Ok, I'll deposit $100 in a money market account. On April 14, 2029, you are welcome to $100 or whatever fraction of $100 is in the account. Just remember I'm planning on hosting an end of the world party on the 12th, so I will withdraw any amount I feel appropriate. (The odds should be better known by then...)
If you are capturing to a Windows, or Mac, using Haupauge! software, you might want to look at the Haupauge! set top box to play from your recordings.
If you are using MythTV on a Linux box, you may want to set up an XBox MythTV front end. Or build a box based on a ViaC3 600 chip with a mpeg decoder.
If you are using some other setup to record your media, you are pretty much on your own for figuring out how to put together a front end for it. XBox, or possibly even a PS2 may work for you. The software you are already using may recomend some other alternatives.
Both Wells Fargo, and Bank of America have headquarters in California, I beleive thay are also charterd in CA. AE is out of NY if I remember correctly. Not sure about E-Trade, though I would suspect it is incorporated in Delaware.
Granted I could be wrong all about that.
While banks may have a scramble getting new contracts in place, the hardware would be supported by NCR or some other vendor, and may very well be replaced with NCR and Fujitsu machines fairly quickly.
Diebold's largest business may be ATM machines, but they are hardly alone in the industry. Additionally banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America are doing business across the US. All of that business would be impacted.
Were you able to verify that your vote counted as one or more votes for Bush? I mean without your ability to prove that your vote counted as purchased, you may be required to return the money you took to make that vote.
I'm thinking it should go one step further. "... and shall do no business with any company with offices in California for four years."
I mean it's not like they do any improtant business with anyone like Bank of America, or Wells Fargo. Is it? Or American Express, E-Trade, or any other financial institution that uses ATM machines...
That I think would hurt them. I put the restriction of four years as I think that is a reasonable period considering the offense related to elections. Some might suggest 6 years (term for a Senate seat.)
A probation review might be made available two years in, to show that they have remediated their faults. I think a demonstration of perhaps a change of the govenore, perhaps in Florida, might be a good indication that they are getting things fixed. Others might want them to submit a proof of the correctness of the code. (To be reviewed by the academic community.) Considering that a proof for all functions of a program does not provide a proof of the program as a whole, I am not sure that they can do it.
Most of the MS Office tools allow you to save meta informaiton in the ile Properties dialog. It would be nice if this could be automatically filled in based upon the content of the file, but even then you would have to tidy it up.
Obviously there are a few desktop search tools available to use for keeping track of this information.
If you are using Oo.o instead of MSOfice, you should find the same capabilities for saving meta information.
Another option is to set up a 'keyword' field within documents that you are creating in ordinary text editors. Or set up a template that you use for each applicaiton with fields specifically for various meta information.
Some others will point out that you should be using some xml to keep track of this. No argument, just haven't used it so can't advocate it.
You may also want to create an index.html file in each directory you keep specific customer files in, where you document the keywords that are appropriate for that customer. Obviously those keywords should appear somewhere in the content files for those customers as well, otherwise it will be of little help.
I believe that Google sells an Intranet server that you can use to index your internal documents and internal users only would have access to those documents.
I am reasonably sure that there are other search tools available, WAIS, plugins for ZOPE, etc. that may help you as well.
The worst part of keeping track of documents is that somewhere along the line someone is going to forget about updating the kewords in a file as it is copied into a new directory for a different customer. For some time after that, the indexes will bring up the wrong file with a keyword search. This will ultimately be fixed when someone finds that file while looking for something else, and realizes what needs to be fixed, and corrects it for you. Then you have to wait for the document to be re-indexed. Versioning will probably create a few problems with that as well.
The radar in question is for follow collision avoidance. You set cruise control, and this stuff makes sure that you are not cruise controlling yourself into the rear end of the car ahead of you.
I would just be happy to prove him wrong by living through the next hundred years.
Part of the issue with a couple of them is that a super-volcano eruption can easily make earth 'habitable' but not for us.
Likewise for asteroid impacts.
Leaving the earth "Habitable" does not mean that we can comfortably (or for that matter uncomfortably) live on earth for some period after the event. Earth happens to be "habitable" for a lot of creatures that happen to be extinct because of our own hand right now. Dodos, Passenger Pigeons, etc. As well as being theoretically habitable to creatures we may, or may not have a hand in making extinct, such as Mamoths, and Sabertooth tigers.
The fact that we are at the top of the food chart at the moment doesn't mean that we have to be here.
Super-bombs for astroids, and drilling out preasure for volcanos sounds reasonable, however the fact remains that you still need to find a way to deploy that super-bomb, and get it to the astroid to push it out of it's path towards us. What exactly are you going to do with the preasure you 'drill' out of the volcano? Do you have a plan for it, or are you thinking you can just "release" it in a controlled manner? Kilauea's ben activly erupting since 1983. You can go and watch eruptions relatively safely. It's considered a mild form of a volcano. Mt. St. Helens has had activity overthe past year, and no-one is recomending you be anywhere near it when it erupts. Mt. St. Helens is a small volcano compared to the area considered to be the volcano at Yellowstone. Drilling either to "reduce the preasure" seems a bit unlikely to me.
As far as astroids are concerned, you want to start moving them out of an impact path as far away as possible. Launching a 'super bomb' from earth is a nice idea, but it would be better to have such devices off earth at the time they are needed. (Get them out of the gravitational hole where you have a really small launch window to get them on target.) This means you now have to contend with the activists who are going to fight against the launching of whatever type of 'super-bomb' you plan on putting into orbit. Have fun.
>>Use the administrative tools available to restrict the hours a professor may be logged in to match his or her published office hours, and enforce automatic logouts for extended (more than one hour) idle times.
>Sounds good. What happens if he wants to work from home though?
That's why they have admin access to their workstation at home. It is up to them to have a mechanism for taking their work home, or not.
Acutally the worst offenders of this would be the under and post grads who are doing the late night crunch time work. They however will either be using lab computers (if they even exist any more) or their own computers in their dorms or apartments.
>> When a workstation has been detected to be infected with a virus, or spyware, remotely set the gateway for that workstation to 127.0.0.1, disable the switch port the workstation is connected to, and set the dhcp record in the dhcp server specific to the mac address for the workstation to also set the gateway to 127.0.0.1 until the workstation has been cleaned.
>What happens when the virus/worm/what-have-you wants to infect machines on the local subnet. A gateway is not necessary to access machines on the same subnet.
This is why you admin down their network port. If you have full admin privleges to set the gateway to 127.0.0.1, you should be able to set the ip address for the user to 127.x.x.x, where x.x.x is the 24bit sequence number for the infection count. This should correlate back to a database record identifying exactly what virus was detected, or if there is some other incident in question, what happened. Note as well that an entire class A network is available under 127.x.x.x, none of the traffic directed to will ever appear on the wire.
Ok, I am ignoring the fact that there are bugs in the wild that will spoof the source address, and thus can send traffic that appears to be from a valid IP address. This is why you disable the network port on the hub or switch, and is the real reason you want to be able to manage the hubs and switches that are part of your network.
A lot of Cisco switches also allow you to lock a MAC address to ta specific port, and will automatically disable other ports if you plug an unauthorized nic into them. I can't speak for other switches, though I suspect Extream supports similar features.
>> Lastly set their network storage space to read only pending confirmation that that space does not contain any viri.
>Readonly? Why? so someone else can open an infected file? Maybe allow directory scans, but to allow readonly access means you have an inkling there may be a virus around. With that knowledge, you should take all precautions. That would include blocking read access as well.
Actually I was considering non-shared network storage. Storage space made available to the end user to use for backups. Since you have already locked out the user, making the space read only means that the user may be able to collect documents via a laptop, or other device, and yes this does allow for the prospect of an infected file being brought back down, but if the prof wants to take his Ph.D. disertation home and work on it, and perhaps deal with the prospect of having an infected file that he has to work with, I gaurantee he is going to scream a lot less if he can get at it read only, than if it is completely unavailable.
Now I grant you Doctoral candidates in the computer field are generally real geeks. The head of the department at my alma matter safegaurded his own thesis by giving copies to all his friends. I understand he needed to make to copies.
remotely manage their machines, using any of a number of tools.
Restrict logons to one instance.
Use the administrative tools available to restrict the hours a professor may be logged in to match his or her published office hours, and enforce automatic logouts for extended (more than one hour) idle times.
When a workstation has been detected to be infected with a virus, or spyware, remotely set the gateway for that workstation to 127.0.0.1, disable the switch port the workstation is connected to, and set the dhcp record in the dhcp server specific to the mac address for the workstation to also set the gateway to 127.0.0.1 until the workstation has been cleaned.
Feel free to advise the professors involved that you will get to them as soon as you have handled the network issues for the university president, and his or her immediate staff, as well as the people who are paying you.
Lastly set their network storage space to read only pending confirmation that that space does not contain any viri.
Should be simple enough to go take a look at the BOFH journals and improvise from there.
I seem to recall a quip in one of the books on silly valley where a programer criticised the 'draw a circle' function in BASIC, for being poorly written in front of Bill Gates. Turns out it was Bill who wrote the function. (unbeknownst to the developer doing the criticising at the time)
Arguably Bill did more for personal computers than most anyone else out there. I would have to point out however that most of what he has done is related to his business ability rather than his software writing abilities.
Actually, he showed up in "A Call To Arms." Which was one of the made for TV movies, and has been noted elsewhere was the segway between the B5 series, and the Crusade series. (As did the young lady portraying a thief. Wouldn't be surprised if she shows up as well.)
Other Technomages did show up in the series before the shadow war broke in earnest. They were on their way to a place of privacy. The intent being to prevent their knowledge from being used in battle.
Not sure if this will help, but Cringly mentioned a tri-band card for the sl-6000 from sharp that supported wifi and at least one cell phone archetecture for data connectivity in http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930. html
I did not find any information on the links page for that article that identified what card that is.
The SL-6000 supports both a CF slot as well as a MMC/SD slot. However to the best of my knowledge the MMC/SD slot does not support a communications archetecture, so I presume the tri-band card indicated is a CF card. I have not had any luck searching for a 'tri-mode CF 802.11' card however, so unless he is using a card that is no longer available (very possible) he may be switching between wifi and tri-mode (gsm/gprs) cards as needed.
I think that the issue is that the site is not slashdoted, so/. readers are either hung up on actually reading TFA, or are in shock that they can't complain that TFA has been slashdoted.
Silly MSN admins, don't they understand that/. readers need to experience the/. effect so that they have something to really complain about?
Not entirely correct. In several states, if you are hourly, and are paid more than some arbitrarily selcected rate, say $25 per hour, you do not get 'overtime' in the sense of time and a half for every hour over whatever period is in consideration, (8 per day, 40 per week.)
A significant fraction of games developers are earning more than this rate, so while they may get paid for the hours they work, they don't get 'overtime'.
A possibility is that EA is going to internally classify these jobs as eligable for 'Overtime' rates, of 1.5 times hourly rate per 'overtime' hour. The question then will be where they set the starting point for overtime hours. If they are exempt from state regulations relating to when overtime begins because of the pay rate, they could set the start at 12 hours per day, or 60 hours per week, and discourage developers from exceeding these limits.
Let me see if I have this straight. The grandparent of this missive specifies that an electric car that gets someone to work and back would be a very feasable Second car, without specifying what the first car would be. And here you are complaining about how no one would want to take a long trip where they would have to stop every 200 miles and wait for ten hours to charge before continuing?
What do you think that first car is supposed to be for? Looks? That's the car you take long trips with. It's the one with the 12 gallon tank and 35 mpg (or 35 gallon tank and 12 mpg if it's a SUV) giving you a 420 mile range, and a 10 -20 min refill stop.
Additionally if as the original article states, it takes only 1 hour to recharge, after a 200 mile drive, well, lets see. 200 miles averaging 50 miles per hour, gets me a four hour drive. (I like to take a break every couple of hours to stretch my legs, let the dogs get some relief, etc. Your experience may vary) If I took off at 8 am, that gets me to about noon. Hey lunch time. An hour break? Sure that's workable for me. The car gets filled up at the same time I do, I get a few more minutes to stretch my legs, and see if I can hook up with the babe behind the counter (Probably won't work, I am a/. poster after all, but if you don't try, it obviously never will work.) and about 1:15 in the afternoon I'm ready to take off again. Get to the Motel at 5:15 pm, and it's time for both my car to get it's recharge, and me to grab another bite to eat.
To further agrivate you, I work about 10 miles from work. If I can get 200 miles on a charge, that's 10 days of driving between re-charges. Which is about how often I have to look at refilling my current car. If I add in an aditional 5 miles each way per day for food, trips to the gym, movies, etc. we get down to needing to recharge once a week. Again I don't think there are too many people who would complain about that.
I also see quite a few people complaining about the replacing the batteries every N years, and that being exceptionally expensive. The question becomes is N greater than, or less than R, the number of years a car owner will take to replace that car anyway? I seem to recall that the average new car buyer replaces his or her car every 2 years. Used car owners may replace their car less frequently, but I presume that they will own a car for less than 5 years before replacing it with another used car. If N is more than 2, it does not impact the average new car buyer. If N is more than 7, then the average used car buyer (presuming he or she is buying one of those 2 year old used cars) is going to dump the car at about the time the batteries are ready to die anyway.
My suspicion is that at the moment N is about 2-3 years. Not so bad for the new car buyer for use, but not so great for the resale value of the car. I base this estimate on experience with UPS batteries which tend to last between 2 and 3 years. At the same time I have seen car batteries last between 7 and 10 years. The drain/recharge cycle is vastly different for both of these types of batteries, compared to an electric car's ussage characteristics, but we kind of expected that as well.
Get N to be over 10 years for a complete replacement, or N sub n (replacement of individually identified failed cells) to be greater than 2, and you are looking at maintenance costs not all that different from ongoing maintenance on standard petrol cars.
What are the primary concerns I personally would have? I live in MN. Unless someone advises me that they have come up with a workable heating system for an electic car, I would probably spend most of my drive time during the winter bundled up in more winter clothing than I would generally like.
This still does not eliminate the obvious falicy of the argument to begin with.
The use of RFID in any capacity for surgury is a cruch that is not necessary.
ID the paitent? How about doing a hand geometry check to see if the paitent on the table is the right one for the charts that have been brought up?
Tools count? (I.E. don't leave surgical tools in the paitent you did surgury on) As the grandparent of this missive points out, it might be a good idea to take a count of how many tools have been brought to the paitent, and make sure that many tools left the paitent (except for those elements that are expected to be installed, such as replacement hips.)
For that matter pretty much every situation where you can envision using RFID tags, there exists alternatives.
The one thing that I can think of that an RFID tag may provide fundamentally better result than the existing alternatives is in counter-shoplifting. As it is, not a day goes by when people walk past the panels at the door of their store, and some tag that didn't get erased at the checkout counter doesn't trip the system. Likewise I have personally purchased products at one store, successfully passed their system, only to walk into the store next door, tripping theirs.
A system that asks for all the rfid numbers, and checks to see if they are in the sold catagory would tend to reduce the number of false hits. Likewise if it isn't in the inventory to begin with, you wouldn't trip an alarm either.
While that does give a positive use of the technology to the very same retailers who are doing their best to take advantage of it, I am not sure that it passes the cost/savings benifit for just that, and I know it sets up a prime example of the very same arguments that people specifically hate aboute retailers using this technology, in that Every time you walk in or out of the doors of that retailer, the possibility exists for them to track you, track your interests, and collect marketable information tied directly to you that may be sold or even used internally in ways you don't want it to be used (Bill always selects Lavoris over Scope, He's walking down the mouthwash line, send a signal to the Lavoris display to bump the price up 5 cents.) and in other ways that neither you, nor I can predict today.
Granted that's my opinion, and I accept that I can be wrong.
Unless the people working on getting these crt's flat are also improving their power draw so that they draw less than an LCD, I personally am not interested.
As I understand it, and I am not an Archaeologist by training, the usual method for 'carbon dating' tools is to track the apparent layer for a firepit approximating the same layers as the tools were found in.
Most 'digs' are done at locations where every so often a 'layer' is added covering already existing layers. Examples being cave openings where material from further up the cave is washed over the existing layers in the cave, and stream juncturs where annual spring flooding adds layers of silt to the area.
One of the complaints in some areas is that fire pits (the remaining charcole is generally a good carbon dating source as it is organic carbon, and primarily what is left is carbon) may be contaminated with naturally occuring coal in the area. West Virginia sites are occasionally accused of being affected. The idea being that if you are not certain that the charcoal in question is not the remains of coal being burned, your sample age goes from 13-15,000 years to hundreds of thousands of years with little trouble. (Except to the archaeologist trying to date the percieved tools in the area.)
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Well, they still made more money than the people working at Walmart...
both before and after taxes, which they didn't pay, but the people working at Walmart did.
Ok, I'll deposit $100 in a money market account. On April 14, 2029, you are welcome to $100 or whatever fraction of $100 is in the account. Just remember I'm planning on hosting an end of the world party on the 12th, so I will withdraw any amount I feel appropriate. (The odds should be better known by then...)
The only way another J-Lo and Ben movie bomb would be effective, would be if it were not also a dud.
to, it's a bit difficult to specify a solution.
If you are capturing to a Windows, or Mac, using Haupauge! software, you might want to look at the Haupauge! set top box to play from your recordings.
If you are using MythTV on a Linux box, you may want to set up an XBox MythTV front end. Or build a box based on a ViaC3 600 chip with a mpeg decoder.
If you are using some other setup to record your media, you are pretty much on your own for figuring out how to put together a front end for it. XBox, or possibly even a PS2 may work for you. The software you are already using may recomend some other alternatives.
Good luck.
-Rusty
Both Wells Fargo, and Bank of America have headquarters in California, I beleive thay are also charterd in CA. AE is out of NY if I remember correctly. Not sure about E-Trade, though I would suspect it is incorporated in Delaware.
Granted I could be wrong all about that.
While banks may have a scramble getting new contracts in place, the hardware would be supported by NCR or some other vendor, and may very well be replaced with NCR and Fujitsu machines fairly quickly.
Diebold's largest business may be ATM machines, but they are hardly alone in the industry. Additionally banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America are doing business across the US. All of that business would be impacted.
-Rusty
-Rusty
Were you able to verify that your vote counted as one or more votes for Bush? I mean without your ability to prove that your vote counted as purchased, you may be required to return the money you took to make that vote.
Renyolds. Though you do have to buy the rolls.
I'm thinking it should go one step further. "... and shall do no business with any company with offices in California for four years."
I mean it's not like they do any improtant business with anyone like Bank of America, or Wells Fargo. Is it? Or American Express, E-Trade, or any other financial institution that uses ATM machines...
That I think would hurt them. I put the restriction of four years as I think that is a reasonable period considering the offense related to elections. Some might suggest 6 years (term for a Senate seat.)
A probation review might be made available two years in, to show that they have remediated their faults. I think a demonstration of perhaps a change of the govenore, perhaps in Florida, might be a good indication that they are getting things fixed. Others might want them to submit a proof of the correctness of the code. (To be reviewed by the academic community.) Considering that a proof for all functions of a program does not provide a proof of the program as a whole, I am not sure that they can do it.
Then again, it's just some ideas.
-Rusty
Most of the MS Office tools allow you to save meta informaiton in the ile Properties dialog. It would be nice if this could be automatically filled in based upon the content of the file, but even then you would have to tidy it up.
Obviously there are a few desktop search tools available to use for keeping track of this information.
If you are using Oo.o instead of MSOfice, you should find the same capabilities for saving meta information.
Another option is to set up a 'keyword' field within documents that you are creating in ordinary text editors. Or set up a template that you use for each applicaiton with fields specifically for various meta information.
Some others will point out that you should be using some xml to keep track of this. No argument, just haven't used it so can't advocate it.
You may also want to create an index.html file in each directory you keep specific customer files in, where you document the keywords that are appropriate for that customer. Obviously those keywords should appear somewhere in the content files for those customers as well, otherwise it will be of little help.
I believe that Google sells an Intranet server that you can use to index your internal documents and internal users only would have access to those documents.
I am reasonably sure that there are other search tools available, WAIS, plugins for ZOPE, etc. that may help you as well.
The worst part of keeping track of documents is that somewhere along the line someone is going to forget about updating the kewords in a file as it is copied into a new directory for a different customer. For some time after that, the indexes will bring up the wrong file with a keyword search. This will ultimately be fixed when someone finds that file while looking for something else, and realizes what needs to be fixed, and corrects it for you. Then you have to wait for the document to be re-indexed. Versioning will probably create a few problems with that as well.
Good luck.
-Rusty
The radar in question is for follow collision avoidance. You set cruise control, and this stuff makes sure that you are not cruise controlling yourself into the rear end of the car ahead of you.
-Rusty
I would just be happy to prove him wrong by living through the next hundred years.
Part of the issue with a couple of them is that a super-volcano eruption can easily make earth 'habitable' but not for us.
Likewise for asteroid impacts.
Leaving the earth "Habitable" does not mean that we can comfortably (or for that matter uncomfortably) live on earth for some period after the event. Earth happens to be "habitable" for a lot of creatures that happen to be extinct because of our own hand right now. Dodos, Passenger Pigeons, etc. As well as being theoretically habitable to creatures we may, or may not have a hand in making extinct, such as Mamoths, and Sabertooth tigers.
The fact that we are at the top of the food chart at the moment doesn't mean that we have to be here.
Super-bombs for astroids, and drilling out preasure for volcanos sounds reasonable, however the fact remains that you still need to find a way to deploy that super-bomb, and get it to the astroid to push it out of it's path towards us. What exactly are you going to do with the preasure you 'drill' out of the volcano? Do you have a plan for it, or are you thinking you can just "release" it in a controlled manner? Kilauea's ben activly erupting since 1983. You can go and watch eruptions relatively safely. It's considered a mild form of a volcano. Mt. St. Helens has had activity overthe past year, and no-one is recomending you be anywhere near it when it erupts. Mt. St. Helens is a small volcano compared to the area considered to be the volcano at Yellowstone. Drilling either to "reduce the preasure" seems a bit unlikely to me.
As far as astroids are concerned, you want to start moving them out of an impact path as far away as possible. Launching a 'super bomb' from earth is a nice idea, but it would be better to have such devices off earth at the time they are needed. (Get them out of the gravitational hole where you have a really small launch window to get them on target.) This means you now have to contend with the activists who are going to fight against the launching of whatever type of 'super-bomb' you plan on putting into orbit. Have fun.
Then again, that's just me.
-Rusty
They didn't. The thought left them speachless, thus a tongue that is numb...
>>Use the administrative tools available to restrict the hours a professor may be logged in to match his or her published office hours, and enforce automatic logouts for extended (more than one hour) idle times.
>Sounds good. What happens if he wants to work from home though?
That's why they have admin access to their workstation at home. It is up to them to have a mechanism for taking their work home, or not.
Acutally the worst offenders of this would be the under and post grads who are doing the late night crunch time work. They however will either be using lab computers (if they even exist any more) or their own computers in their dorms or apartments.
>> When a workstation has been detected to be infected with a virus, or spyware, remotely set the gateway for that workstation to 127.0.0.1, disable the switch port the workstation is connected to, and set the dhcp record in the dhcp server specific to the mac address for the workstation to also set the gateway to 127.0.0.1 until the workstation has been cleaned.
>What happens when the virus/worm/what-have-you wants to infect machines on the local subnet. A gateway is not necessary to access machines on the same subnet.
This is why you admin down their network port. If you have full admin privleges to set the gateway to 127.0.0.1, you should be able to set the ip address for the user to 127.x.x.x, where x.x.x is the 24bit sequence number for the infection count. This should correlate back to a database record identifying exactly what virus was detected, or if there is some other incident in question, what happened. Note as well that an entire class A network is available under 127.x.x.x, none of the traffic directed to will ever appear on the wire.
Ok, I am ignoring the fact that there are bugs in the wild that will spoof the source address, and thus can send traffic that appears to be from a valid IP address. This is why you disable the network port on the hub or switch, and is the real reason you want to be able to manage the hubs and switches that are part of your network.
A lot of Cisco switches also allow you to lock a MAC address to ta specific port, and will automatically disable other ports if you plug an unauthorized nic into them. I can't speak for other switches, though I suspect Extream supports similar features.
>> Lastly set their network storage space to read only pending confirmation that that space does not contain any viri.
>Readonly? Why? so someone else can open an infected file? Maybe allow directory scans, but to allow readonly access means you have an inkling there may be a virus around. With that knowledge, you should take all precautions. That would include blocking read access as well.
Actually I was considering non-shared network storage. Storage space made available to the end user to use for backups. Since you have already locked out the user, making the space read only means that the user may be able to collect documents via a laptop, or other device, and yes this does allow for the prospect of an infected file being brought back down, but if the prof wants to take his Ph.D. disertation home and work on it, and perhaps deal with the prospect of having an infected file that he has to work with, I gaurantee he is going to scream a lot less if he can get at it read only, than if it is completely unavailable.
Now I grant you Doctoral candidates in the computer field are generally real geeks. The head of the department at my alma matter safegaurded his own thesis by giving copies to all his friends. I understand he needed to make to copies.
-Rusty
remotely manage their machines, using any of a number of tools.
Restrict logons to one instance.
Use the administrative tools available to restrict the hours a professor may be logged in to match his or her published office hours, and enforce automatic logouts for extended (more than one hour) idle times.
When a workstation has been detected to be infected with a virus, or spyware, remotely set the gateway for that workstation to 127.0.0.1, disable the switch port the workstation is connected to, and set the dhcp record in the dhcp server specific to the mac address for the workstation to also set the gateway to 127.0.0.1 until the workstation has been cleaned.
Feel free to advise the professors involved that you will get to them as soon as you have handled the network issues for the university president, and his or her immediate staff, as well as the people who are paying you.
Lastly set their network storage space to read only pending confirmation that that space does not contain any viri.
Should be simple enough to go take a look at the BOFH journals and improvise from there.
-Rusty
I seem to recall a quip in one of the books on silly valley where a programer criticised the 'draw a circle' function in BASIC, for being poorly written in front of Bill Gates. Turns out it was Bill who wrote the function. (unbeknownst to the developer doing the criticising at the time)
Arguably Bill did more for personal computers than most anyone else out there. I would have to point out however that most of what he has done is related to his business ability rather than his software writing abilities.
-Rusty
Actually, he showed up in "A Call To Arms." Which was one of the made for TV movies, and has been noted elsewhere was the segway between the B5 series, and the Crusade series. (As did the young lady portraying a thief. Wouldn't be surprised if she shows up as well.)
Other Technomages did show up in the series before the shadow war broke in earnest. They were on their way to a place of privacy. The intent being to prevent their knowledge from being used in battle.
-Rusty
Not sure if this will help, but Cringly mentioned a tri-band card for the sl-6000 from sharp that supported wifi and at least one cell phone archetecture for data connectivity in http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930. html
I did not find any information on the links page for that article that identified what card that is.
The SL-6000 supports both a CF slot as well as a MMC/SD slot. However to the best of my knowledge the MMC/SD slot does not support a communications archetecture, so I presume the tri-band card indicated is a CF card. I have not had any luck searching for a 'tri-mode CF 802.11' card however, so unless he is using a card that is no longer available (very possible) he may be switching between wifi and tri-mode (gsm/gprs) cards as needed.
Good luck.
-Rusty
I think that the issue is that the site is not slashdoted, so /. readers are either hung up on actually reading TFA, or are in shock that they can't complain that TFA has been slashdoted.
/. readers need to experience the /. effect so that they have something to really complain about?
Silly MSN admins, don't they understand that
Mice were so much of a problem, eating cables, leaving a mess on the table, etc, that I switched all of mine out for trackballs and tablets.
Not entirely correct. In several states, if you are hourly, and are paid more than some arbitrarily selcected rate, say $25 per hour, you do not get 'overtime' in the sense of time and a half for every hour over whatever period is in consideration, (8 per day, 40 per week.)
A significant fraction of games developers are earning more than this rate, so while they may get paid for the hours they work, they don't get 'overtime'.
A possibility is that EA is going to internally classify these jobs as eligable for 'Overtime' rates, of 1.5 times hourly rate per 'overtime' hour. The question then will be where they set the starting point for overtime hours. If they are exempt from state regulations relating to when overtime begins because of the pay rate, they could set the start at 12 hours per day, or 60 hours per week, and discourage developers from exceeding these limits.
-Rusty
Let me see if I have this straight. The grandparent of this missive specifies that an electric car that gets someone to work and back would be a very feasable Second car, without specifying what the first car would be. And here you are complaining about how no one would want to take a long trip where they would have to stop every 200 miles and wait for ten hours to charge before continuing?
/. poster after all, but if you don't try, it obviously never will work.) and about 1:15 in the afternoon I'm ready to take off again. Get to the Motel at 5:15 pm, and it's time for both my car to get it's recharge, and me to grab another bite to eat.
What do you think that first car is supposed to be for? Looks? That's the car you take long trips with. It's the one with the 12 gallon tank and 35 mpg (or 35 gallon tank and 12 mpg if it's a SUV) giving you a 420 mile range, and a 10 -20 min refill stop.
Additionally if as the original article states, it takes only 1 hour to recharge, after a 200 mile drive, well, lets see. 200 miles averaging 50 miles per hour, gets me a four hour drive. (I like to take a break every couple of hours to stretch my legs, let the dogs get some relief, etc. Your experience may vary) If I took off at 8 am, that gets me to about noon. Hey lunch time. An hour break? Sure that's workable for me. The car gets filled up at the same time I do, I get a few more minutes to stretch my legs, and see if I can hook up with the babe behind the counter (Probably won't work, I am a
To further agrivate you, I work about 10 miles from work. If I can get 200 miles on a charge, that's 10 days of driving between re-charges. Which is about how often I have to look at refilling my current car. If I add in an aditional 5 miles each way per day for food, trips to the gym, movies, etc. we get down to needing to recharge once a week. Again I don't think there are too many people who would complain about that.
I also see quite a few people complaining about the replacing the batteries every N years, and that being exceptionally expensive. The question becomes is N greater than, or less than R, the number of years a car owner will take to replace that car anyway? I seem to recall that the average new car buyer replaces his or her car every 2 years. Used car owners may replace their car less frequently, but I presume that they will own a car for less than 5 years before replacing it with another used car. If N is more than 2, it does not impact the average new car buyer. If N is more than 7, then the average used car buyer (presuming he or she is buying one of those 2 year old used cars) is going to dump the car at about the time the batteries are ready to die anyway.
My suspicion is that at the moment N is about 2-3 years. Not so bad for the new car buyer for use, but not so great for the resale value of the car. I base this estimate on experience with UPS batteries which tend to last between 2 and 3 years. At the same time I have seen car batteries last between 7 and 10 years. The drain/recharge cycle is vastly different for both of these types of batteries, compared to an electric car's ussage characteristics, but we kind of expected that as well.
Get N to be over 10 years for a complete replacement, or N sub n (replacement of individually identified failed cells) to be greater than 2, and you are looking at maintenance costs not all that different from ongoing maintenance on standard petrol cars.
What are the primary concerns I personally would have? I live in MN. Unless someone advises me that they have come up with a workable heating system for an electic car, I would probably spend most of my drive time during the winter bundled up in more winter clothing than I would generally like.
-Rusty
This still does not eliminate the obvious falicy of the argument to begin with.
The use of RFID in any capacity for surgury is a cruch that is not necessary.
ID the paitent? How about doing a hand geometry check to see if the paitent on the table is the right one for the charts that have been brought up?
Tools count? (I.E. don't leave surgical tools in the paitent you did surgury on) As the grandparent of this missive points out, it might be a good idea to take a count of how many tools have been brought to the paitent, and make sure that many tools left the paitent (except for those elements that are expected to be installed, such as replacement hips.)
For that matter pretty much every situation where you can envision using RFID tags, there exists alternatives.
The one thing that I can think of that an RFID tag may provide fundamentally better result than the existing alternatives is in counter-shoplifting. As it is, not a day goes by when people walk past the panels at the door of their store, and some tag that didn't get erased at the checkout counter doesn't trip the system. Likewise I have personally purchased products at one store, successfully passed their system, only to walk into the store next door, tripping theirs.
A system that asks for all the rfid numbers, and checks to see if they are in the sold catagory would tend to reduce the number of false hits. Likewise if it isn't in the inventory to begin with, you wouldn't trip an alarm either.
While that does give a positive use of the technology to the very same retailers who are doing their best to take advantage of it, I am not sure that it passes the cost/savings benifit for just that, and I know it sets up a prime example of the very same arguments that people specifically hate aboute retailers using this technology, in that Every time you walk in or out of the doors of that retailer, the possibility exists for them to track you, track your interests, and collect marketable information tied directly to you that may be sold or even used internally in ways you don't want it to be used (Bill always selects Lavoris over Scope, He's walking down the mouthwash line, send a signal to the Lavoris display to bump the price up 5 cents.) and in other ways that neither you, nor I can predict today.
Granted that's my opinion, and I accept that I can be wrong.
-Rusty
Unless the people working on getting these crt's flat are also improving their power draw so that they draw less than an LCD, I personally am not interested.
That's right. Forward all of those offers to Melinda.
As I understand it, and I am not an Archaeologist by training, the usual method for 'carbon dating' tools is to track the apparent layer for a firepit approximating the same layers as the tools were found in.
Most 'digs' are done at locations where every so often a 'layer' is added covering already existing layers. Examples being cave openings where material from further up the cave is washed over the existing layers in the cave, and stream juncturs where annual spring flooding adds layers of silt to the area.
One of the complaints in some areas is that fire pits (the remaining charcole is generally a good carbon dating source as it is organic carbon, and primarily what is left is carbon) may be contaminated with naturally occuring coal in the area. West Virginia sites are occasionally accused of being affected. The idea being that if you are not certain that the charcoal in question is not the remains of coal being burned, your sample age goes from 13-15,000 years to hundreds of thousands of years with little trouble. (Except to the archaeologist trying to date the percieved tools in the area.)
Hope this helps.
-Rusty