If all of our lights made a noise that was equal in volume to their brightness, we would probably find excuses to use a lot less of them and learn to develop our night vision.
There is a BIG difference between a judge ordering someone to disclose their facebook password to collect evidence and a school teacher or principal doing it.
Also, the person in question here is the plaintiff. The defense generally does have a lot of latitude when it comes to evidence collection. My only complaint here is that the plaintiff's sexual behavior outside of work should not be relevant or admissible, but it looks like from some of the statements that the defense is going to push to get that stuff admitted. The judge should put pretty strict criteria on what evidence may be collected and presented to the jury. We aren't really getting those details here, though.
Pretty much every tech. company, and a good many financial, travel, hospitality, law enforcement, and education employers, all use a similar system for security purposes. Good luck with that future career!
If you will live anywhere south of Virginia and east of Nevada, swap AT&T for Verizon in this description (all the way down to the finally "is usually slowest" comment). Even the prices are similar.
Use a VPN service. I've used a corporate VPN and one based out of India (to avoid U.S.-centric blocking issues) called SwitchVPN. While they both worked fine, this was a year ago. The best thing to do is look at the current VPN companies and see who is being blocked today and why. If several from one country are getting blocked, choose one based out of a different country that doesn't have close ties with that country. It changes all the time, but it doesn't turn on a dime. It seems like the blocking happens in fits and starts (a bunch blocked a couple months ago, a bunch of different ones blocked next month, etc.) One thing I've found is that corporate VPNs seem to almost never get blocked, so if you have access to one of those, it is a good backup.
Seriously, it isn't even like Java is a particularly good language/environment. Frankly, I would rather deal with architecture issues and multiple platforms and just use C/C++ than put up with Java's issues.
I know it's ridiculous, but my first thought when I read this was an image of over-inflated hospital patients ballooning into the sky and bursting into flames with cries of "oh, the humanity!"
I need to watch less TV.
I concur. Excellent author. Two excellent series (the Patricia Hutchins series and the Alex Benedict series), as well as several stand alone novels and short stories. I've never read one of his books I didn't enjoy.
I completely agree with you, but I don't think he (the 97 year-old guy) did this intentionally. I think he was just blurring a couple of technical problems together: The Apollo 13 return trajectory problem and the Apollo 14 LEM computer problem. The Apollo 14 LEM computer started to malfunction during Lunar descent and required emergency reprogramming, which required the help of some MIT folks. This is documented. I'm not sure any of those MIT folks were ever recognized, and I could easily see something like what he described happening: NASA decides to honor them for saving the landing, meets hippy type, changes mind about the publicity.
Who buys a computer without a warranty that covers it's expected usage period?...
Businesses. Companies that buy a lot of laptops don't like to send them out for a lot of warrantee repairs, especially for minor things (like replacing the keyboard, battery, or a hard drive. It is difficult and expensive. Why? For starters, most companies that care about security require removing or wiping the hard drive before the machine leaves the control of company personnel. If the hard drive can't be removed easily, or is some kind of custom thing that only works in this one model, that can be a real problem when you need to wipe it and the machine won't boot.
DirecTV already can (and occasionally does) do this with both their own and the TiVo-based DirecTV DVRs. I guess that would be prior art? Anyway, most of the time it seems like it is to prevent you from skipping a DirecTV ad, but I get the feeling they are mostly doing it to either field-test the technology or as a live demonstration of it for a potential customer.
Incidentally, while I believe they *can* prevent both fast forwarding and skipping, so far they have only blocked using "30 second skip", not fast forwarding through the commercial.
When I was that age, I found a bunch of "graphic novel" versions of various classics in my school library: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Dumas, etc. I devoured those books. It was my love of Verne and Wells that led to a lifetime of reading sci-fi. The ones I read, I believe, were the "Classics Illustrated" that were re-released by Pocket Books (this would've been in the mid-to-late 1970's). There is a web site for the originals, though: http://www.classicscentral.com/.
I've had plenty of terrible times trying to get things out of plastic clamshells. I've also had no trouble at all... when they don't press seal the entire circumference of the package. If they just use a couple press locks (maybe with a touch of adhesive or a staple), these packages aren't bad at all. Why they insist on hermetically sealing them, though, that is baffling to me.
This is really no surprise from the Cameron government, which acts like a puppet of oil and gas interests. First dismantling the UK Carbon Trust, and now openly pushing legislation like this. Deplorable all around.
As bad as Blair and Brown were, the UK managed to find someone worse in Cameron. Amazing.
*sigh* Correcting my previous post. I used less and greater than signs, which resulted in "an inexpensive quartz watch will be $500" being displayed when what I wrote was: An inexpensive quartz watch will be < $50 and an inexpensive automatic watch will be > $500.
Any watch that is sold as an "automatic" (not "quartz") is generally assumed to be a self-winding mechanical watch. There are a LOT more of them out there than you might think. They tend to be a bit more expensive (an inexpensive quartz watch will be $500), but there are a lot of choices out there. I'm partial to Breitling, myself.
We've had a terrible time finding "programmers" that could even pass simple coding tests. We'd be happy with someone who understood general coding principals that we could send to training for a few weeks, but finding even that has been a serious problem.
For the price, services like SnapFish are remarkably cost-effective. The paper and ink are archival rated (200 years), and I've found it less expensive than the cost of a decent printer and ink.
Seriously, this is the way to go. Anything else is going to require data migration (for compatibility and ease of access if nothing else) every 5-10 years or so.
Seriously, it's the one format that you know will keep. Go buy a decent HP inkjet printer, if you use their premium photo paper and ink they are independently rated for 200+ years of archival life. Seriously, no digital format is going to hold up to that kind of life expectancy.
I'm not saying you shouldn't keep them digitally, just realize that anyone "inheriting" your digital archive is a lot less interested in sorting through it than the physical copies you keep someplace safe.
Slashdot Mirror
If all of our lights made a noise that was equal in volume to their brightness, we would probably find excuses to use a lot less of them and learn to develop our night vision.
There is a BIG difference between a judge ordering someone to disclose their facebook password to collect evidence and a school teacher or principal doing it. Also, the person in question here is the plaintiff. The defense generally does have a lot of latitude when it comes to evidence collection. My only complaint here is that the plaintiff's sexual behavior outside of work should not be relevant or admissible, but it looks like from some of the statements that the defense is going to push to get that stuff admitted. The judge should put pretty strict criteria on what evidence may be collected and presented to the jury. We aren't really getting those details here, though.
Pretty much every tech. company, and a good many financial, travel, hospitality, law enforcement, and education employers, all use a similar system for security purposes. Good luck with that future career!
If you will live anywhere south of Virginia and east of Nevada, swap AT&T for Verizon in this description (all the way down to the finally "is usually slowest" comment). Even the prices are similar.
Use a VPN service. I've used a corporate VPN and one based out of India (to avoid U.S.-centric blocking issues) called SwitchVPN. While they both worked fine, this was a year ago. The best thing to do is look at the current VPN companies and see who is being blocked today and why. If several from one country are getting blocked, choose one based out of a different country that doesn't have close ties with that country. It changes all the time, but it doesn't turn on a dime. It seems like the blocking happens in fits and starts (a bunch blocked a couple months ago, a bunch of different ones blocked next month, etc.) One thing I've found is that corporate VPNs seem to almost never get blocked, so if you have access to one of those, it is a good backup.
Seriously, it isn't even like Java is a particularly good language/environment. Frankly, I would rather deal with architecture issues and multiple platforms and just use C/C++ than put up with Java's issues.
I know it's ridiculous, but my first thought when I read this was an image of over-inflated hospital patients ballooning into the sky and bursting into flames with cries of "oh, the humanity!" I need to watch less TV.
I think the subject says it all.
You know what would be better idea than patching Java? Uninstalling it.
I concur. Excellent author. Two excellent series (the Patricia Hutchins series and the Alex Benedict series), as well as several stand alone novels and short stories. I've never read one of his books I didn't enjoy.
I completely agree with you, but I don't think he (the 97 year-old guy) did this intentionally. I think he was just blurring a couple of technical problems together: The Apollo 13 return trajectory problem and the Apollo 14 LEM computer problem. The Apollo 14 LEM computer started to malfunction during Lunar descent and required emergency reprogramming, which required the help of some MIT folks. This is documented. I'm not sure any of those MIT folks were ever recognized, and I could easily see something like what he described happening: NASA decides to honor them for saving the landing, meets hippy type, changes mind about the publicity.
Who buys a computer without a warranty that covers it's expected usage period? ...
Businesses. Companies that buy a lot of laptops don't like to send them out for a lot of warrantee repairs, especially for minor things (like replacing the keyboard, battery, or a hard drive. It is difficult and expensive. Why? For starters, most companies that care about security require removing or wiping the hard drive before the machine leaves the control of company personnel. If the hard drive can't be removed easily, or is some kind of custom thing that only works in this one model, that can be a real problem when you need to wipe it and the machine won't boot.
DirecTV already can (and occasionally does) do this with both their own and the TiVo-based DirecTV DVRs. I guess that would be prior art? Anyway, most of the time it seems like it is to prevent you from skipping a DirecTV ad, but I get the feeling they are mostly doing it to either field-test the technology or as a live demonstration of it for a potential customer. Incidentally, while I believe they *can* prevent both fast forwarding and skipping, so far they have only blocked using "30 second skip", not fast forwarding through the commercial.
When I was that age, I found a bunch of "graphic novel" versions of various classics in my school library: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Dumas, etc. I devoured those books. It was my love of Verne and Wells that led to a lifetime of reading sci-fi. The ones I read, I believe, were the "Classics Illustrated" that were re-released by Pocket Books (this would've been in the mid-to-late 1970's). There is a web site for the originals, though: http://www.classicscentral.com/.
That website of his (which makes some pretty ridiculous claims) has a public comments section. Disqus is an option for sign-in.
HP filed this case a year ago. They made opening statements in the trial today.
I've had plenty of terrible times trying to get things out of plastic clamshells. I've also had no trouble at all... when they don't press seal the entire circumference of the package. If they just use a couple press locks (maybe with a touch of adhesive or a staple), these packages aren't bad at all. Why they insist on hermetically sealing them, though, that is baffling to me.
This is really no surprise from the Cameron government, which acts like a puppet of oil and gas interests. First dismantling the UK Carbon Trust, and now openly pushing legislation like this. Deplorable all around. As bad as Blair and Brown were, the UK managed to find someone worse in Cameron. Amazing.
*sigh* Correcting my previous post. I used less and greater than signs, which resulted in "an inexpensive quartz watch will be $500" being displayed when what I wrote was: An inexpensive quartz watch will be < $50 and an inexpensive automatic watch will be > $500.
Any watch that is sold as an "automatic" (not "quartz") is generally assumed to be a self-winding mechanical watch. There are a LOT more of them out there than you might think. They tend to be a bit more expensive (an inexpensive quartz watch will be $500), but there are a lot of choices out there. I'm partial to Breitling, myself.
We've had a terrible time finding "programmers" that could even pass simple coding tests. We'd be happy with someone who understood general coding principals that we could send to training for a few weeks, but finding even that has been a serious problem.
For the price, services like SnapFish are remarkably cost-effective. The paper and ink are archival rated (200 years), and I've found it less expensive than the cost of a decent printer and ink. Seriously, this is the way to go. Anything else is going to require data migration (for compatibility and ease of access if nothing else) every 5-10 years or so.
It already exists. It's called "Chiller". I know DirecTV carries it.
Seriously, it's the one format that you know will keep. Go buy a decent HP inkjet printer, if you use their premium photo paper and ink they are independently rated for 200+ years of archival life. Seriously, no digital format is going to hold up to that kind of life expectancy. I'm not saying you shouldn't keep them digitally, just realize that anyone "inheriting" your digital archive is a lot less interested in sorting through it than the physical copies you keep someplace safe.
Seriously AOL, are you that determined to drive every last customer away?