The FedGov won't control all the pipes, Obama is proposing to strike down laws that prevent cities from building and owning internet infrastructure. Google "Chattanooga broadband" to find out how that works. You won't find any stories about Internet Morality Police, and that's in Tennessee. I'm not too worried.
I work in educational IT, and that generally means some executive wants something shiny with no clue as to the resources needed to make it work. Hilarity ensues.
I'm not a big fan of progressives either. Got a couple pairs last year, but as I type this I'm wearing my old glasses, I find they're better for computer work.
Sure, it flies high, but according to Wikipedia top speed is about 500 mph, and it's very unstable, it would definitely not be doing any fancy twists and turns. So you're talking about a tiny object flying fairly slow and straight at 70,000 feet. I don't see it attracting a lot of attention. The whole point of the plane was that the Soviets couldn't detect it(didn't work out so well, but most civilians aren't walking around with high-powered radar arrays)
I have a 4S, 2+ years old, iOS 8, works great. I have to power cycle it once every few months, no big deal. Mine has spent its life in an Otterbox, maybe that makes the difference.
I played the Giant series of modules mentioned in the article, but never heard of Quagmire. Can't believe they couldn't come up with a better title. Still, fun to see what was going on behind the scenes at TSR.
As far as I know, most minorities have access to electricity, water, and telephones. But treating internet like a utility will somehow keep it out of the inner city? And the free market will soon be bringing low-cost internet to the poor that's just as good as the overpriced connection I pay for? What planet do these guys live on?
We used to have DSL, but we're so far from the substation that streaming video....didn't. So it's overpriced comcast or nothing. Yay free market!!!!!
I will say Comcast's service has gone from pretty good with frequent patches of crappiness, to mostly pretty good. Which it damn well should be, for what we're paying them.
Also, the prosperity gains from the previous transformations seem to be pretty short lived. It's almost as if those at the top rig the system so they get all the benefits.
Bought a new coffeemaker last year, it has an oh-so-helpful alarm to let you know when the coffee's finished. Which can't be switched off. So when I get up early on Saturday to a nice quiet house, my frickin coffee-maker has to emit 5 piercing beeps to let all the sleepers know I'm making coffee. Really nice when someone is crashed in the living room.
Fire departments do a lot of EMT work. This would be a great tool for getting a medic to an injured person in rugged terrain. But aside from that, I'm not seeing it either. And your medic will need to be well-trained in flying this thing, or he'll need a medic. Training is expensive, combined with the cost of buying this thing the market for these seems pretty limited.
In short, I don't see sales of this jet pack taking off.*ducks*
My high school did not have computers. The junior college I attended did, for those that took programming classes. Radio Shak was selling the TRS-80, we'd hang out at the mall and play Star Trek on it. So no, computers weren't everywhere, but they weren't hard to find. I have to confess I'm not familiar with PLATO.
Earth's gravity is roughly 10m/s^2, so the the comet's gravitational attraction is about ten thousand times weaker than ours. Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, and yes, I know "ten thousand times weaker" is crappy phrasing.
" 66,734 attempts to distribute credit-card information..and 345,342 attempts to distribute social security numbers."
Is there a definition of distribute that I'm not aware of? If I break into a bank, I'm not trying to distribute a million dollars. Who are these hackers, Robin Hood?
From TFA: "Since 2006, there have been more than 87 million sensitive or private records exposed by breaches of federal networks,.....
By comparison, retail businesses lost 255 million records during that time, financial and insurance services lost 212 million and educational institutions lost 13 million."
My bank is constantly sending out new credit cards because businesses (hey there Home Depot!) won't implement basic security measures to prevent data theft. Data security is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, but "Blame the incompetent gubmint!!!" isn't where we should start.
I used to work at a beach-front hotel on Maui, a storm wiped out our entire beach in a couple days and started eating away at the grounds of the hotel, until they brought in truckloads of boulders to protect it. It was pretty amazing. I'm told most of the sand at Waikiki was shipped from another island, don't know if that's true.
Be aware of them, and work within them or around them. You might need to upgrade your GPS receiver. My first android phone had GPS, but it was crappy to the point of being worthless.
... almost every doc I open is opened in a locked state, Windows tosses up a message asking if I want to unlock it to make changes, or even to print it, I believe. That's a great way to train your users to click "OK" to every message they see.
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The FedGov won't control all the pipes, Obama is proposing to strike down laws that prevent cities from building and owning internet infrastructure. Google "Chattanooga broadband" to find out how that works. You won't find any stories about Internet Morality Police, and that's in Tennessee. I'm not too worried.
My city does pretty well keeping the water flowing, I'd be happy to give them a shot at supplying my bits.
I work in educational IT, and that generally means some executive wants something shiny with no clue as to the resources needed to make it work. Hilarity ensues.
I'm not a big fan of progressives either. Got a couple pairs last year, but as I type this I'm wearing my old glasses, I find they're better for computer work.
Sure, it flies high, but according to Wikipedia top speed is about 500 mph, and it's very unstable, it would definitely not be doing any fancy twists and turns. So you're talking about a tiny object flying fairly slow and straight at 70,000 feet. I don't see it attracting a lot of attention. The whole point of the plane was that the Soviets couldn't detect it(didn't work out so well, but most civilians aren't walking around with high-powered radar arrays)
I have a 4S, 2+ years old, iOS 8, works great. I have to power cycle it once every few months, no big deal. Mine has spent its life in an Otterbox, maybe that makes the difference.
I played the Giant series of modules mentioned in the article, but never heard of Quagmire. Can't believe they couldn't come up with a better title. Still, fun to see what was going on behind the scenes at TSR.
Great comment. Do you have a newsletter? :-)
As far as I know, most minorities have access to electricity, water, and telephones. But treating internet like a utility will somehow keep it out of the inner city? And the free market will soon be bringing low-cost internet to the poor that's just as good as the overpriced connection I pay for? What planet do these guys live on?
We used to have DSL, but we're so far from the substation that streaming video....didn't. So it's overpriced comcast or nothing. Yay free market!!!!!
I will say Comcast's service has gone from pretty good with frequent patches of crappiness, to mostly pretty good. Which it damn well should be, for what we're paying them.
Also, the prosperity gains from the previous transformations seem to be pretty short lived. It's almost as if those at the top rig the system so they get all the benefits.
Bought a new coffeemaker last year, it has an oh-so-helpful alarm to let you know when the coffee's finished. Which can't be switched off. So when I get up early on Saturday to a nice quiet house, my frickin coffee-maker has to emit 5 piercing beeps to let all the sleepers know I'm making coffee. Really nice when someone is crashed in the living room.
We need a coffee luddite movement.
Yucca Mountain is the best we've come up with, and it's a disaster any way you look at it. And plan B is...what exactly?
Fire departments do a lot of EMT work. This would be a great tool for getting a medic to an injured person in rugged terrain. But aside from that, I'm not seeing it either. And your medic will need to be well-trained in flying this thing, or he'll need a medic. Training is expensive, combined with the cost of buying this thing the market for these seems pretty limited.
In short, I don't see sales of this jet pack taking off.*ducks*
My high school did not have computers. The junior college I attended did, for those that took programming classes. Radio Shak was selling the TRS-80, we'd hang out at the mall and play Star Trek on it. So no, computers weren't everywhere, but they weren't hard to find. I have to confess I'm not familiar with PLATO.
Earth's gravity is roughly 10m/s^2, so the the comet's gravitational attraction is about ten thousand times weaker than ours. Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, and yes, I know "ten thousand times weaker" is crappy phrasing.
I do love the fact that the thing has what appears to be a functional rear derailler.
" 66,734 attempts to distribute credit-card information..and 345,342 attempts to distribute social security numbers."
Is there a definition of distribute that I'm not aware of? If I break into a bank, I'm not trying to distribute a million dollars. Who are these hackers, Robin Hood?
They give plenty to both parties . No reason to think Democrats are in their pockets any more than Republicans.
From TFA: "Since 2006, there have been more than 87 million sensitive or private records exposed by breaches of federal networks, .....
By comparison, retail businesses lost 255 million records during that time, financial and insurance services lost 212 million and educational institutions lost 13 million."
My bank is constantly sending out new credit cards because businesses (hey there Home Depot!) won't implement basic security measures to prevent data theft. Data security is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, but "Blame the incompetent gubmint!!!" isn't where we should start.
I used to work at a beach-front hotel on Maui, a storm wiped out our entire beach in a couple days and started eating away at the grounds of the hotel, until they brought in truckloads of boulders to protect it. It was pretty amazing. I'm told most of the sand at Waikiki was shipped from another island, don't know if that's true.
Be aware of them, and work within them or around them. You might need to upgrade your GPS receiver. My first android phone had GPS, but it was crappy to the point of being worthless.
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...then where does it go?
... almost every doc I open is opened in a locked state, Windows tosses up a message asking if I want to unlock it to make changes, or even to print it, I believe. That's a great way to train your users to click "OK" to every message they see.