Actually, there is NO absolute proof of the so called "second hand smoking" (passive smoking). Everything said about it is based on a single, very questionable report release way back (70s ? 80s ?) .
In the days before smoking was banned in hospitals I made the transition from the vistor in the waiting room to the patient in the ER - acute asthmatic attack.
While employed he was authorized to access those systems. He didn't access them after his employment was terminated, so it isn't Computer Tresspass or anything similar.
The system works, so he didn't break it.
While they can certainly fire him for insubordination, I'm not exactly sure what he could really be charged with. .
This has the flavor of a Geek defense.
Too clever by half, I suspect.
I am not sure exactly sure where it all goes wrong. I am pretty sure that it does go all wrong.
Hey dreamchaser, this is your boss. I need write access to the email archives. The SEC has been poking around and, well, you know how it goes. .
You report the incident to his boss.
The Board of the Directors. The FBI. The SEC.
There are many ways to protect yourself and the legitimate interests of your employer.
Your employer is not your boss. Your employer is the corporation. You do not have the right to take its system hostage. You do not have the right to paralyze its operations.
You want to be the Caped Crusader? Put on the Bat Suit.
the main reason we're still using 1980's style window systems, programmed in 1970's style languages, running on top of 1960's style kernels and file systems is because Microsoft perpetuated that. .
Microsoft has two core markets:
The corporate client who moves are glacial because significant changes are expensive and disruptive. It is no coincidence that Linux has had its success in the back office - where transitioning from UNIX is relatively painless.
The home and SOHO user who is not technologically oriented or adept and whose needs and values are not the geek's. MS Vista is close to claiming twenty percent of that market and OSX ten.
Linux has yet to break into the single digit.
The geek talks blithely about market forces - but markets are a study in pragmatism. The solution which is available - today - the solution which gets the job done.
The geek tends to forget how intractable the user can be when it comes to innovation:
The automobile has been around since 1896 and endlessly refined since - but once the tiller is replaced with a wheel and the hand throttle with a foot pedal, the standard UI for the past 100 years is pretty much in place.
"it makes no mention of the resurrection" thats because it's a made up fairy tale and it didn't happen. it's amazing to me that everyone this day and age doesn't get this .
The resurrection is in all four of these early gospel texts - meaning you didn't read beyond the summary or examine it critically. You were ready to believe what you wanted to believe.
The problem with such technologies is that they require powerful computers, with plenty of RAM (and probably a fast video card), and a solid user base. .
The desktop base for Windows is approaching 70% for XP and 20% for Vista. OSX 8% 2% for W2K.
Then that 40% could consider upgrading to an old toy like OS like Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It's not shiny, it's not new, it's not a toy and it doesn't serve blue screens everytime you press Ctrl-Alt-Del at the wrong moment. .
That 40% is quite obviously content with the MS-DOS, Win 3 and Win 9x apps they have been around for damn near thirty years. They will not be switching to Linux at this late date.
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It made the scenes scarier when your mind filled in the details for you. .
In Psycho you are seeing much less than you think you are. I believe Hitch toyed with the idea of tinting the blood red in the shower scene and thought better of it.
Handing the package with a time bomb to a kid builds suspense and terror. The explosion and torn bodies are just theatrical effects.
You're ignoring the cause of the problem, which is that we stick our noses into everyone's business. >.
The root cause is deeper and simpler.
Bin Ladin dreams of a pan-Islamic medieval caliphate.
This isn't Islamic civilization in its creative prime. It is a redaction of that culture embalmed and hermetically sealed.
He hates the West because the West has been successful - and the success of the West has never been one-dimensional. The West exports culture as effortlessly as it exports food and new technologies.
The West changes and evolves at an extraordinary pace.
It is no coincidence that Ben Laden sought refuge among a tribal culture that is as far removed from a man like Saladin as it is to us.
The average 15 year old has sharper vision and quicker reflexes than anyone who'll need this technology... yet which one of them is allowed to get a driver's license? .
Vision and reflexes are fine. Experience, judgment and self-control can count for more. Each spring we bury a few more kids who didn't make it past their high school graduation.
I think they would benefit more by learning to adjust the speed and how their vehicles actually handle in inclement weather. .
It interests me when the geek argues that less information - less situational awareness is better.
I have been caught in rush hour traffic in Buffalo New York when visibility has shrunk to nothing in fog and snow and ice ---sandwiched between drivers who had their own notion of what was safe.
Why are people that require 'driving enhancements' allowed to drive in the first place? .
I suggest a taste of what passes for rural metro bus service in your area.
In the western third of our county there is one morning run and one afternoon run.
Your daily commute is at 2 1/2 hours out and 2 1/2 hours back.
Its primary purpose is transportation for the physically fit but mentally retarded adult - linking group homes, clinics, hospitals, sheltered work programs and so on.
It is to be blunt a drearily institutional run - rather more cheering and sociable than the sheriff's prison van.
But planned and executed in much the same spirit.
Some passengers will need to be coaxed onto the bus. Some passengers will need to be coaxed off the bus. Some cannot be trusted to cross a road alone.
The service is theoretically open to anyone. You can schedule a pick-up anywhere on the route. But there are no wheelchair lifts. No shelters.
In the winter you might find some relief in the shadow of the neighborhood mini-mart - still closed at 7 AM. The driver may roar past your stop without thinking.
The steps will be Alpine for anyone needing a cane.
Reading from the story, the original idea was good but things got out of hand .
The story made the news because the brass tried to fund the capsules through the GWOT - Global War On Terrorism - the combat mission and off the budget for basic transportation.
The obsession with details of carpeting and upholstery was a gift - pure gold - to the late night comic.
On the first of February, we intend to begin unrestricted submarine warfare. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and make peace together. We shall give generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The details of settlement are left to you.
You are instructed to inform the President [of Mexico] of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the President, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence with this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Japan and ourselves.
Please call to the attention of the President that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace in a few months.
There is much of interest here - not least the talk of an alliance with Japan.
The historical background:
April 22, 1915
The German Embassy publishes this warning which will appear below a New York Times marine add posting Lusitania's schedule:
NOTICE!
>
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
May 7, 1915 Luistania torpedoed without warning. 1200 die.
August 1915 A Bavarian metal worker stamps out 500 or so back-dated commemorative medallions of the sinking -- which British propagandists will replicate in the hundreds of thousands for sale through British wartime charities.
August 27, 1915 The Kaiser restricts attacks on large passenger vessels.
September 18, 1915 Unrestricted submarine warfare ends
Upscale urban buyers are going to be relatively unaffected by a recession. .
Historically - it is the upscale seller who finds himself among the walking wounded - if not a specter at the feast. The Ford V8 lives - the Dusenberg dies.
Well that's that. Usenet is dead. I am glad that child predators won't have any [giganews.com] other [usenet.com] way [usenet.net] to access the cesspool of child pornography that is Usenet.
USENET like IRC chat requires clients that are arcane and fussy to use.
It is uninviting territory for new participants unless they have something very specific in mind --- most likely the trade in music, DVDs, warez and porn that causes nothing but heartburn for their ISP.
The five-star-rated News Rover 11 for Windows has seen 210,000 downloads in two years
--- if you want to crack the Download.com Windows Top-Twenty you need to see those kind of numbers each week.
Your unlimited service from Giganews is $25/mo - $30/mo with SSL encryption. Plus whatever bandwidth surcharges your ISP may lay on top of that.
Giganews is not invisible. Giganews is your next target.
Personally, I'll take the unlimited DVD-Blu-Ray rental package from NetFlix.
Open the mailer. Load the disk.
Perhaps as you grow older, you grow tired of the game.
Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows. .
In these stats, adoption of Vista appears to be accelerating and the Mac stagnating as we head into late summer. MacIntel is where the action is for OSX and the MacIntel has BootCamp. Desktop Linux draws flies.
Windows 91% - All Versions Down 2%
The Mac and the MacIntel 8% Up 2%
Apple sells an upscale urban life-style. Microsoft solid middle class value. Apple has the boutique in Manhattan. Microsoft the big-box retailer in every township populous enough to rate a single traffic light.
Long term and with the economy in recession, who do you think holds the stronger cards?
Or even better, use satellite phones instead of rigging up a more expensive and less reliable facsimile of satellite phones. .
Less expensive, I think not:
Calls to Iridium phones are notoriously expensive, ranging from US$3 to US$14 per minute. It is possible to call with charges reversed by first dialing a number in Arizona; the call is charged to the receiver at the standard rate for satellite to landline calls, but the caller only pays for the call to Arizona. Since Iridium will not sell prepaid cards or even its subscription call service directly, it is hard to obtain the exact price of making a call. There are numerous distributors that will activate Iridium phones and sell pre-paid vouchers and SIM cards. Regardless of the price, each pre-paid card or monthly plan comes with a number of minutes. These minutes are the "basic rate" to landlines. For a 500 minute annual plan the cost of the "basic rates" fluctuates around US$1.50/min.
Iridium operates at only 2.2 to 3.8 kilobaud, which requires very aggressive voice compression and decompression algorithms. Latency can range from 800 to 3500 milliseconds.Iridium
If he has the broadband link, why not use it? The low latency connection is a fantasy. Save the Iridium minutes for when you really need them and not the-keeping-in-touch call to your sister in Toronto.
Slashdot Mirror
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In the days before smoking was banned in hospitals I made the transition from the vistor in the waiting room to the patient in the ER - acute asthmatic attack.
Secondhand Smoke Fact Sheet
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General [July 2006]
The system works, so he didn't break it.
While they can certainly fire him for insubordination, I'm not exactly sure what he could really be charged with.
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This has the flavor of a Geek defense.
Too clever by half, I suspect.
I am not sure exactly sure where it all goes wrong. I am pretty sure that it does go all wrong.
.
Mental illness is not a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
You can be paranoid and delusional. That doesn't mean you've lost all self-control.
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You report the incident to his boss.
The Board of the Directors. The FBI. The SEC.
There are many ways to protect yourself and the legitimate interests of your employer.
Your employer is not your boss. Your employer is the corporation. You do not have the right to take its system hostage. You do not have the right to paralyze its operations.
You want to be the Caped Crusader? Put on the Bat Suit.
.
Microsoft has two core markets:
The corporate client who moves are glacial because significant changes are expensive and disruptive. It is no coincidence that Linux has had its success in the back office - where transitioning from UNIX is relatively painless.
The home and SOHO user who is not technologically oriented or adept and whose needs and values are not the geek's. MS Vista is close to claiming twenty percent of that market and OSX ten.
Linux has yet to break into the single digit.
The geek talks blithely about market forces - but markets are a study in pragmatism. The solution which is available - today - the solution which gets the job done.
The geek tends to forget how intractable the user can be when it comes to innovation:
The automobile has been around since 1896 and endlessly refined since - but once the tiller is replaced with a wheel and the hand throttle with a foot pedal, the standard UI for the past 100 years is pretty much in place.
thats because it's a made up fairy tale and it didn't happen. it's amazing to me that everyone this day and age doesn't get this
.
The resurrection is in all four of these early gospel texts - meaning you didn't read beyond the summary or examine it critically. You were ready to believe what you wanted to believe.
.
The desktop base for Windows is approaching 70% for XP and 20% for Vista.
OSX 8% 2% for W2K.
Top Operating System Share Trend
You can muck about with these trend lines , but mostly what happens is that OSX grows a little bit faster and Vista a little bit slower.
Install Silverlight
Compatible Operating Systems and Browsers
Windows Vista
IE7, Firefox 1.5+
Windows XP SP2
IE7, IE6, Firefox 1.5+
OSX 10,4.8
Firefox 1.5+, Safari
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Windows
X86 or X64 500 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
PowerPC
Mac G4 800 MHz, 128MB RAM
MacIntel
Core Duo 1.83 GHz, 128 MB RAM
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What The Hell Is Microsoft BITS
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That 40% is quite obviously content with the MS-DOS, Win 3 and Win 9x apps they have been around for damn near thirty years. They will not be switching to Linux at this late date.
.
In Psycho you are seeing much less than you think you are. I believe Hitch toyed with the idea of tinting the blood red in the shower scene and thought better of it.
Handing the package with a time bomb to a kid builds suspense and terror. The explosion and torn bodies are just theatrical effects.
.
That Batman has a sponsor - most likely a villegence committee, a secretive "Group of Four" - or something of the sort - is a given.
That Bruce Wayne is quietly contributing money and tech to the enterprise wouldn't come as much of a surprise to anyone.
Not much happens in Gotham without a Wayne becoming a part of it.
That he was more deeply involved is something else again.
>.
The root cause is deeper and simpler.
Bin Ladin dreams of a pan-Islamic medieval caliphate.
This isn't Islamic civilization in its creative prime. It is a redaction of that culture embalmed and hermetically sealed.
He hates the West because the West has been successful - and the success of the West has never been one-dimensional. The West exports culture as effortlessly as it exports food and new technologies.
The West changes and evolves at an extraordinary pace.
It is no coincidence that Ben Laden sought refuge among a tribal culture that is as far removed from a man like Saladin as it is to us.
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This was my first thought.
Nothing of substance - if your objective is a compelling argument for room temperature fusion - has evolved from this line of research.
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Vision and reflexes are fine. Experience, judgment and self-control can count for more. Each spring we bury a few more kids who didn't make it past their high school graduation.
.
With apologies to the A.C. who first posted this link:
State-by-state Driving Rules for Teenage Drivers
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It interests me when the geek argues that less information - less situational awareness is better.
I have been caught in rush hour traffic in Buffalo New York when visibility has shrunk to nothing in fog and snow and ice ---sandwiched between drivers who had their own notion of what was safe.
.
I suggest a taste of what passes for rural metro bus service in your area.
In the western third of our county there is one morning run and one afternoon run.
Your daily commute is at 2 1/2 hours out and 2 1/2 hours back.
Its primary purpose is transportation for the physically fit but mentally retarded adult - linking group homes, clinics, hospitals, sheltered work programs and so on.
It is to be blunt a drearily institutional run - rather more cheering and sociable than the sheriff's prison van.
But planned and executed in much the same spirit.
Some passengers will need to be coaxed onto the bus. Some passengers will need to be coaxed off the bus. Some cannot be trusted to cross a road alone.
The service is theoretically open to anyone. You can schedule a pick-up anywhere on the route. But there are no wheelchair lifts. No shelters.
In the winter you might find some relief in the shadow of the neighborhood mini-mart - still closed at 7 AM. The driver may roar past your stop without thinking.
The steps will be Alpine for anyone needing a cane.
.
The story made the news because the brass tried to fund the capsules through the GWOT - Global War On Terrorism - the combat mission and off the budget for basic transportation.
The obsession with details of carpeting and upholstery was a gift - pure gold - to the late night comic.
.
The German occupation of Belgium set the pattern for what was to come. The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War 1
The Zimmermann Telegram was authentic:
January 16, 1917
On the first of February, we intend to begin unrestricted submarine warfare. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and make peace together. We shall give generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The details of settlement are left to you.
You are instructed to inform the President [of Mexico] of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the President, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence with this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Japan and ourselves.
Please call to the attention of the President that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace in a few months.
There is much of interest here - not least the talk of an alliance with Japan.
The historical background:
April 22, 1915
The German Embassy publishes this warning which will appear below a New York Times marine add posting Lusitania's schedule:
NOTICE!
> TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on the ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
May 7, 1915 Luistania torpedoed without warning. 1200 die.
August 1915 A Bavarian metal worker stamps out 500 or so back-dated commemorative medallions of the sinking -- which British propagandists will replicate in the hundreds of thousands for sale through British wartime charities.
August 27, 1915 The Kaiser restricts attacks on large passenger vessels.
September 18, 1915 Unrestricted submarine warfare ends
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modded +3, Informative.
but this attitude sets off alarms.
exposing a geek who despises his supervisors and is used to thinking of the server rooms as his personal playground.
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Historically - it is the upscale seller who finds himself among the walking wounded - if not a specter at the feast.
The Ford V8 lives - the Dusenberg dies.
.
We have been through this before.
USENET like IRC chat requires clients that are arcane and fussy to use.
It is uninviting territory for new participants unless they have something very specific in mind --- most likely the trade in music, DVDs, warez and porn that causes nothing but heartburn for their ISP.
The five-star-rated News Rover 11 for Windows has seen 210,000 downloads in two years
--- if you want to crack the Download.com Windows Top-Twenty you need to see those kind of numbers each week.
Your unlimited service from Giganews is $25/mo - $30/mo with SSL encryption. Plus whatever bandwidth surcharges your ISP may lay on top of that.
Giganews is not invisible. Giganews is your next target.
Personally, I'll take the unlimited DVD-Blu-Ray rental package from NetFlix.
Open the mailer. Load the disk.
Perhaps as you grow older, you grow tired of the game.
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Top Operating System Share Trend
August 07 - June 08
Windows Vista 16%
Up 10%
The MacIntel 5%.
Up 2%
The Mac 3%
Unchanged.
Linux 0.8%.
Up 0.3%
In these stats, adoption of Vista appears to be accelerating and the Mac stagnating as we head into late summer.
MacIntel is where the action is for OSX and the MacIntel has BootCamp.
Desktop Linux draws flies.
Top Operating System Share Trend
Windows 91% - All Versions
Down 2%
The Mac and the MacIntel 8%
Up 2%
Apple sells an upscale urban life-style. Microsoft solid middle class value.
Apple has the boutique in Manhattan. Microsoft the big-box retailer in every township populous enough to rate a single traffic light.
Long term and with the economy in recession, who do you think holds the stronger cards?
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Less expensive, I think not:
Calls to Iridium phones are notoriously expensive, ranging from US$3 to US$14 per minute. It is possible to call with charges reversed by first dialing a number in Arizona; the call is charged to the receiver at the standard rate for satellite to landline calls, but the caller only pays for the call to Arizona. Since Iridium will not sell prepaid cards or even its subscription call service directly, it is hard to obtain the exact price of making a call. There are numerous distributors that will activate Iridium phones and sell pre-paid vouchers and SIM cards. Regardless of the price, each pre-paid card or monthly plan comes with a number of minutes. These minutes are the "basic rate" to landlines. For a 500 minute annual plan the cost of the "basic rates" fluctuates around US$1.50/min.
Iridium operates at only 2.2 to 3.8 kilobaud, which requires very aggressive voice compression and decompression algorithms. Latency can range from 800 to 3500 milliseconds. Iridium
If he has the broadband link, why not use it? The low latency connection is a fantasy. Save the Iridium minutes for when you really need them and not the-keeping-in-touch call to your sister in Toronto.
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Strange.
Shoutcast is still around.
Screamer, vTuner and others.
There are the subscription services like Live365 and Rhapsody.