I used to work in the Oil-n-Gas business (petroleum, not Taco Bell) and that industry is grappling with the same question about well spotting -- the exact surface location of a well. Historically, they are identified via footage calls from a known location (e.g. 354' N, 287' E of SW corner of such-n-such) While the state agencies would love to have nice, precise lat-lon coords, the property owners often refuse access to the survey crews because an accurate survey may show that the property line is incorrect, and Farmer Smith never really owned the well, it's on Farmer Johnson's land. The real financial impact can be huge.
Yee freakin gads folks, this is like something out of a science fiction horror movie, big ass machines going around eating up trees? Well fuuuck, all we need is some slave labourers to be pushing it along rather then using gas and we'd have ourselves a nice dim bleak ass future.
I repeat.
fuck
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This was the engine sample game that everybody got when they arrived. You roll a ball and crush the flocking people, who start following a "prophet" when they get scared.
Starting on the port this evening -- gotta get this one!
Of course the nanotech folks are excited about this (as well they should be!) but could this property be built into a polymer? Rather than a single molecule pulling on an atom-scale silicon spring, how about a millimeter-scale string that can reduce its length? Can light-activated shrink-wrap be far behind?
The "they" in question isn't Sony, it's the folks who are trying to claim some kind of cracker breakthrough by running sniffers on a dreamcast. It's not news that an IP-capable machine with connectivity to a network can search for weakness in the network. These guys use a dreamcast so their non-news can get some attention.
That's like slamming Consumer Reports for finding saftey issues with cars Like Suzuki did with the Samurai? (where they simply pointed out that it was poorly designed) Or like Isuzu did with the Trooper? (where they pointed out the design flaw and a simple design change to improve it and still got sued)
A recent story about 802.11 described the weakness as "Someone walks into your office with a laptop and asks for a network drop." The point of the anology was that the scenario is absurd, but leaving unsecured WAP access points is equally absurd.
Silly me, I hadn't realized the uber-absurd case -- someone walks into your office with a game console and asks for a network drop.
Enigmatically enough, I first read this tagline as "Attack of the Democrats"
On the drive in, NPR had an interview with this guy (Yes, I listen to NPR in the car. Yes, I'm old.) and his remarks there made it clear that he thinks reverse-engineering software to find security holes should be criminal unless the person doing it is employed as a computer security professional.
I'd rate him above-average on the clue-o-meter (certainly as federal gov't employees go!) but he's not a friend to the hackers by any stretch.
I'll wait until the model that doesn't block the vision from one of my eyes. I'm kind of keen on that whole depth-perception thing.
Why not project onto the inside of a partially-reflective sunglasses lens? Seems like great technology, but it's hamstrung by a fairly simple interface issue.
No, I will not imagine a beowulf cluster of these things
So they were like a water company talking about how much water you COULD use if you left your faucets open and sprinklers on 24/7, rather than how much you actually ran. (And if everybody else did, too. And if the city left all the fire hydrants open...)
Sadly, it's worse. To take your analogy, it's as though a city measured how much water they actually used in June. Then when a new subdivision was plumbed in July, they did your method of calculating how much water COULD be used in that subdivision, and used those two numbers to calculate percentage growth for July. Then, even if no other construction was done that year, they multiplied the July growth "percentage" by 12 and called that the annual growth rate.
As an aside, I think my new.sig will be: "/. slashed off my Rod" -- Ungrounded Lightning
LightReading had a
very well-researched article about this earlier in the week. Here's a quote from the article, where a former employee explains the numbers:
Here's how it worked, according to the former WorldCom employee: WorldCom would hook up new customers with connections capable of handling, say, up to 1.5 Mbit/s of data, knowing that for most of the time the lines would only carry a fraction of this amount. WorldCom would then use the 1.5 Mbit/s figures, not the actual traffic figures, when citing Internet traffic growth statistics.
"There was massive connectivity growth, but UUNET's business wasn't growing as much, "says the former employee.
I'm not the original poster -- I was preparing to post the same advice when I found someone already had. My claim is that television is much more like an addiction than like something that people enjoy and appreciate. Watching television isn't living your life. At best it's setting aside your life for an hour or four every day. At worst, it's vicariously living someone else's idea of what your life should be. You (pi radians) think you're fighting against content control. Broadcast television television isn't uncontroled content today. The lines between "content" and "advertisement" are already blurred, and I don't just mean product placement, I mean program sponsors gaining editorial control over scripts. You're getting duped if you think you have the freedom to watch a show without ads. You're accepting a straw-man definition of "freedom" so you'll keep watching what they want.
Just walk away. Wait for the withdrawl to fade, and see if you miss it or not.
And for what it's worth, the quote generator at the bottom of the page had this to say when I viewed the parent: Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.
Then again, I'm already tempted to drink the diesel for the ethanol, so it's really a toss-up.
Folks, just remember this quote the next time you're trying to decide between speeding up to get in FRONT of the trucker, or slowing down to pull in BEHIND him. Or my new favorite third option, get off the interstate as quickly as possible.
If your local telco is Qwest communications (the baby bell formerly known as U S WEST) then you
are already opted-out, at least for now.
Quoting from their site at: http://www.qwest.com/cpni/
Qwest has withdrawn the plans it announced in the December, 2001 bill insert to share private customer account information among its different businesses. This information is referred to by federal statute as Customer Proprietary Network Information or CPNI. Qwest will not sell or disclose CPNI, except as required by law, to people authorized to offer or help customers get Qwest services, to prevent the unlawful use of services, or if the company sells that part of its business. No further action is required on your part. Thank you.
For what it's worth, I don't work for Qwest, I don't particularly like nor trust Qwest, but that URL was where they used to accept opt-out requests. I just found that notice today when I started to compose this posting.
Take a yellow or green LED and shine your handy-dandy green laser pointer ($150 @ thinkgeek, support your sponsors!) directly into the lens. You get a little over 1VDC output from the LED, but only a few milliamps of current. I learned this trick from
this page at the LED Museum. Theres a picture of this stunt there as well.
This story seems newsworthy because it's nifty new OLED properties, but it's not really news that you can get an LED to rectify some electrons out of a light source.
Indeed, I remember seeing a dateline/20/60minutes/whatever segment about this company, complete with a raking-over-the-coals with the company's founder, Dennis Dees. The reason I call it an apocyphal scam is that nobody has yet produced a victim. The TV segment talked about how easy it would be to be tricked, but they didn't dig up anyone who HAD been tricked. The Houston Chronicle reporter placed a few test calls, and claims to have been scammed, but he was TRYING to get scammed. Even the BBB of Ft Worth (which had opened an investigation as of this article, 1996) admitted that they had not received any complaints.
I used to work for one of the baby bells, and at one point I pulled up the valid PIC code listing
for my home phone number. There was a HUGE number of legal LD carriers, but no "Whatever" "ItDoesntMatter" or the other apocryphal scam names. The closest thing to criminal was one company named "The Phone Company" although after talking to a few of the service reps, each and every one of them said that they wouldn't assume the customer was asking for that one by name. They'd likely do the same if someone registered "IDontCare"
And before someone from The Phone Company sues me, let me just state that I can only assume their rates are reasonable, their customer service is exemplary and their ethics are beyond compare. Really Honest.
I couldn't agree more. My question is how many years passed before it became clear that BBEdit was here to stay? I'm not a writer, and the years that I was a Mac user (Powerbook 540, if that gives you an idea of timeline) I was a UI designer. At the time, BBEdit still seemed like your typical shareware package -- seems to work ok, but the author may graduate one of these days and the support would vanish. That's what I was after by limiting it to "Viable" word processors.
... I'll have to tell my boss the truth- I DON'T WANT TO CHECK EMAIL ON WEEKENDS. IT'S MY TIME, LEAVE ME ALONE!
The sooner you say that to your boss, the happier you will be. Either she'll respect you for drawing the line and you'll get along swimmingly thereafter, or she'll fire you on the spot, and you'll be done working for a slave-driver. Either way, you win.
Even the engines are located in each of the 4 wheels Which is dandy until you actually take it off the showroom floor an onto the road. Where I live, there are holes in the road from time to time. There's debris in the road. Sometimes, I get a flat. Sometimes, they cut the top few inches off for resurfacing, which gives you a nice noisy ride for a time (what my kids call the "Groovy Pavement") followed by a 2 - 3 inch bump. I've even managed to bend a rim when an accident-avoidance maneuver took me into a curb (rather than the side of another vehicle) which set me back $200 for the rim and re-alignment, but it didn't take out 25% of my motor.
Take a clue from God -- the vital organs go in the core, surrounded by bone. You don't put them on the periphery!
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I used to work in the Oil-n-Gas business (petroleum, not Taco Bell) and that industry is grappling with the same question about well spotting -- the exact surface location of a well. Historically, they are identified via footage calls from a known location (e.g. 354' N, 287' E of SW corner of such-n-such)
While the state agencies would love to have nice, precise lat-lon coords, the property owners often refuse access to the survey crews because an accurate survey may show that the property line is incorrect, and Farmer Smith never really owned the well, it's on Farmer Johnson's land.
The real financial impact can be huge.
LMAO -- Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a WINNER. Top prize for the best comment-content-to-sig mismatch of the year!
Can't wait to see your portfolio, Sport!
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Angry God Bowling
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This was the engine sample game that everybody got when they arrived. You roll a ball and crush the flocking people, who start following a "prophet" when they get scared.
Starting on the port this evening -- gotta get this one!
Of course the nanotech folks are excited about this (as well they should be!) but could this property be built into a polymer? Rather than a single molecule pulling on an atom-scale silicon spring, how about a millimeter-scale string that can reduce its length?
Can light-activated shrink-wrap be far behind?
The "they" in question isn't Sony, it's the folks who are trying to claim some kind of cracker breakthrough by running sniffers on a dreamcast.
It's not news that an IP-capable machine with connectivity to a network can search for weakness in the network. These guys use a dreamcast so their non-news can get some attention.
That's like slamming Consumer Reports for finding saftey issues with cars
Like Suzuki did with the Samurai? (where they simply pointed out that it was poorly designed)
Or like Isuzu did with the Trooper? (where they pointed out the design flaw and a simple design change to improve it and still got sued)
Why dreamcast? So they can get free press on /. of course.
A recent story about 802.11 described the weakness as "Someone walks into your office with a laptop and asks for a network drop." The point of the anology was that the scenario is absurd, but leaving unsecured WAP access points is equally absurd.
Silly me, I hadn't realized the uber-absurd case -- someone walks into your office with a game console and asks for a network drop.
Enigmatically enough, I first read this tagline as "Attack of the Democrats"
On the drive in, NPR had an interview with this guy (Yes, I listen to NPR in the car. Yes, I'm old.) and his remarks there made it clear that he thinks reverse-engineering software to find security holes should be criminal unless the person doing it is employed as a computer security professional.
I'd rate him above-average on the clue-o-meter (certainly as federal gov't employees go!) but he's not a friend to the hackers by any stretch.
Or simply put in a toolshed with a fiberglass roof instead of a steel one. Would local zoning prohibit a 9' - 12' square toolshed too?
That last line should read:
Here's a description of the nutcase's plan
Over the past ten years, what has been the most personally rewarding part of your work?
I'll wait until the model that doesn't block the vision from one of my eyes. I'm kind of keen on that whole depth-perception thing.
Why not project onto the inside of a partially-reflective sunglasses lens?
Seems like great technology, but it's hamstrung by a fairly simple interface issue.
No, I will not imagine a beowulf cluster of these things
Do they make Mutant Clone Coffee to devastate the Super Coffee made by the Killer Bees?
No, I will not imagine a beowolf cluster of these.
So they were like a water company talking about how much water you COULD use if you left your faucets open and sprinklers on 24/7, rather than how much you actually ran. (And if everybody else did, too. And if the city left all the fire hydrants open...)
.sig will be:
Sadly, it's worse. To take your analogy, it's as though a city measured how much water they actually used in June. Then when a new subdivision was plumbed in July, they did your method of calculating how much water COULD be used in that subdivision, and used those two numbers to calculate percentage growth for July.
Then, even if no other construction was done that year, they multiplied the July growth "percentage" by 12 and called that the annual growth rate.
As an aside, I think my new
"/. slashed off my Rod" -- Ungrounded Lightning
I'm not the original poster -- I was preparing to post the same advice when I found someone already had.
My claim is that television is much more like an addiction than like something that people enjoy and appreciate. Watching television isn't living your life. At best it's setting aside your life for an hour or four every day. At worst, it's vicariously living someone else's idea of what your life should be.
You (pi radians) think you're fighting against content control. Broadcast television television isn't uncontroled content today. The lines between "content" and "advertisement" are already blurred, and I don't just mean product placement, I mean program sponsors gaining editorial control over scripts.
You're getting duped if you think you have the freedom to watch a show without ads. You're accepting a straw-man definition of "freedom" so you'll keep watching what they want.
Just walk away. Wait for the withdrawl to fade, and see if you miss it or not.
And for what it's worth, the quote generator at the bottom of the page had this to say when I viewed the parent:
Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand.
Folks, just remember this quote the next time you're trying to decide between speeding up to get in FRONT of the trucker, or slowing down to pull in BEHIND him.
Or my new favorite third option, get off the interstate as quickly as possible.
Take a yellow or green LED and shine your handy-dandy green laser pointer ($150 @ thinkgeek, support your sponsors!) directly into the lens. You get a little over 1VDC output from the LED, but only a few milliamps of current.
I learned this trick from this page at the LED Museum. Theres a picture of this stunt there as well.
This story seems newsworthy because it's nifty new OLED properties, but it's not really news that you can get an LED to rectify some electrons out of a light source.
Indeed, I remember seeing a dateline/20/60minutes/whatever segment about this company, complete with a raking-over-the-coals with the company's founder, Dennis Dees.
The reason I call it an apocyphal scam is that nobody has yet produced a victim. The TV segment talked about how easy it would be to be tricked, but they didn't dig up anyone who HAD been tricked. The Houston Chronicle reporter placed a few test calls, and claims to have been scammed, but he was TRYING to get scammed. Even the BBB of Ft Worth (which had opened an investigation as of this article, 1996) admitted that they had not received any complaints.
Sure, it's cheesy, but it's no Worldcom
I used to work for one of the baby bells, and at one point I pulled up the valid PIC code listing for my home phone number. There was a HUGE number of legal LD carriers, but no "Whatever" "ItDoesntMatter" or the other apocryphal scam names. The closest thing to criminal was one company named "The Phone Company" although after talking to a few of the service reps, each and every one of them said that they wouldn't assume the customer was asking for that one by name. They'd likely do the same if someone registered "IDontCare"
And before someone from The Phone Company sues me, let me just state that I can only assume their rates are reasonable, their customer service is exemplary and their ethics are beyond compare.
Really
Honest.
I couldn't agree more. My question is how many years passed before it became clear that BBEdit was here to stay? I'm not a writer, and the years that I was a Mac user (Powerbook 540, if that gives you an idea of timeline) I was a UI designer. At the time, BBEdit still seemed like your typical shareware package -- seems to work ok, but the author may graduate one of these days and the support would vanish.
That's what I was after by limiting it to "Viable" word processors.
Even the engines are located in each of the 4 wheels
Which is dandy until you actually take it off the showroom floor an onto the road. Where I live, there are holes in the road from time to time. There's debris in the road. Sometimes, I get a flat. Sometimes, they cut the top few inches off for resurfacing, which gives you a nice noisy ride for a time (what my kids call the "Groovy Pavement") followed by a 2 - 3 inch bump.
I've even managed to bend a rim when an accident-avoidance maneuver took me into a curb (rather than the side of another vehicle) which set me back $200 for the rim and re-alignment, but it didn't take out 25% of my motor.
Take a clue from God -- the vital organs go in the core, surrounded by bone. You don't put them on the periphery!