatever is a good place to find good open source apps, you also have to wade through a pile of garbage to get to them. Maybe open.org could be a place where only the elite apps get shown off, to get across to people that open source software really is amazing, if you ignore all the terrible or half done projects. Sure it's not very "open" but would go a long way to getting the average Joe to using open source software.
So, something like fossfor.us then?
How about less than a decade ago, and in a modern democratic country by the Prime Minister
Or were you being sarcastic, and I missed it?
You see, the majority of the population doesn't think as you do on at least a couple of things
That's not exactly news. I expect that no one shares 100% of my views on every subject. I would be somewhat alarmed if anyone did.
In fact, in those things, it disturbs them to a point they want to say or do something about it.
This is disturbing, though. Trying to "do something about" diversity of opinion sounds like a step toward totalitarianism to me. Toward what China, or many of the theocratic dictatorships in the middle east attempt.
And those places are considered enemies by these same right wing talk show hosts and their adherents.
I still don't get it.
he is enabled by the left's refusal to understand why people listen to him.
Refusal, or inability to understand why people would want to listen to him.
I certainly can't fathom why people listen to this guy (or Limbaugh, or any of the others).
They seem to exist only to inflame outrage, and cause people to phone their shows so they can yell about bizarre conspiracy theories.
Or is there some deeper meaning that I am completely oblivious to?
The publishers took notice. They didn't see "loss" because there never was any. What they saw was "people publishing with little to no overhead."
Not quite.
What they saw was themselves not profiting from every single transaction and they started to panic.
99.9% of those Linksys routers will have no need to run IPv6 in their effective lifetime.
Sadly, probably true.
i asked my ISP about IPv6 last week and they replied:
We do not have a definitive timeline for the launch of IPV6 addresses anywhere in the Shaw system. We do have plans in place to minimize the impact of IPV4 Exhaustion and provide IPV6 connectivity but the details are not yet publicly available.
Just like computer nerds love obfuscated ones...
Buy, yes, I also found the title very hard to parse.
There's just no way that there's an internal tech person with the force of will to push the business guys around and all he or she needed was Ballmer's okay to make more impact.
Why not? If the head guy says: "invite this engineer guy into your strategy meetings" when he wasn't otherwise, that's a potentially very good thing.
Apparently you've never read Dilbert?
Ahh... I was wondering why this was news..
Apparently it's not news or stuff that matters until it affects the USA.
Not that it affected me much, I just tossed my MP3 player back on the charger and carried on.
So, help me out here.
Picture a billboard in some foreign land.
Now imagine a picture of you, your little sister, and your parents on that billboard.
Now imagine it's an ad for a condom company, saying that all this could have been prevented...
Is that "kind of cool", or not?
I guess it could use an ethylene glycol / water mix instead of pure water in it's steam loop?
It wouldn't freeze (at least at normal Canadian winter temperatures) but the different boiling point may cause some (probably not insurmountable) effects.
What!?!?!
You want to conserve the stuff? It's dangerous!!
Take a look here.
We should be calling for the banning of it all together.
But if this type of engine can produce useful energy while safely incinerating what you claim as a "limited naturil resorse" , then I'm all for it.
No, the attacks come over the network (in the case of the wireless devices, over the air).
There's pretty much no challenge attacking a system you have physical access to.
I wanted to see some of the tech they use on the field, specifically the "flying" camera, the scrimmage line painter, and the 3D stuff.
That stuff doesn't belong to the stadium, it's in the TV network's truck. Like the guy in the video said "the TV networks have their own equipment in trucks downstairs"
I wonder if they've physically shut down the networks (down, down) or if they just did something like kill the DNS servers? Even in a small network like what Egypt has it would still take a while to get all the network links, towers and DSLAMS, etc. completely off. Even if it would be a little more difficult there are plenty of resourceful people who could get IRC servers and other services up even without the links to the outside world. Most people would consider a DNS failure an outage and it's relatively quick and easy (and just the thing to be sneaky if you have a revolutionary mind).
I doubt they's go to the effort to shut it down at teh customer edge. Moch more effifient to do it at the CO/ISP office.
Could use several methods to actually accomplish this. Perhaps disable DHCP or DNS or authentication, or route all traffic to a static "out of order" page, or shut down the ports to upstream providers, or to international gateways.
Or probably a blend of the above.
And, I have also been wondering, how hard is it to set up wireless mesh nodes using off the shelf consumer hardware?
I'm wondering is I have enough stuff in my basement to throw one together in a hurry? Might be an interesting exercise to have the information and software easily available...
That would probably be the most resilient way to get around this type of government interference.
... but where did it go? Are the metals being recycled so that we can produce this new generation of eco-friendly vehicles in the most green way possible? Or maybe to cut costs?
Scrap cars have been recycled for their metal for many decades.
That's where those crushed cars go. They're not just left in piles somewhere to rust.
Steel, aluminum, copper. All cheaper to recycle than to mine, refine and produce new material. Not to mention Glass, plastics, electronics, even the fluids. All reclaimed for recycling.
Another +1.
There's no reason cargo should be trucked across more than 2 state/provincial borders. Ever.
Rail for long distances, trucks for short.
But if millions of households started doing that, the "peak times" would change to become (or at least include) those same night hours.
And, solar roofs in addition to shifting charging start times, and some way of coordinating large loads done together (probably with other things) is a better approach than just doing one thing.
Very few real world decisions are binary, no matter how much the sound bites seem to claim.