His employer must not have done a sufficient background check on it because he got the job. In fact the only reason he got the bogus diploma was because the employer said he had to have a degree. Are you saying schools use SSN to match the identity to a name? Strictly speaking, the school cannot use your SSN for such things due to privacy rules surrounding SSN's, though I know they do it all the time. That's why you have student numbers instead of SSN's used by the school.
Even worse, places of prospective employment can call universities and get information about my enrollment as well (oftentimes without my social security number)! How many times have I lost a potential job from an employer who called a University to find out I never graduated. What a load! they should obviously by law only be allowed to take what I say about it.
OTOH, I know someone who got a college degree by calling colleges until he found someone with the same name who graduated at a time when he was of college age. He even got them to send a duplicate degree to him. He says most people waste four years getting a degree, whereas it took him only two days.
Because each wants something different, the fair way to handle it is to simply put it down (or up) as required. Men put it up, women put it down. The distribution of labor is fair, everyone has to put it up or down sometimes and not at other times.
Amen. Amazingly, when I explained this to my wife, she agreed and the issue completely disappeared. Showing not only that she's not a selfish twit, but that she can be convinced by logical reasoning.
Actually, FPGAs are also used for limited-run production, like custom hardware. It is almost impossible to get a foundry to run chips for an order under $1M (sometimes even $10M). So, when production means less than 1K units, FPGAs are cheaper, sometimes WAY cheaper. Yes, the article was about PC's, but I'm talking about FPGA's in general - they're ALL we use where I work. The reprogrammability is killer for updates and algorithm-specific usage.
Also, the person who claimed "orders of magnitude slower," is a few years behind. I routinely reach clock speeds well over 200 MHz for complex logic, and can take data in at 12 Gb/s, 16-bit DDR.
There are things in Gmail I've never seen anywhere else. For example, if there is an address in an email you receive, Gmail automatically creates a link to map the address with googlemaps. That's the kind of kickass idea that something like Outlook would never have.
I guess you meant Cue [wikipedia.org], not queue [wikipedia.org]. Unless you wanted to queue Apple-bashers, but then you would have completely different thing [engadget.com]
With all the thousands of Apple-bashers lining up with the same comment, I mean queue. It's called a pun.
Queue up a thousand replies saying "Why are they using iPod? The is way better! Get a life, folks. Apple finally has marketshare of something. If the story was about Kleenex, would you complain that Scott Tissue was way better? Jeez.
Wrong. The fact you are working on classified work is not in itself classified, though it may be considered sensitive, in that if you reveal that fact to anyone, you may be making a target of yourself. The actual "contract" you sign regarding the classified work is NOT classified, including abbreviations that represent particular clearance codewords (though actual codewords are classified, generally only at secret level).
A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.
When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.
I missed this when it happened, but I always suspected as much. Imagine this...
Driver: Hand me another brewski. Passenger: Here you go. ...Police cruiser shows up in rearview mirror.
Perhaps in the mundane jobs done by managers and tech-support lines, this is true. However, in many fields, this is simply NOT the case. For example, I design FPGAs (custom computer chips, for the uninitiated). When I make a change to my logic, it can take HOURS (or even DAYS) for my souped-up computer to simulate the result, and then additional hours to map the change onto a chip. Every time I upgrade, these times go down and I can generate more chip-turns per day. This can make a gigantic difference in productivity. I've been in situations where I can only turn one change per day, thanks to computer speed. Other fields where I'm sure this is also the case are chemistry, gene-mapping, astronomy, intelligence analysis, video-production, animation, etc. Okay, my Dilbert boss can't get any better at making PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets, but the REAL workers can always use more horsepower. I, especially, every time a new generation of IC density shows up and my tools choke on the design task.
cool, i'll have to have a listen. Do the other US TV networks voice outright criticism of Bush's foreign policy? It would be nice to know if there was a balance to Fox.
Basically, no. They don't want to be ignored at White House press briefings. Instead, they will quote someone who has voiced a criticism. Fox news' origin is different from the main networks here because they were never an OTA broadcast channel. Back in the early days (OTA-only, no cable or satellite), this country had a lot stricter controls on media ownership and balance of views. The advent of cable television has amounted to the creation of content that would never be allowed on OTA broadcast (especially in regards to sexual content). In this recent era, more channels are willing to spout out blatent propaganda and lies. If you want to hear some sane americans, see: www.npr.org or www.motherjones.com. The rightwingers will claim this is all liberal propaganda, but at least it tries to balance out the Fox ugly american view.
I dont know what the other american networks are like, but if they are even 50% as biased and agenda-based as Fox, then I would be really scared.
Ouch, your view of US news is only from Fox News? Imagine if my only view of UK news were from The Sun. Most of the US press is at least less obvious about their agenda. Fox is little more than a mouthpiece for the president and his conservative cronies. The only place to get "real" news (other than the BBC, which I watch and read) is from National Public Radio. The neo-cons will all respond claiming NPR is a liberal-agenda news source, but the fact is they tell you stories that the mainstream media won't touch for fear of pissing off those in power. And they have no problem blasting the left if they're as corrupt and incompetent as the right.
Hacker just needs to countersue, saying Microsoft could not have issued a patch that undid his DRM-removal without access to his source code. The arguement is the same, and with the time for Vista to ship as evidence that Microsoft cannot turn around updates quickly, source-code or no.
Figuring at 8 hours for a full charge, that works out to 12.5MW, which is 'only' 100A or so. This would be for slow trickle-charging overnight or while parked.
I guess I'll have to recalibrate; I've always considered 100A to be more of a raging torrent than a trickle.
I find that most bill providers have an option to receive your bills electronically, keeping them either in their "safe" (ie, website) or to receive them in e-mail. This is true for credit cards, banks, major utilities; the main exception being the city-run water and trash company.
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Ever hear of conduction cooling?
He probably means 200 man-hours, like 20 people working 10 hours. BFD!
Yeah, prostitution is the most people-ready business I know. Others include televangelists and the military.
I can think of 7 points of entry (nostrils, ears, mouth..). How are they going to make another 3?
1. Right Nostril
2. Left Nostril
3. Right Ear
4. Left Ear
5. Mouth
6. Anus
7. Vagina (if you have one)
Only a fool would consent to it.
How do you know that free "flu shot" wasn't really an RFID? Funny how they recorded the vaccine serial number "for your records."
The term "Personal Computer" came into play because that's what IBM named their first microcomputer: the IBM Personal Computer."
Wrong! My Apple II+ came in a box that said: "The Personal Computer." Apple was calling their II+ a PC before the IBM PC even came out.
His employer must not have done a sufficient background check on it because he got the job. In fact the only reason he got the bogus diploma was because the employer said he had to have a degree. Are you saying schools use SSN to match the identity to a name? Strictly speaking, the school cannot use your SSN for such things due to privacy rules surrounding SSN's, though I know they do it all the time. That's why you have student numbers instead of SSN's used by the school.
Even worse, places of prospective employment can call universities and get information about my enrollment as well (oftentimes without my social security number)! How many times have I lost a potential job from an employer who called a University to find out I never graduated. What a load! they should obviously by law only be allowed to take what I say about it.
OTOH, I know someone who got a college degree by calling colleges until he found someone with the same name who graduated at a time when he was of college age. He even got them to send a duplicate degree to him. He says most people waste four years getting a degree, whereas it took him only two days.
Because each wants something different, the fair way to handle it is to simply put it down (or up) as required. Men put it up, women put it down. The distribution of labor is fair, everyone has to put it up or down sometimes and not at other times.
Amen. Amazingly, when I explained this to my wife, she agreed and the issue completely disappeared. Showing not only that she's not a selfish twit, but that she can be convinced by logical reasoning.
(don't piss on the seat)
But if the seat's on fire, perhaps you should piss on it.
Actually, FPGAs are also used for limited-run production, like custom hardware. It is almost impossible to get a foundry to run chips for an order under $1M (sometimes even $10M). So, when production means less than 1K units, FPGAs are cheaper, sometimes WAY cheaper. Yes, the article was about PC's, but I'm talking about FPGA's in general - they're ALL we use where I work. The reprogrammability is killer for updates and algorithm-specific usage.
Also, the person who claimed "orders of magnitude slower," is a few years behind. I routinely reach clock speeds well over 200 MHz for complex logic, and can take data in at 12 Gb/s, 16-bit DDR.
There are things in Gmail I've never seen anywhere else. For example, if there is an address in an email you receive, Gmail automatically creates a link to map the address with googlemaps. That's the kind of kickass idea that something like Outlook would never have.
Its not like they increased their breeding rate or anything.
RTFA yourself:
The modified mosquitoes had a higher survival rate and laid more eggs.
Ergo, more mosquitos.
I guess you meant Cue [wikipedia.org], not queue [wikipedia.org]. Unless you wanted to queue Apple-bashers, but then you would have completely different thing [engadget.com]
With all the thousands of Apple-bashers lining up with the same comment, I mean queue. It's called a pun.
Queue up a thousand replies saying "Why are they using iPod? The is way better! Get a life, folks. Apple finally has marketshare of something. If the story was about Kleenex, would you complain that Scott Tissue was way better? Jeez.
Wrong. The fact you are working on classified work is not in itself classified, though it may be considered sensitive, in that if you reveal that fact to anyone, you may be making a target of yourself. The actual "contract" you sign regarding the classified work is NOT classified, including abbreviations that represent particular clearance codewords (though actual codewords are classified, generally only at secret level).
But no one seems to stock it. Is it still available? I've wanted something like this for quite some time.
A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations. When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.
I missed this when it happened, but I always suspected as much. Imagine this...
Driver: Hand me another brewski.
Passenger: Here you go.
...Police cruiser shows up in rearview mirror.
I just hope this Glenn Fine isn't related to Larry Fine (Wise guy, eh?)
Perhaps in the mundane jobs done by managers and tech-support lines, this is true. However, in many fields, this is simply NOT the case. For example, I design FPGAs (custom computer chips, for the uninitiated). When I make a change to my logic, it can take HOURS (or even DAYS) for my souped-up computer to simulate the result, and then additional hours to map the change onto a chip. Every time I upgrade, these times go down and I can generate more chip-turns per day. This can make a gigantic difference in productivity. I've been in situations where I can only turn one change per day, thanks to computer speed. Other fields where I'm sure this is also the case are chemistry, gene-mapping, astronomy, intelligence analysis, video-production, animation, etc. Okay, my Dilbert boss can't get any better at making PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets, but the REAL workers can always use more horsepower. I, especially, every time a new generation of IC density shows up and my tools choke on the design task.
cool, i'll have to have a listen. Do the other US TV networks voice outright criticism of Bush's foreign policy? It would be nice to know if there was a balance to Fox.
Basically, no. They don't want to be ignored at White House press briefings. Instead, they will quote someone who has voiced a criticism. Fox news' origin is different from the main networks here because they were never an OTA broadcast channel. Back in the early days (OTA-only, no cable or satellite), this country had a lot stricter controls on media ownership and balance of views. The advent of cable television has amounted to the creation of content that would never be allowed on OTA broadcast (especially in regards to sexual content). In this recent era, more channels are willing to spout out blatent propaganda and lies. If you want to hear some sane americans, see: www.npr.org or www.motherjones.com. The rightwingers will claim this is all liberal propaganda, but at least it tries to balance out the Fox ugly american view.
I dont know what the other american networks are like, but if they are even 50% as biased and agenda-based as Fox, then I would be really scared.
Ouch, your view of US news is only from Fox News? Imagine if my only view of UK news were from The Sun. Most of the US press is at least less obvious about their agenda. Fox is little more than a mouthpiece for the president and his conservative cronies. The only place to get "real" news (other than the BBC, which I watch and read) is from National Public Radio. The neo-cons will all respond claiming NPR is a liberal-agenda news source, but the fact is they tell you stories that the mainstream media won't touch for fear of pissing off those in power. And they have no problem blasting the left if they're as corrupt and incompetent as the right.
Hacker just needs to countersue, saying Microsoft could not have issued a patch that undid his DRM-removal without access to his source code. The arguement is the same, and with the time for Vista to ship as evidence that Microsoft cannot turn around updates quickly, source-code or no.
Figuring at 8 hours for a full charge, that works out to 12.5MW, which is 'only' 100A or so. This would be for slow trickle-charging overnight or while parked.
I guess I'll have to recalibrate; I've always considered 100A to be more of a raging torrent than a trickle.
I find that most bill providers have an option to receive your bills electronically, keeping them either in their "safe" (ie, website) or to receive them in e-mail. This is true for credit cards, banks, major utilities; the main exception being the city-run water and trash company.