All in all though, the idea that a bacteria would cause a incurable disease is at the extremly long end of near insane thoughts.
Apparently the AIDS virus never got that memo. Granted we're talking bacteria, but the idea is the same. It is entirely conceivable, therefore, that a alien bacteria could cause an incurable disease. If something cannot be PROVEN impossible, then it must be assumed to be possible, no matter how improbable.
Any foreign bacteria would not be adapted to our natural defences against diseases, let alone some of our more complex immune system responses.
Aren't you refering to the same defenses (natural defenses=immune system?) in both parts of that statement? If you turn the statement around you get, in effect, that our immune systems would not be adapted to the foreign bacteria. Seems to me thatthe argument works both ways.
T-Mobile used to have the Samsung r225m phone that was free with a new contract. It's quite a simple phone, with just about everything you are talking about. The antenna sticks about 3/4" and the phone book isn't the absolute greatest, but it's simple and gets the job done.
They don't have it anymore though, it's been replaced by the 225c. The big difference as far as I can tell so far (and I haven't looked hard at all) is that it has a color screen.
I got a BlackBerry 7100t, but keep my old Samsung 225m around as a spare, since transferring the SIM card is all it takes to move from one to the other.
OK, you got me there...I did actually RTFS, but got it stuck in my head that this program would sniff from outside in, since that what was done in the past.
And has been said before, "past returns are not a guarantee for future performance."
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your main point. It would seem to me that Best Buy, in fact, WANTS the intelligent customer who is looking for the best deal.
Why? Because this is the same customer who isn't going to return the purchase. The customer knows where the best deal is and gets it to save money and get satisfaction out of the purchase. It is the customer that is actively trying to work the system that is the one to avoid, and if I were a retailer, I'd avoid that customer too.
Store policy may be a restocking fee or restrictive return conditions, but discretion lets one bend the rules when one knows that they have a legitimate return in front of them. Selling a big-screen TV the week before the Super Bowl and seeing it returned the following week is a prime target for "store policy." Rebate goods being returned with no UPC symbols is a target of "store policy." Simple dissatisfaction with a product (with a possible willingness to try something else) can slip under the radar.
Apart from the fact that it is meaningless (any programmer knows that the printout doesn't have to match the vote that was recorded internally) there is a more fundamental problem.
That is why a paper printout must be mandatory. I read a story (wish I could remember where) that all the Spanish-language ballots in a particular eVote test were accidentally discarded by the machine, even though the screen indicated that they were recorded. A paper printout would serve as a backup for such instances where a software bug didn't properly count the vote.
By adding a printer, you're conceding that the electronic voting machine may not innately be able to provide complete confidence in the result.
Not only would I concede such a point, I would say it bluntly, and have done so to my government representatives and the local election board. "I don't trust electronic voting machines."
What's wrong with a pencil, a piece of paper, and a count process to which the candidates (and their lawyers) can be invited to ?
It doesn't satisfy our immediate desire to know the results of the election. It doesn't satisfy the "I want it and I want it NOW" mentality.
Other than that, there is nothing wrong with it. I fully support the use of paper ballots in any--ANY--election.
I have not provided a link deliberately. If you wish to read her article, you can find it, I'm sure by a Google search or off of Slashdot, since they made what I consider the unfortunate editorial decision to give the story more widespread readership than it otherwise would have received.
We've see this reaction before from a/. link, and I'm still confused. Isn't the whole point of publishing something on a website available to the public to get it read by said public? Don't you WANT people to read it? Furthermore, the aforementioned public that is going to add to the readership is the type of public that even has more than a passing interest in the story!
On the surface, this looks as crazy as the Washington Post printing a story then complaining when readers tell other people about it, and they go read it.
Somebody enlighten me please before my head caves in.
(Disclaimer--do thas at your own risk. If you burn something up, it's your own damn fault)
Or get yourself a Toyota Prius hybrid.
Here is what I did with mine: I bought a 700W inverter and wired it to the small 12V battery used to "start"* the car. I can then let the car "run"** indefinitely and it will supply my loads quite nicely.
The 270V system maintains the 12V battery charge and supplies the inverter through the hybrid electrical system. The system will automatically cycle the engine on and off to maintain the battery charge and keep the engine/exhaust system warm.
If you want something bigger, get yourself a big (and I mean BIG) UPS. APC I know makes really big ones, up to 15KW at least if I remember right. How well they work on inductive loads remains to be seen. I tried putting an air conditioner on a big UPS once (the air conditioner was maybe 1/4 the total capacity of the UPS), and it didn't like the inductive load on start-up for some reason. Maybe the starting surge, I don't know.
Come to think of it, if you lost power in a winter storm, you don't need to keep food cold in a reefer--just put it outside. It's COLD outside, remember? Keep the freezer stuff outside in a cooler. Keep refrigerated food in a cooler too--but in this case, it's to keep it from freezing; periodically bring the cooler inside to let it warm up a bit.
*I say "start" the car because the 12V has only one job when starting the engine: energize the relay that brings the larger 270V battery online, which uses the motor-generator to start the engine when required.
**I say "run" because most of the time, the engine won't be running. The car spends most of it's idle time, and even a good portion of actually moving time in the city, with the engine off.
For heating, being as we face no natural-gas outages just now, I'd recommend by-productive heating from your cooking sources after their normal use. The laws of thermodynamics can be useful when heating a house by this method;)
If you are refering to gas-fired cooking sources, sure...if you want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
A gas-fired furnace works because the CO is entrained in the furnace chimney and exhausted OUTSIDE. The flame heats a heat-transfer box where the inside air is heated and circulated.
Your gas stove probably does not do that.
"Normal use" does not entail keeping the bloody thing on for 6,7,8 hours constantly.
New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader.
What does the BMW iDrive use? I thought it was an embedded version of Windows.
Now to answer the question. Will my next car run Windows?
I HOPE TO GOD NOT!!
ESPECIALLY for anything critical to the car, like the ABS or ignition or anything like that. Some things just do NOT need a "one size fits all when distorted enough" OS. Mission-critical systems do NOT run an consumer-based OS.
Why must manufacturers attempt to make things more complicated than they need to be? Do my windows (no pun intended) really need to have a microprosser-based controller? Does manually turning on and off the headlights really need RAM? Heck, even such automatic functions are best handled by discrete circuits. An electric eye and comparator driving a relay, that is all it takes.
Engine monitoring, OK I can see the benefits of majing it uP-based, but a DEDICATED OS is the way to go.
I don't think the interviewer really did his research before the interview. The questions read like cookie-cutter, standard questions you ask the head of a company. The questions' lack of originality is quite remarkable.
I think my favorite quote was right in the beginning. "Well, the Northwest is certainly more like Finland in the sense that California is not like Finland."
"Quite honestly it's somewhat insulting to elections officials and volunteers," he said to the idea that elections officers would tamper with vote results.
I say "Quite honestly, it's somewhat insulting to the voters," to the idea that the voting public should naively disregard the human factor and that temptation/corruption/bribery "just don't happen."
Never underestimate the power of money, especially in large, unmarked bundles.
If you found someone's driver's wallet with their driver's license and credit cards, would you go ahead and impersonate them or steal their identity? It would be an identity theft - in some ways, I think that is exactly what this guy is doing.
How do you figure this is identity theft? Is the poster claiming to be the actual photographer?
From the website:
Further, in an attempt to present this pictorial information in a more personal manner, and also to better allow for some artistic license, I am going to pretend that I am the owner of the camera. I'll call me Jordan, because that's the name on my birthday cake (you'll see).
(emphasis added)
The author of a fiction book written in the first person is not CLAIMING to be that particular character; the author is PRETENDING to be that character for the purpose of telling a story. The difference between making claims of reality and make-believe are quite clear. The blogger from the very start made it clear that they were writing a story, not making a claim of reality.
Why be worried? The college is banning the installation/use of unauthorized WAPs on the campus network.
From your referenced webpage:
You may be one of the growing number of people who have installed a wireless (WiFi) network in your home. While it is easy to install a wireless access point (WAP), the current state of the technology does not lend itself to securely installing one on the campus network. An unsecured WAP on campus represents a network vulnerability.
You want to have a WAP in your apartment? Fine, as long as you are paying for the Internet connection from a commercial ISP and are administering your own network.
As far as no unauthorized WAPs being added to the campus network, I'm all for it. How can the campus IT department keep out unauthorized access to its network if students are adding their own wide-open WAPs?
However what if I vote for 1 candidate yet the receipt says I voted for another? That is the only problem I see.
That, my friend, is precisely the problem that the paper ballot (calling them receipts lends to the confusion...let's call them ballots) is designed to avoid. If the two differ, the discrepancy screams out "FRAUD!" and heads roll thereafter.
It is you who don't get it. The voter does NOT leave with the paper receipt, the receipt is retained by the voting precinct in case of a recount. The voter sees the paper and knows that, in the event of a recount, their vote is recorded correctly.
You'd think, though, at the very least - they'd remember to clear at least some of their more influential employees. I guess not.
Why should "more influential employees" be above the law? In some cases, influential employees would be in a better position to cause trouble since they would have easy access to desired materials (think espionage-providing information to terrorists) and nobody would question them until it was too late.
Is anyone else deliberately NOT watcing the Olympics in light of this corporate assholery? I'm in the UK, where we're not being censored, but I'm not going to encourage the corporate ad campaign that's masquerading as a sports event by tuning in.
I'm not watching the Olympics because of it either, and belted off a letter to NBC stating such. If I could find an address for the IOC (e-mail or otherwise) I'd tell them the same.
They're only barred from writing for other news organizations, not for personal websites. Blogging isn't banned, according to the article.
Oh yes it is...from the article:
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
I think the law came about as a tax break for businesses so they could purchase new trucks FOR BUSINESS USE. Dump trucks, semis, work pick-ups, etc. The weight limit was set to something that was supposed to exclude vehicles such as light pick-ups and cars.
The unfortunate (unintentional? Debatable...)side effect was that more and more vehicles (such as SUVs) are exceeding the weight limit set in this law and therefore qualify for the tax break. Thus, the SUVs that are bought on this premise are bought not by the individual, but by the individual's self-owned business.
The doctor with a private practice doesn't buy the SUV for personal use, he buys it for use at his practice. The self-employed consultant doesn't buy the H2, it is bought by his company (which he owns) as a company car.
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Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist
All in all though, the idea that a bacteria would cause a incurable disease is at the extremly long end of near insane thoughts.
Apparently the AIDS virus never got that memo. Granted we're talking bacteria, but the idea is the same. It is entirely conceivable, therefore, that a alien bacteria could cause an incurable disease. If something cannot be PROVEN impossible, then it must be assumed to be possible, no matter how improbable.
Any foreign bacteria would not be adapted to our natural defences against diseases, let alone some of our more complex immune system responses.
Aren't you refering to the same defenses (natural defenses=immune system?) in both parts of that statement? If you turn the statement around you get, in effect, that our immune systems would not be adapted to the foreign bacteria. Seems to me thatthe argument works both ways.
I think I can picture what you're looking for...
T-Mobile used to have the Samsung r225m phone that was free with a new contract. It's quite a simple phone, with just about everything you are talking about. The antenna sticks about 3/4" and the phone book isn't the absolute greatest, but it's simple and gets the job done.
They don't have it anymore though, it's been replaced by the 225c. The big difference as far as I can tell so far (and I haven't looked hard at all) is that it has a color screen.
I got a BlackBerry 7100t, but keep my old Samsung 225m around as a spare, since transferring the SIM card is all it takes to move from one to the other.
OK, you got me there...I did actually RTFS, but got it stuck in my head that this program would sniff from outside in, since that what was done in the past.
And has been said before, "past returns are not a guarantee for future performance."
Firewall,
firewall,
firewall.
I don't do the p2p thing but I'll be damned if I'm going to let somebody sniff around my system without my permission.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on your main point. It would seem to me that Best Buy, in fact, WANTS the intelligent customer who is looking for the best deal.
Why? Because this is the same customer who isn't going to return the purchase. The customer knows where the best deal is and gets it to save money and get satisfaction out of the purchase. It is the customer that is actively trying to work the system that is the one to avoid, and if I were a retailer, I'd avoid that customer too.
Store policy may be a restocking fee or restrictive return conditions, but discretion lets one bend the rules when one knows that they have a legitimate return in front of them. Selling a big-screen TV the week before the Super Bowl and seeing it returned the following week is a prime target for "store policy." Rebate goods being returned with no UPC symbols is a target of "store policy." Simple dissatisfaction with a product (with a possible willingness to try something else) can slip under the radar.
Apart from the fact that it is meaningless (any programmer knows that the printout doesn't have to match the vote that was recorded internally) there is a more fundamental problem.
That is why a paper printout must be mandatory. I read a story (wish I could remember where) that all the Spanish-language ballots in a particular eVote test were accidentally discarded by the machine, even though the screen indicated that they were recorded. A paper printout would serve as a backup for such instances where a software bug didn't properly count the vote.
By adding a printer, you're conceding that the electronic voting machine may not innately be able to provide complete confidence in the result.
Not only would I concede such a point, I would say it bluntly, and have done so to my government representatives and the local election board. "I don't trust electronic voting machines."
What's wrong with a pencil, a piece of paper, and a count process to which the candidates (and their lawyers) can be invited to ?
It doesn't satisfy our immediate desire to know the results of the election. It doesn't satisfy the "I want it and I want it NOW" mentality.
Other than that, there is nothing wrong with it. I fully support the use of paper ballots in any--ANY--election.
I have not provided a link deliberately. If you wish to read her article, you can find it, I'm sure by a Google search or off of Slashdot, since they made what I consider the unfortunate editorial decision to give the story more widespread readership than it otherwise would have received.
/. link, and I'm still confused. Isn't the whole point of publishing something on a website available to the public to get it read by said public? Don't you WANT people to read it? Furthermore, the aforementioned public that is going to add to the readership is the type of public that even has more than a passing interest in the story!
We've see this reaction before from a
On the surface, this looks as crazy as the Washington Post printing a story then complaining when readers tell other people about it, and they go read it.
Somebody enlighten me please before my head caves in.
(Disclaimer--do thas at your own risk. If you burn something up, it's your own damn fault)
Or get yourself a Toyota Prius hybrid.
Here is what I did with mine: I bought a 700W inverter and wired it to the small 12V battery used to "start"* the car. I can then let the car "run"** indefinitely and it will supply my loads quite nicely.
The 270V system maintains the 12V battery charge and supplies the inverter through the hybrid electrical system. The system will automatically cycle the engine on and off to maintain the battery charge and keep the engine/exhaust system warm.
If you want something bigger, get yourself a big (and I mean BIG) UPS. APC I know makes really big ones, up to 15KW at least if I remember right. How well they work on inductive loads remains to be seen. I tried putting an air conditioner on a big UPS once (the air conditioner was maybe 1/4 the total capacity of the UPS), and it didn't like the inductive load on start-up for some reason. Maybe the starting surge, I don't know.
Come to think of it, if you lost power in a winter storm, you don't need to keep food cold in a reefer--just put it outside. It's COLD outside, remember? Keep the freezer stuff outside in a cooler. Keep refrigerated food in a cooler too--but in this case, it's to keep it from freezing; periodically bring the cooler inside to let it warm up a bit.
*I say "start" the car because the 12V has only one job when starting the engine: energize the relay that brings the larger 270V battery online, which uses the motor-generator to start the engine when required.
**I say "run" because most of the time, the engine won't be running. The car spends most of it's idle time, and even a good portion of actually moving time in the city, with the engine off.
For heating, being as we face no natural-gas outages just now, I'd recommend by-productive heating from your cooking sources after their normal use. The laws of thermodynamics can be useful when heating a house by this method ;)
If you are refering to gas-fired cooking sources, sure...if you want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
A gas-fired furnace works because the CO is entrained in the furnace chimney and exhausted OUTSIDE. The flame heats a heat-transfer box where the inside air is heated and circulated.
Your gas stove probably does not do that.
"Normal use" does not entail keeping the bloody thing on for 6,7,8 hours constantly.
From the article:
New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader.
Any questions?
What does the BMW iDrive use? I thought it was an embedded version of Windows.
Now to answer the question. Will my next car run Windows?
I HOPE TO GOD NOT!!
ESPECIALLY for anything critical to the car, like the ABS or ignition or anything like that. Some things just do NOT need a "one size fits all when distorted enough" OS. Mission-critical systems do NOT run an consumer-based OS.
Why must manufacturers attempt to make things more complicated than they need to be? Do my windows (no pun intended) really need to have a microprosser-based controller? Does manually turning on and off the headlights really need RAM? Heck, even such automatic functions are best handled by discrete circuits. An electric eye and comparator driving a relay, that is all it takes.
Engine monitoring, OK I can see the benefits of majing it uP-based, but a DEDICATED OS is the way to go.
I don't think the interviewer really did his research before the interview. The questions read like cookie-cutter, standard questions you ask the head of a company. The questions' lack of originality is quite remarkable.
I think my favorite quote was right in the beginning. "Well, the Northwest is certainly more like Finland in the sense that California is not like Finland."
The reason that they are here:
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/08/interna
They were invited by the Secretary of State.
My guess is that you're playing for the Oakley sunglasses...the MP3 players is more or less a tag-along, as far as cost is concerned.
As somebody who has never owned a pair of Oakleys, I ask: wht does a good pair cost?
"Quite honestly it's somewhat insulting to elections officials and volunteers," he said to the idea that elections officers would tamper with vote results.
I say "Quite honestly, it's somewhat insulting to the voters," to the idea that the voting public should naively disregard the human factor and that temptation/corruption/bribery "just don't happen."
Never underestimate the power of money, especially in large, unmarked bundles.
If you found someone's driver's wallet with their driver's license and credit cards, would you go ahead and impersonate them or steal their identity? It would be an identity theft - in some ways, I think that is exactly what this guy is doing.
How do you figure this is identity theft? Is the poster claiming to be the actual photographer?
From the website:
Further, in an attempt to present this pictorial information in a more personal manner, and also to better allow for some artistic license, I am going to pretend that I am the owner of the camera. I'll call me Jordan, because that's the name on my birthday cake (you'll see).
(emphasis added)
The author of a fiction book written in the first person is not CLAIMING to be that particular character; the author is PRETENDING to be that character for the purpose of telling a story. The difference between making claims of reality and make-believe are quite clear. The blogger from the very start made it clear that they were writing a story, not making a claim of reality.
Why be worried? The college is banning the installation/use of unauthorized WAPs on the campus network.
From your referenced webpage:
You may be one of the growing number of people who have installed a wireless (WiFi) network in your home. While it is easy to install a wireless access point (WAP), the current state of the technology does not lend itself to securely installing one on the campus network. An unsecured WAP on campus represents a network vulnerability.
You want to have a WAP in your apartment? Fine, as long as you are paying for the Internet connection from a commercial ISP and are administering your own network.
As far as no unauthorized WAPs being added to the campus network, I'm all for it. How can the campus IT department keep out unauthorized access to its network if students are adding their own wide-open WAPs?
However what if I vote for 1 candidate yet the receipt says I voted for another? That is the only problem I see.
That, my friend, is precisely the problem that the paper ballot (calling them receipts lends to the confusion...let's call them ballots) is designed to avoid. If the two differ, the discrepancy screams out "FRAUD!" and heads roll thereafter.
It is you who don't get it. The voter does NOT leave with the paper receipt, the receipt is retained by the voting precinct in case of a recount. The voter sees the paper and knows that, in the event of a recount, their vote is recorded correctly.
You'd think, though, at the very least - they'd remember to clear at least some of their more influential employees. I guess not.
Why should "more influential employees" be above the law? In some cases, influential employees would be in a better position to cause trouble since they would have easy access to desired materials (think espionage-providing information to terrorists) and nobody would question them until it was too late.
Is anyone else deliberately NOT watcing the Olympics in light of this corporate assholery? I'm in the UK, where we're not being censored, but I'm not going to encourage the corporate ad campaign that's masquerading as a sports event by tuning in.
I'm not watching the Olympics because of it either, and belted off a letter to NBC stating such. If I could find an address for the IOC (e-mail or otherwise) I'd tell them the same.
They're only barred from writing for other news organizations, not for personal websites. Blogging isn't banned, according to the article.
Oh yes it is...from the article:
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
Blogging IS in fact banned.
I wonder if the IOC will ban the use of cellphones by participants at the 2006 Winter Olympics(tm)...
Pretty sad, really.
This will only encourage users to get a copy of the full Windows version so that they won't be limited in what they can do.
And that, my friend, is EXACTLY what Microsoft wants.
I think the law came about as a tax break for businesses so they could purchase new trucks FOR BUSINESS USE. Dump trucks, semis, work pick-ups, etc. The weight limit was set to something that was supposed to exclude vehicles such as light pick-ups and cars.
The unfortunate (unintentional? Debatable...)side effect was that more and more vehicles (such as SUVs) are exceeding the weight limit set in this law and therefore qualify for the tax break. Thus, the SUVs that are bought on this premise are bought not by the individual, but by the individual's self-owned business.
The doctor with a private practice doesn't buy the SUV for personal use, he buys it for use at his practice. The self-employed consultant doesn't buy the H2, it is bought by his company (which he owns) as a company car.
If this perception is wrong, please correct me.