I don't know about US economic laws but in Switzerland, if something is obviously too good to be true and there has been a mistake, the company can actually declare any contracts made invalid.
When I started with my current (UK) employer, I had a fairly standard probation period. The salary on that contract was £XX,000 per hour. I think they owe me about £19m pounds. More with the 7 years of interest that they've accumulated too. I've often wondered about the "...but it was **obviously** wrong" defence. What's the point of a contract if, if there is something wrong, you can just annul it?
Any UK lawyers want to try it, no win, no fee?:)
Posts like this are what makes Slashdot truly interesting. The fact that you can read what Hans Reiser says, Bruce Perens, or people that were actually involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I've actually wondered what other huge names read this site, read the comments/jokes about them, and just chuckle. Obama, if you're reading this, leave a message anonymously.
so were the complaints filed by amateur radio operators groundless, or does this only speak for the RC modeling community?
Search on YouTube for ham BPL QRM interference, or combinations of those. You'll see god-awful noise all over the airwaves. (QRM = man-made interference in case you were wondering).
Wow, I'd be pretty miffed about the use of 145.8+ for non satellite work. Are they even allowed to do that? There are 2 whole MHz of 2m bandwidth for them to use, and satellites can't exactly be changed easily.
I too, was amazed at how strong the signal is from the ISS. It was maxing out my meter, and that was with a 6/2/70 mobile antenna in the carpark at work. Sounded like at the beginning and end of the recording that you were slightly off frequency - do you start 3kHz up, and go down, ending at 3kHz below, due to Doppler?
Yep, calling on the downlink isn't going to work, and will just annoy local amateurs. Plus you'll be stomped on by someone 200 miles higher than you.
I think it was a bit silly wasting time sending dull (IMO) SSTV images back when Richard could have been QSOing with thousands of amateurs worldwide. He was up there for 10? days, and probably had lots of time spare (as he wasn't part of the crew). The image equipment can be left there, switched on at any time.
Receiving an image is a one-way communication, and (for me) it's the 2-way aspect that rocks. You can hear astronauts - but you can (try to) talk to them too.
That MP3 of the school contact is pretty cool - it's the same one I heard and got the two short vids on my site of. I'd have been sooo excited if I could have spoken to an astronaut when I was at school:) Do you mind if I link to/mirror your copy from my page?
Damnit Richard, man! I was calling you as you passed over the UK, but you never answered. People think I'm mad when I'm looking into the sky, saying I'm trying to talk with spacemen.
If I have to validate an email address, I just look up the MX record for the bit after the @. If it exists, and the bit before the @ looks reasonable, it's good enough for me.
If I have to validate an IP address in Java, I just create a new InetAddress. If it fails, it wasn't valid. That too, is good enough for me.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation.
I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
Sounds to me like you're saying that they're both as uncertain as each other - but I can pay for one? Wow, I'm sold.
A smartphone shouldn't cost $1000 unsubsidized, when much more powerful (though bigger, but full of expensive parts like a big LCD) PCs cost $300. An unsubsidized smartphone should cost under $600.
There's more to a phone than the screen. Are you forgetting the GPS part, the 5MP camera part, the FM radio, the accelerometer, the MP3 player etc? Not to mentioned the radio transceiver that transmits and receives simultaneously on the same antenna.
There's an awful lot to a smartphone (I was using the N95 as a reference here).
I've seen entire, vibrant groups taken down by one or two determined individuals and the idiots that feed them.
You should see what's happened to Full Disclosure recently.
Someone start up a moderated version of FD, please. Although then, I suppose, companies could try and sue the moderator(s) for divulging sensitive information - at least if it all goes through, with no human oversight - John Cartwright can claim that it's the poster's responsibility.
An MP3 encoder would remove these overtones if they were significantly quieter than the original 440Hz tone, since research has shown that the human ear doesn't really notice them if the fundamental is much louder.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only difference between a guitar plucked at 440Hz, and a sine wave at 440Hz is the extra harmonics you get with the guitar. If you took a guitar and filtered all the harmonics away, you'd just be left with a sine wave.
Don't forget though - in the UK, we're way up in latitude terms than almost all of the US, I think. That Gulf Stream keeps us warm, and makes us forget that we're more northerly than a lot of "cold" places.
London - 51 degrees north. Calgary - 51 degrees north. Irkutsk, Siberia - 52 degrees. Feel sorry for the Scots though - Edinburgh is almost 56 degrees north. That's further than Moscow at 55.
Thank god for the Gulf Stream, and our nice warm blanket of cloud.:)
I mentioned this above, but I wanted such a system for myself, so I wrote one that runs on Java enabled phones. mobfob.calum.org. Works well enough. The cryptographic hashing is just an MD5 sum, but if you don't know the key, you can't predict the hash. I just want to find someone who can write a PAM module so that it can be hooked into SSH,/bin/login, etc.
I wrote a little Java app for phones that works in the same way as RSAs SecureID. I'm trying to find someone who can write a PAM module for the server side now, so that after you've logged in with your username and password over SSH, it prompts you for the current token.
This is actually why I started my Location Tracking system a few years ago.
Convince enough people to submit their data (pay them for it, per mile?) and then sell the aggregated data to people who wanted it. Road builders, government, people who want to know where congestion is.
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I don't know about US economic laws but in Switzerland, if something is obviously too good to be true and there has been a mistake, the company can actually declare any contracts made invalid.
When I started with my current (UK) employer, I had a fairly standard probation period. The salary on that contract was £XX,000 per hour. I think they owe me about £19m pounds. More with the 7 years of interest that they've accumulated too. I've often wondered about the "...but it was **obviously** wrong" defence. What's the point of a contract if, if there is something wrong, you can just annul it? :)
Any UK lawyers want to try it, no win, no fee?
And ignore ***all*** these silly, stupid suggestions. :)
Posts like this are what makes Slashdot truly interesting. The fact that you can read what Hans Reiser says, Bruce Perens, or people that were actually involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I've actually wondered what other huge names read this site, read the comments/jokes about them, and just chuckle. Obama, if you're reading this, leave a message anonymously.
After all amateur radio has really changed the world.
You know, it's done quite a lot of good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_emergency_communications and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_history.
so were the complaints filed by amateur radio operators groundless, or does this only speak for the RC modeling community?
Search on YouTube for ham BPL QRM interference, or combinations of those. You'll see god-awful noise all over the airwaves. (QRM = man-made interference in case you were wondering).
OK, I'll mirror it - thanks.
Wow, I'd be pretty miffed about the use of 145.8+ for non satellite work. Are they even allowed to do that? There are 2 whole MHz of 2m bandwidth for them to use, and satellites can't exactly be changed easily.
I too, was amazed at how strong the signal is from the ISS. It was maxing out my meter, and that was with a 6/2/70 mobile antenna in the carpark at work. Sounded like at the beginning and end of the recording that you were slightly off frequency - do you start 3kHz up, and go down, ending at 3kHz below, due to Doppler?
Yep, calling on the downlink isn't going to work, and will just annoy local amateurs. Plus you'll be stomped on by someone 200 miles higher than you.
:) Do you mind if I link to/mirror your copy from my page?
I think it was a bit silly wasting time sending dull (IMO) SSTV images back when Richard could have been QSOing with thousands of amateurs worldwide. He was up there for 10? days, and probably had lots of time spare (as he wasn't part of the crew). The image equipment can be left there, switched on at any time.
Receiving an image is a one-way communication, and (for me) it's the 2-way aspect that rocks. You can hear astronauts - but you can (try to) talk to them too.
That MP3 of the school contact is pretty cool - it's the same one I heard and got the two short vids on my site of. I'd have been sooo excited if I could have spoken to an astronaut when I was at school
Damnit Richard, man! I was calling you as you passed over the UK, but you never answered. People think I'm mad when I'm looking into the sky, saying I'm trying to talk with spacemen.
I imagine it depends what you search for on it.
a-Z, 0-9, -, and .
Frog, meet pot. Water's not too hot at the moment for you, is it?
If I have to validate an email address, I just look up the MX record for the bit after the @. If it exists, and the bit before the @ looks reasonable, it's good enough for me.
If I have to validate an IP address in Java, I just create a new InetAddress. If it fails, it wasn't valid. That too, is good enough for me.
On a mailing list you might not get a response back, or the response might not work and then they say sorry, can't help you. With a support contract, there's a method of escalation.
I'm not saying that it works all the time, but it can sometimes help.
Sounds to me like you're saying that they're both as uncertain as each other - but I can pay for one? Wow, I'm sold.
A smartphone shouldn't cost $1000 unsubsidized, when much more powerful (though bigger, but full of expensive parts like a big LCD) PCs cost $300. An unsubsidized smartphone should cost under $600.
There's more to a phone than the screen. Are you forgetting the GPS part, the 5MP camera part, the FM radio, the accelerometer, the MP3 player etc? Not to mentioned the radio transceiver that transmits and receives simultaneously on the same antenna.
There's an awful lot to a smartphone (I was using the N95 as a reference here).
I've seen entire, vibrant groups taken down by one or two determined individuals and the idiots that feed them.
You should see what's happened to Full Disclosure recently.
Someone start up a moderated version of FD, please. Although then, I suppose, companies could try and sue the moderator(s) for divulging sensitive information - at least if it all goes through, with no human oversight - John Cartwright can claim that it's the poster's responsibility.
An MP3 encoder would remove these overtones if they were significantly quieter than the original 440Hz tone, since research has shown that the human ear doesn't really notice them if the fundamental is much louder.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only difference between a guitar plucked at 440Hz, and a sine wave at 440Hz is the extra harmonics you get with the guitar. If you took a guitar and filtered all the harmonics away, you'd just be left with a sine wave.
How about just getting up earlier all the year round. Move core work time to 8-4PM.
How about not? I'd rather work later, say 11am-8pm, thankyou very much.
Don't forget though - in the UK, we're way up in latitude terms than almost all of the US, I think. That Gulf Stream keeps us warm, and makes us forget that we're more northerly than a lot of "cold" places. :)
London - 51 degrees north. Calgary - 51 degrees north. Irkutsk, Siberia - 52 degrees. Feel sorry for the Scots though - Edinburgh is almost 56 degrees north. That's further than Moscow at 55.
Thank god for the Gulf Stream, and our nice warm blanket of cloud.
Where I live, we use Butane gas for cooking.
In Bhutan? :)
I mentioned this above, but I wanted such a system for myself, so I wrote one that runs on Java enabled phones. mobfob.calum.org. Works well enough. The cryptographic hashing is just an MD5 sum, but if you don't know the key, you can't predict the hash. I just want to find someone who can write a PAM module so that it can be hooked into SSH, /bin/login, etc.
I wrote a little Java app for phones that works in the same way as RSAs SecureID. I'm trying to find someone who can write a PAM module for the server side now, so that after you've logged in with your username and password over SSH, it prompts you for the current token.
You can't communicate via IPv6 with someone else unless your ISPs both support IPv6 via hardware upgrades.
Not sure who told you this. There are tunnel brokers.
This is actually why I started my Location Tracking system a few years ago.
Convince enough people to submit their data (pay them for it, per mile?) and then sell the aggregated data to people who wanted it. Road builders, government, people who want to know where congestion is.
put it in Linux, enable by default and in 2 - 3 years, after everybody upgrade you will see a lot of ....
Like IPv6? That's been in Linux for years, and it's still not getting traction.
Wow. That's some vitriol.