Hmm, the last company I worked at had a halon system in the data storage/backup room for fire protection. This was in Florida about 2 years ago. Obviously no federal law outlawing it in the US.
IANAL, but it may be illegal to install new Halon systems. There may be a grandfather clause for existing Halon systems.
Plus (IIRC) Halon isn't actually lethal, dispite what you read in BOFH, it merely makes you dizzy and light-headed - which still isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it might help partially incapicate the thieves until they are apprehended (at which point the adrenaline may kick in, partially counter-acting the effects of the Halon.
No, you can't shoot him in the head with a shotgun. The momentary feeling of satisfaction is followed by a serious downside. Of course you can't. Why would you want to anyway? That's so easily tracible. What you do is put them in dummy mode, and then have them check the voltage on their power outlet using a pair of paper clips (among many other means of removing security risks against the system. What's that, you ask? You might get arrested for this too? Of course not, it's a matter of national security! If users can be permitted to let viruses and spyware run on their systems, possibly turning the entire company network into a massive botnet, then the terrorists have run. Thus, logically, the biggest hazard and network security risk must be removed - the (l)users.
The big problem, though, is when the damage done by a deletion sweep is too great to be easily repaired. For instance, with the Great Podcast Purge, a lot of podcasts with legitmate notability were removed, such as Geek Fu Action Grip, Scott Seigler's EarthCore podeo-novel, and Gaming Uncensored (which, from what I understand, was one of the first video-game related podcasts). The latter deletion being of particular annoyance to me, as one of the hosts (Jamie Jordan) has a particular physical disability, which I forgot the name of - however, I'd forgotten the name of the disability, and that information is not on Jamie's web page, nor is it on the podcast page, and, well, I can't check the Wikipedia article because it got deleated. Even the web pages for This Week In Tech were facing deleation (sp).
In short, it's not a matter of just notablility deletions that are annoying me, as it is form of executing them in Great Purges, like what Howard Taylor is complaining about. Great Purges maximize the amount of damage over a short period, making it longer, more tedious, and more difficult to repair the damge caused, and to remake deleted pages. Furthermore, such deletions often occur under the radar, with little notice given unless you are browsing the specific pages facing deletion, making it very easy for a Great Purge to occur without any warning.
This is pretty straightforward to fix too. All that needs to be done to the wiki archetecture, is a list of catagories which had a high number of deletion requests made, placed on the front page. If, say, 15-30 requests for deletion are made for articles about, say, Arena Football teams, it would show up on wikipedia's front page, so readers have enough warning to say that they do find this notable, and state they want the article to be kept, rather then the request going unnoticed until it was too late.
And until this gets fixed, then I really don't feel comfortable giving my money to support a system that would permit users to wipe out a vast swath of entries on a topic which doesn't interest them, without a way to alert users of the pending deletions. Once that's fixed, I'll certainly give Wikipedia some of my money - but not before.
Geography, from what I understand, more than anything else. Mike, Bill, and Kevin are, IIRC, in the Minnappolis (sp) area. The Cinematic Titanic crew is in the Los Angeles area. Finally, from what I understand, Jim Fallon is not, IIRC, on the best of terms terms with Mike, Bill and Kevin after he sued them to kill their Film Crew project in, IIRC, 2002.
Well, the solo ones, like Fifth Element, I have to say aren't nearly as good with Mike and someone else (when Mike's going solo, the only person he has to play off with is Disembaudio, which doesn't work nearly as well.) But, anyway, Rifftrax is one of those things that shows how much of your friend Netflix (or GreenCine or whatever service along those lines you prefer) is.
From what I understand, that was Jim Fallon, owner of Best Brains (which holds the rights to MST3K) who filed the suit, not any of the actual actors or writers of the show - in fact, Fallon filed suit against Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (The Mike & The Bots of the Sci-Fi channel seasons of MST3K) over their Film Crew series of DVD releases, which, while similar to MST3K in concept (characters were assigned films to comment upon by a 3rd party, generally very bad films that were in the public domain), the execution was different (the characters were hired to record audio commentaries, and there was no shadowrama to speak of).
By the way, I found I liked Mike more then Joel, in general, though I prefered Dr. Clayton Forrester to Pearl Forrester (nothing against Mary Jo, the Sci-Fi seasons were still funny, but they were a different kind of funny than the seasons in Deep 13).
I don't burn the letters with the plastic windows in the BBQ. And, to be honest, I haven't disposed of any sensative letters in the BBQ, as I've got a fireplace. However, not everyone has a real fireplace (as opposed to an electric "fireplace" or a gas fireplace), so I figured I'd put forward an alternative.
Anyway, if I was using sensative correspondance for my BBQ, for cooking purposes, I'd use it as ignition material for a chimmney starter, rather then the sole combustible material for the actual cooking. That's what charcoal is for.
Unfortunatly, Apple's apparently company line (based on what I've heard from Apple sales reps) is that you don't need any "3rd party security software". Specifically, I overheard a salesperson speaking to a customer who was buying a notebook computer for his daughter (who was going to college), saying that the customer didn't need to purchase any of that kind of software, because OS X had no security holes. I did restrain myself from taking the salesperson to task for this in front of the whole store - but only because I didn't want to get kicked out of the store - as I hadn't completed my purchase yet. If I'd already gotten my iPod, I would have, as least, brought this to the manager's attention. As it is, it'd been a long day, and I wanted to get my iPod and go, so didn't make a deal about it.
In retrospect, I should have made a bit of a fuss about it, and were the situation to happen today, especialy with what I learned from TFA, I would certainly have called the salesperson on this (albeit after I'd gotten my iPod - I'd rather not get kicked out of the store before I made my purchase).
Well, if you shred and burn, the little bits that end up blowing to the four winds will end up being of no use to anyone, because the little bits will be mostly decipherable - any bits that remain legible should be no where near any of the bits of paper that were next to it in the original document - unless you packed the paper too tight of course.
Fireplaces and BBQs are your friend (depending on the paper being used, credit card applications can make for an okay firestarter for your grill - and they always make excellent kindling.):-)
Except for the fact that the little 320 x 240 pic is 512MB... As a possibility, rather then attaching one file to 1 picture, instead you take one file, divide it into small, reasonably sized chunks, and embedding them in, say, your vacation photos. It's one thing if your JPEG is several megs too big, but another if multiple JPEGs are a few KBs too big.
And are just as effective against armored vehicles. Rommell, for instance, made great use of anti-aircraft guns against Allied armor in the North African front. He still lost, but that's another matter.
However the Roomba + (Google) search idea is *fascinating*. Shove an RFID into/onto everything (car keys, books, CDs, clothes, paper, *everything*), have a mobile scanning device, and you need never misplace anything again.
Provided that the "indexing" information is only in your local system, and encrypted (for privacy purposes), then this would be a pretty useful idea, and would have potential for just as useful uses then "Where are my keys."
I don't really recall any shredding Guitar Solos in most of those songs, except for maybe "I Wanna Rock". Now, if "Take It On The Run" by REO Speedwagon was on the list, I'd so be there.
About time somebody got that idiot to quiet down. Wonder if he can sit on his hands like a good boy or if he's just going to harass somebody else in the meantime. I'm not holding my breath. Well, judging from his public statments after the Virginia Tech shootings, I'd say he's simply shifting his aim to, Counterstrike and other first-person shooters.
Out of curiosity, has he gone after any light-gun games yet?
Aside from the Legend of Zelda theme and the Super Mario Brothers theme, are there any Nintendo Franchises with theme songs conductive to being played on an electric guitar.
Keep in mind, this was my first play through, and I was trying to go through without using a walkthrough. Consequently, I did not have any of the Ultima Weapons. None at all. (Well, okay, I found Aerith's, but that doesn't precisely help me).
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IANAL, but it may be illegal to install new Halon systems. There may be a grandfather clause for existing Halon systems.
Plus (IIRC) Halon isn't actually lethal, dispite what you read in BOFH, it merely makes you dizzy and light-headed - which still isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it might help partially incapicate the thieves until they are apprehended (at which point the adrenaline may kick in, partially counter-acting the effects of the Halon.
Well, someone was physically assaulted this time (according to TFA), so hopefully this will up the priority with the Chicago PD.
You mean Anya, right?
The big problem, though, is when the damage done by a deletion sweep is too great to be easily repaired. For instance, with the Great Podcast Purge, a lot of podcasts with legitmate notability were removed, such as Geek Fu Action Grip, Scott Seigler's EarthCore podeo-novel, and Gaming Uncensored (which, from what I understand, was one of the first video-game related podcasts). The latter deletion being of particular annoyance to me, as one of the hosts (Jamie Jordan) has a particular physical disability, which I forgot the name of - however, I'd forgotten the name of the disability, and that information is not on Jamie's web page, nor is it on the podcast page, and, well, I can't check the Wikipedia article because it got deleated. Even the web pages for This Week In Tech were facing deleation (sp).
In short, it's not a matter of just notablility deletions that are annoying me, as it is form of executing them in Great Purges, like what Howard Taylor is complaining about. Great Purges maximize the amount of damage over a short period, making it longer, more tedious, and more difficult to repair the damge caused, and to remake deleted pages. Furthermore, such deletions often occur under the radar, with little notice given unless you are browsing the specific pages facing deletion, making it very easy for a Great Purge to occur without any warning.
This is pretty straightforward to fix too. All that needs to be done to the wiki archetecture, is a list of catagories which had a high number of deletion requests made, placed on the front page. If, say, 15-30 requests for deletion are made for articles about, say, Arena Football teams, it would show up on wikipedia's front page, so readers have enough warning to say that they do find this notable, and state they want the article to be kept, rather then the request going unnoticed until it was too late.
And until this gets fixed, then I really don't feel comfortable giving my money to support a system that would permit users to wipe out a vast swath of entries on a topic which doesn't interest them, without a way to alert users of the pending deletions. Once that's fixed, I'll certainly give Wikipedia some of my money - but not before.
Geography, from what I understand, more than anything else. Mike, Bill, and Kevin are, IIRC, in the Minnappolis (sp) area. The Cinematic Titanic crew is in the Los Angeles area. Finally, from what I understand, Jim Fallon is not, IIRC, on the best of terms terms with Mike, Bill and Kevin after he sued them to kill their Film Crew project in, IIRC, 2002.
Well, the solo ones, like Fifth Element, I have to say aren't nearly as good with Mike and someone else (when Mike's going solo, the only person he has to play off with is Disembaudio, which doesn't work nearly as well.) But, anyway, Rifftrax is one of those things that shows how much of your friend Netflix (or GreenCine or whatever service along those lines you prefer) is.
Again, Netflix. (Netflix even has some of the MST3K episodes from the boxed sets that are no longer available, due to rights reasons).
From what I understand, that was Jim Fallon, owner of Best Brains (which holds the rights to MST3K) who filed the suit, not any of the actual actors or writers of the show - in fact, Fallon filed suit against Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (The Mike & The Bots of the Sci-Fi channel seasons of MST3K) over their Film Crew series of DVD releases, which, while similar to MST3K in concept (characters were assigned films to comment upon by a 3rd party, generally very bad films that were in the public domain), the execution was different (the characters were hired to record audio commentaries, and there was no shadowrama to speak of).
By the way, I found I liked Mike more then Joel, in general, though I prefered Dr. Clayton Forrester to Pearl Forrester (nothing against Mary Jo, the Sci-Fi seasons were still funny, but they were a different kind of funny than the seasons in Deep 13).
I don't burn the letters with the plastic windows in the BBQ. And, to be honest, I haven't disposed of any sensative letters in the BBQ, as I've got a fireplace. However, not everyone has a real fireplace (as opposed to an electric "fireplace" or a gas fireplace), so I figured I'd put forward an alternative.
Anyway, if I was using sensative correspondance for my BBQ, for cooking purposes, I'd use it as ignition material for a chimmney starter, rather then the sole combustible material for the actual cooking. That's what charcoal is for.
Unfortunatly, Apple's apparently company line (based on what I've heard from Apple sales reps) is that you don't need any "3rd party security software". Specifically, I overheard a salesperson speaking to a customer who was buying a notebook computer for his daughter (who was going to college), saying that the customer didn't need to purchase any of that kind of software, because OS X had no security holes. I did restrain myself from taking the salesperson to task for this in front of the whole store - but only because I didn't want to get kicked out of the store - as I hadn't completed my purchase yet. If I'd already gotten my iPod, I would have, as least, brought this to the manager's attention. As it is, it'd been a long day, and I wanted to get my iPod and go, so didn't make a deal about it.
In retrospect, I should have made a bit of a fuss about it, and were the situation to happen today, especialy with what I learned from TFA, I would certainly have called the salesperson on this (albeit after I'd gotten my iPod - I'd rather not get kicked out of the store before I made my purchase).
And it would also be really nice to have if you get in a wreck, for insurance purposes (i.e. "See, he really did merge into my car!")
Well, if you shred and burn, the little bits that end up blowing to the four winds will end up being of no use to anyone, because the little bits will be mostly decipherable - any bits that remain legible should be no where near any of the bits of paper that were next to it in the original document - unless you packed the paper too tight of course.
Fireplaces and BBQs are your friend (depending on the paper being used, credit card applications can make for an okay firestarter for your grill - and they always make excellent kindling.) :-)
Don't you mean, "Kiss my BIG hairy BLUE ass"?
And are just as effective against armored vehicles. Rommell, for instance, made great use of anti-aircraft guns against Allied armor in the North African front. He still lost, but that's another matter.
The name of the law firm in question is Dozier Internet Law. The link is to their web page. Enjoy!
Provided that the "indexing" information is only in your local system, and encrypted (for privacy purposes), then this would be a pretty useful idea, and would have potential for just as useful uses then "Where are my keys."
For example, "Where is the matching sock?"
Except, to give credit where credit is due, Vista Ultimate includes Full Volume encryption functionality as well.
Because it's the same link used in TFA.
Now, mind you, on rare occasions articles with links to Goatse have made it to the /. front page. But I'm pretty sure this isn't one of those cases.
I don't really recall any shredding Guitar Solos in most of those songs, except for maybe "I Wanna Rock". Now, if "Take It On The Run" by REO Speedwagon was on the list, I'd so be there.
Aside from the Legend of Zelda theme and the Super Mario Brothers theme, are there any Nintendo Franchises with theme songs conductive to being played on an electric guitar.
Keep in mind, this was my first play through, and I was trying to go through without using a walkthrough. Consequently, I did not have any of the Ultima Weapons. None at all. (Well, okay, I found Aerith's, but that doesn't precisely help me).