In the post-weather calm, when people can get back in to search for survivors and review the damage, why not deploy mobile trucks that have generators. These units could deploy tethered weather balloons that hold aloft temporary cell sites.
Cell sites get knocked down and/or damaged in a weather event like this. Emergency Services deploys weather balloon toting trucks afterwards to provide extended cell/radio coverage, thus temporarily restoring communications for survivors.
Something to ponder: If you decide that USB is unacceptable, then you need to be very careful about your hardware selection. Particularly with a manufacturer like DELL, they are making fewer and fewer PC's with PS/2 ports for your keyboard and mouse. A large percentage are USB driven mice and keyboards. It's simply becoming cheaper to leave the PS/2 ports off and go with all USB connectivity.
Y'know, if someone pays $100M for a trip like that, you get 100 miles away from the moon..I'm thinkin' that for that sort of money, it ~ought~ to include a moonwalk. Or at ~least~ a spacewalk.
"Dude! I just got back from orbiting the moon...and I didn't even get a moon-rock. Crap."
When I read the quote, the first thing that came to mind was how effortlessly one could change the meaning of this ruling with the changing of the two words...
"One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to [cause harm]... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses."
Would that take us closer to making firearms and ammunition manufacturers liable for their products? Or knives, etc..?
To some degree, the vertical stack does have a bit more "safety" built into it, but only until we start being lax about it. Challenger was 100% preventable, if we'd been more alert to a couple of things reguarding safety. But, there was political pressure to launch, and political pressure to save money by shaving a little bit more of the protective lining down...
As for Columbia,..well, that was preventable too. The STS's used to go up with materials to repair tiles, and the necessary resources for a walk to look at that stuff. But, it too up space and weight, so they were pulled to make room for cargo. Thus, they became unneccessary safety items.
I'd be very curious to see how many successful uses of the escape tower there have been. I don't believe we actually had to use the escape tower during any manned space mission previously.
I don't want to sound like I'm dogging the CXV. It's new, it's different, it might be better! It's just not the STS system I grew up with, so like most change, it takes some of us 'old folks' to warm up to it.:-)
While I recognize that the STS has issues, most of which stem from politics, it's very important to note that anything that replaces the STS, be it the CXV or something else, won't really be any safer.
These are very, -very- large rockets, filled the "fuel" that's thousands of times more potent than TNT. We're trying to control an explosion to get us into space. Granted, we've done it very successfully a number of times. Look at all of the times we've had major failures and loss of life.
How many were done because we placed politics over safety, or simply became lax with safety? A new vehicle will be just the same. It'll be just as safe as the STS, until we place politics over safety or simply become lax, resting on our past success.
I'll miss the Shuttle program. It's expensive, and if we can get something cheaper that does the same thing, I'm good with that. It'll never really be the same for some of us, but it's like growing up: Sometimes you have to graduate from one thing to the next, because that's how life is.
I hope it works well, because I like to think that the US has 'The Right Stuff' when it comes to space. (Then again, I've always been a dreamer!)
While I don't play WoW, I've been looking at buying a used one. I figured that the key issue would come up, so I did a little research on the WoW website, and found an interesting little entry.
Sigma and MediaTek make chips to decode the Content Scramble System, or CSS, which is the copy-protection system used for DVDs. Their licenses require that they sell only to other CSS-licensed companies.
I'm curious...who holds these licenses in question? Or rather, who are the licenses granted from? The MPAA? The article isn't well written enough to tell.
If it's not the MPAA, then it's a silly lawsuit, since the companies haven't broken a contract with the MPAA, but rather with the license holder.
Can anyone fill in the gap? (Or am I just too dense to see the forest afore the trees?)
So, how long do you suppose it'll be before they go after RIAA and MPAA? Now, that's a fight I might enjoy seeing.:-) Maybe we'll see it on Pay Per View?!
I think the phone company would be silly trying to keep that sort of data hanging around. They're just wasting bits and bytes by hanging on to that Please get milk on your way home. messages, that will have no bearing on anything after then next two days. It sounds like a reason just to raise rates, so they can buy more drive space to store crap like that, don't you think?
As for the 0.00001% that they might need, sits, waiting, until there's a court order or Patriot Act event that allows the authorities to get into their 'wiretap' mode, which is effectively what a text message, via phones, is.
I've got DOS 6.22 filed around here somewhere. Not loading any drivers for the NIC is a very secure way to run that operating system. And depending on what hardware you're running, it runs pretty darn quick.;-)
So, how would you feel about this little tidbit of legislation, if it were only in effect for companies and corporations who had no (read: zero) outsourcing? All companies who have a portion of themselves contracted/outsourced to non-american companies are not eligable under such legislation.
If a university has spent the money to build a infrastructure that's worthwhile, and also have people to monitor it, why not save time and money for everyone and just have them use existing software to monitor what sort of traffic and activity is moving on their network? It's likely they have the software already, but simply don't have anyone checking it.
It seems simple to me. Reports indicate that there is Kazaa activity on Port 123, you turn off that LAN port. The user no longer has LAN access, and must call someone to get it fixed. At this point, they're reminded that P2P activity is prohibited by university policy. This is their first warning. The next time they're caught, they'll have their port shut down for a month, and the third offense will have their port turned off permanently.
If universities feel they have to play hardball in this area, doesn't this seem like a more logical, and wise way for them to do it, opposed to allowing someone else into their network, who has an agenda that doesn't match that of the university?
(And on a side note, many universities have grant money for doing military research. I'm certain that the DOD would not apprecaite the *AA having any sort of 'monitoring' going on of potentially sensitive research data that might be travelling on the university network.)
Hmm...with a relatively low boiling point (120.6F), you couldn't use it outdoors for fear that it might boil off on a hot summer day. But, I wonder if you could use it for an indoor pool? I wonder if it has the same bouancy properties as water...
Imagine coming in from a hot day, then just walk right into the pool, don't change clothes, cool off, walk out...poof, you drip dry and are once more comfortable!
You are correct, they do have a "self defense force" in Japan, but I suspect if we compare them to a simliar country's "military force" we'll find a good deal of things lacking for the Japanese force. Is that a bad thing? No, I don't think so. I would note that what Japan lacks in quantity for defenses, they are likely to excell when it comes to quality.
And more than that, as a source of technology for the world, they effecitively have other countries whose military forces can defend them, because heaven knows the US wouldn't want Japan to fall to Communism!;-)
And thus we start to come full circle again, the manufacturing costing the US more for it's lack of updated technology and effeciency. There is definitely advantage for Europe after their infrastructure was rebuilt after WWII.
Fewer and fewer things are fully manufactured in the US, more and more are being parted out to other countries where they can do it more cheaply, and quickly and effeciently. So, even if a US company came up with a cutting-edge robot, they'd have to outsource the building of it to make it something that could be sold in the US at a price that people would pay. (Even presuming they'd wait several years to make any ROI.)
Every country sets its own agenda. The US wants to be the untouchable goliath of military power. If the US wanted to be the world leader in non-military research and development, they could be.
Very, very true. But, it just wouldn't be The American Way if we didn't have the ability to police the world. However, if you pay close attention to the history of how the US became involved in various wars,[read: WWI, WWII] you'll see we re-acted to outside influences. Had those not come along, the US may never have invested so heavily in a war machine. (Just my $0.02.)
Something to consider about Japan and their rise in technology, is that since the end of WWII, they haven't had a military to take up financing, (or resources, or R&D, etc..) thus leaving the government, and the culture as a whole, to focus on something else...like business and technology.
Get ready for the Marketing Ghosts assaulting you on every street corner...
There's an upside to that: If you ignore them enough, they die off...unlike current marketing firms.
Well, perhaps this time around, we'll get it for free. However, how much will it cost us in the next versions lisence? Or when we renew corporate agreements? And support agreements? Oh, sure...it's just an extra $50/seat!
Well, radar bounces off of it pretty good, I'm told. So, you'd think it might well work. But, I don't think you have to get that excited with materials. Perhaps a test with a mylar balloon is in order?
Definitely interesting. However, you can go to your local hardware store and buy the materials to defeat/confuse RFID, and generally you'll spend less than $2 for it. (And no, it's not a roll of foil.)
I'd be curious to know just how close you can get to the HOV lane with those before FastTrak picks it up and debits your account for being in the lane, even if you're not actually in it.
Why not simply make the bag out of a material that simply dampens radio signals, opposed to sending out additional, confusing signals? It's a technique used to keep security sensors from detecting RFID security tags. And the substances that work are..reasonably commonplace.
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In the post-weather calm, when people can get back in to search for survivors and review the damage, why not deploy mobile trucks that have generators. These units could deploy tethered weather balloons that hold aloft temporary cell sites.
Cell sites get knocked down and/or damaged in a weather event like this. Emergency Services deploys weather balloon toting trucks afterwards to provide extended cell/radio coverage, thus temporarily restoring communications for survivors.
Or has this already been done?
Something to ponder: If you decide that USB is unacceptable, then you need to be very careful about your hardware selection. Particularly with a manufacturer like DELL, they are making fewer and fewer PC's with PS/2 ports for your keyboard and mouse. A large percentage are USB driven mice and keyboards. It's simply becoming cheaper to leave the PS/2 ports off and go with all USB connectivity.
Y'know, if someone pays $100M for a trip like that, you get 100 miles away from the moon..I'm thinkin' that for that sort of money, it ~ought~ to include a moonwalk. Or at ~least~ a spacewalk.
"Dude! I just got back from orbiting the moon...and I didn't even get a moon-rock. Crap."
When I read the quote, the first thing that came to mind was how effortlessly one could change the meaning of this ruling with the changing of the two words...
"One who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to [cause harm]... is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties using the device, regardless of the device's lawful uses."
Would that take us closer to making firearms and ammunition manufacturers liable for their products? Or knives, etc..?
To some degree, the vertical stack does have a bit more "safety" built into it, but only until we start being lax about it. Challenger was 100% preventable, if we'd been more alert to a couple of things reguarding safety. But, there was political pressure to launch, and political pressure to save money by shaving a little bit more of the protective lining down...
..well, that was preventable too. The STS's used to go up with materials to repair tiles, and the necessary resources for a walk to look at that stuff. But, it too up space and weight, so they were pulled to make room for cargo. Thus, they became unneccessary safety items.
:-)
As for Columbia,
I'd be very curious to see how many successful uses of the escape tower there have been. I don't believe we actually had to use the escape tower during any manned space mission previously.
I don't want to sound like I'm dogging the CXV. It's new, it's different, it might be better! It's just not the STS system I grew up with, so like most change, it takes some of us 'old folks' to warm up to it.
While I recognize that the STS has issues, most of which stem from politics, it's very important to note that anything that replaces the STS, be it the CXV or something else, won't really be any safer.
These are very, -very- large rockets, filled the "fuel" that's thousands of times more potent than TNT. We're trying to control an explosion to get us into space. Granted, we've done it very successfully a number of times. Look at all of the times we've had major failures and loss of life.
How many were done because we placed politics over safety, or simply became lax with safety? A new vehicle will be just the same. It'll be just as safe as the STS, until we place politics over safety or simply become lax, resting on our past success.
I'll miss the Shuttle program. It's expensive, and if we can get something cheaper that does the same thing, I'm good with that. It'll never really be the same for some of us, but it's like growing up: Sometimes you have to graduate from one thing to the next, because that's how life is.
I hope it works well, because I like to think that the US has 'The Right Stuff' when it comes to space. (Then again, I've always been a dreamer!)
While I don't play WoW, I've been looking at buying a used one. I figured that the key issue would come up, so I did a little research on the WoW website, and found an interesting little entry.
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http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowbilling/?id=
I'm not sure if it's useful, but hopefully it might spark some ideas.
Sigma and MediaTek make chips to decode the Content Scramble System, or CSS, which is the copy-protection system used for DVDs. Their licenses require that they sell only to other CSS-licensed companies.
I'm curious...who holds these licenses in question? Or rather, who are the licenses granted from? The MPAA? The article isn't well written enough to tell.
If it's not the MPAA, then it's a silly lawsuit, since the companies haven't broken a contract with the MPAA, but rather with the license holder.
Can anyone fill in the gap? (Or am I just too dense to see the forest afore the trees?)
So, how long do you suppose it'll be before they go after RIAA and MPAA? Now, that's a fight I might enjoy seeing. :-) Maybe we'll see it on Pay Per View?!
I think the phone company would be silly trying to keep that sort of data hanging around. They're just wasting bits and bytes by hanging on to that Please get milk on your way home. messages, that will have no bearing on anything after then next two days. It sounds like a reason just to raise rates, so they can buy more drive space to store crap like that, don't you think?
As for the 0.00001% that they might need, sits, waiting, until there's a court order or Patriot Act event that allows the authorities to get into their 'wiretap' mode, which is effectively what a text message, via phones, is.
I've got DOS 6.22 filed around here somewhere. Not loading any drivers for the NIC is a very secure way to run that operating system. And depending on what hardware you're running, it runs pretty darn quick. ;-)
So, how would you feel about this little tidbit of legislation, if it were only in effect for companies and corporations who had no (read: zero) outsourcing? All companies who have a portion of themselves contracted/outsourced to non-american companies are not eligable under such legislation.
Any thoughts?
If a university has spent the money to build a infrastructure that's worthwhile, and also have people to monitor it, why not save time and money for everyone and just have them use existing software to monitor what sort of traffic and activity is moving on their network? It's likely they have the software already, but simply don't have anyone checking it.
It seems simple to me. Reports indicate that there is Kazaa activity on Port 123, you turn off that LAN port. The user no longer has LAN access, and must call someone to get it fixed. At this point, they're reminded that P2P activity is prohibited by university policy. This is their first warning. The next time they're caught, they'll have their port shut down for a month, and the third offense will have their port turned off permanently.
If universities feel they have to play hardball in this area, doesn't this seem like a more logical, and wise way for them to do it, opposed to allowing someone else into their network, who has an agenda that doesn't match that of the university?
(And on a side note, many universities have grant money for doing military research. I'm certain that the DOD would not apprecaite the *AA having any sort of 'monitoring' going on of potentially sensitive research data that might be travelling on the university network.)
Hmm...with a relatively low boiling point (120.6F), you couldn't use it outdoors for fear that it might boil off on a hot summer day. But, I wonder if you could use it for an indoor pool? I wonder if it has the same bouancy properties as water...
Imagine coming in from a hot day, then just walk right into the pool, don't change clothes, cool off, walk out...poof, you drip dry and are once more comfortable!
Hmm...I should RTFMSDS, shouldn't I?
That just proves that sometimes using the sneaker-net is faster than getting the wire going.
You are correct, they do have a "self defense force" in Japan, but I suspect if we compare them to a simliar country's "military force" we'll find a good deal of things lacking for the Japanese force. Is that a bad thing? No, I don't think so. I would note that what Japan lacks in quantity for defenses, they are likely to excell when it comes to quality.
;-)
And more than that, as a source of technology for the world, they effecitively have other countries whose military forces can defend them, because heaven knows the US wouldn't want Japan to fall to Communism!
And thus we start to come full circle again, the manufacturing costing the US more for it's lack of updated technology and effeciency. There is definitely advantage for Europe after their infrastructure was rebuilt after WWII.
Fewer and fewer things are fully manufactured in the US, more and more are being parted out to other countries where they can do it more cheaply, and quickly and effeciently. So, even if a US company came up with a cutting-edge robot, they'd have to outsource the building of it to make it something that could be sold in the US at a price that people would pay. (Even presuming they'd wait several years to make any ROI.)
Every country sets its own agenda. The US wants to be the untouchable goliath of military power. If the US wanted to be the world leader in non-military research and development, they could be.
Very, very true. But, it just wouldn't be The American Way if we didn't have the ability to police the world. However, if you pay close attention to the history of how the US became involved in various wars,[read: WWI, WWII] you'll see we re-acted to outside influences. Had those not come along, the US may never have invested so heavily in a war machine. (Just my $0.02.)
Something to consider about Japan and their rise in technology, is that since the end of WWII, they haven't had a military to take up financing, (or resources, or R&D, etc..) thus leaving the government, and the culture as a whole, to focus on something else...like business and technology.
Get ready for the Marketing Ghosts assaulting you on every street corner... There's an upside to that: If you ignore them enough, they die off...unlike current marketing firms.
Well, perhaps this time around, we'll get it for free. However, how much will it cost us in the next versions lisence? Or when we renew corporate agreements? And support agreements? Oh, sure...it's just an extra $50/seat!
I can see the hand writing on the wall now.
Well, radar bounces off of it pretty good, I'm told. So, you'd think it might well work. But, I don't think you have to get that excited with materials. Perhaps a test with a mylar balloon is in order?
Definitely interesting. However, you can go to your local hardware store and buy the materials to defeat/confuse RFID, and generally you'll spend less than $2 for it. (And no, it's not a roll of foil.)
I'd be curious to know just how close you can get to the HOV lane with those before FastTrak picks it up and debits your account for being in the lane, even if you're not actually in it.
Why not simply make the bag out of a material that simply dampens radio signals, opposed to sending out additional, confusing signals? It's a technique used to keep security sensors from detecting RFID security tags. And the substances that work are ..reasonably commonplace.