I guess I didn't know they had replaced the system. That is a good thing that they send out on the cellular network now. I'm not sure why my phone has never done one of the required periodic tests. Nor has it ever given me an emergency alert at any other time. It has given me countless Amber Alerts, the average distance from me being about 100 miles, and most of them have turned out to be either runaways or child custody issues, which they are not supposed to issue Amber Alerts for.
All FM stations are required to be part of the Emergency Broadcast System. If you were in an emergency, it wouldn't matter which one you listened to. I am no t sure how you could have missed this information, since this is even taught in grade schools that you should watch local news or listen to local radio in an emergency.
If you were not listening to it, I don't see how there would be much additional battery drain. It kind of depends on whether they have disabled it at the hardware or at the software level. If it is at the software level, then it is already draining your battery. However, if you look at it in perspective of FM versus streaming radio, then you are talking a SAVINGS of battery by orders of magnitude.
Of course you do. Anybody who can think clearly would want this. You have already paid for it. It is available on the phone, you should be able to listen to it. FM radio offers local entertainment, sports, weather, traffic and news. The FM receiver will give you alerts from the Emergency Broadcast System. The FM receiver uses a tiny fraction of the battery that a full time data connection requires, and of course, the one that makes the carriers disable it, FM doesn't require you to pay huge sums of money to the carrier for a data plan.
I'm sorry, is it just me? What kind of information are you going to put out over FM to cell-phones, in an emergency, that will be life-saving?
Life saving information is already put out over FM in emergencies. Your smartphone probably has an FM receiver. It is disabled because your carrier is money grubbing scum. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio is currently 0. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio if the carrier did not block it is greater than zero. You already have bought and paid for the equipment and your carrier won't let you use it.
I can't understand what all of this defense of the carrier is about. They are stealing from us by not allowing us to use our equipment that we bought and yes, endangering our lives, even if they are doing so by only 1 chance in a billion, they are still endangering our lives by not allowing us access to what we have bought and paid for.
Yeah very pointless. More and more stations are going to cyber jocks who wouldn't have the slightest clue about a tornado warning or flooded roads. The FCC should be more concerned about that. Local TV is much more effective at reporting local emergencies.
I am not aware of any stations in my area that use recorder or remote disc jockeys. The local personalities are definitely local. You can go see them at grocery stores, car lots and what have you if you feel like it.
There are syndicated shows, but if there is a weather or other emergency the local people break in. Some of the stations carry the audio from the local TV when there is a weather emergency.
All of them have to support the Emergency Broadcast System, as do the TV stations. Cell phones don't have to support the Emergency Broadcast System. If the system was more reliable or useful for emergency communications, then they probably would be forced to support it.
Excellent point. Well, lets look at how many lives have been saved by having Data on their phones. And let's looked at how many have been killed because they had data on their phone. Well, looks like we need to disable data too.
Why do you assume FM transmissions would still be working?
In multiple emergencies, I have seen electricity go out, cell service go out (or get overloaded), cable TV go out, but I have never seen FM or local Television go out.
If I was looking at 10 TB of storage, I would guess that I might have a need for maybe a 300 or 400 GB SSD along with platter. I use SSD for only a small fraction of my storage. Basically the OS and files which I need to load fast. In my case that is Flight Simulator files. I have 3 TB of platter drive for everything else. If you are storing media (just guessing, based on the 10 TB), then platter is plenty fast enough for loading.
Problem is as a consumer I could care less about the speed of SSD drives. I would like to care about the speed but they've not addressed the major problem: price. $1/GB is just insane in a $0.03/GB world. I need capacity far more than I need speed.
Actually, in the SSD world, that is more like $0.40/GB. So this new low price point is only 2.5 times the existing price point. But then , the speed is about triple. I don't think I would pay 2.5 times as much for 3 times the speed, but maybe other people would.
If you REALLY don't care about speed and are only interested in capacity, then SSDs should not even be on the radar for you. Look at Hard Drives instead.
Yes, that is ridiculous that you would get life in prison for hacking or for smoking pot, and also ridiculous that you would get 4 years in prison for flying near the white house. The airspace belongs to the people.
A charitable organisation has to PROVE it is a charity under the definitions of the tax law rules. A *religious* charitable organisation does not have to give any proof.
Wrong. A Church has to apply for 501(c) just like any other Charitable organization, and is subject to the same tax rules, other than some minor rules about auditing.
I'm sure if you actually looked into the ownership, you will find that the restaurants, coffee shops and bookstores are owned by an organization that is not tax-exempt, although it may have some common ownership with the organization which owns the Church.
Nobody wronged the TSA, so the TSA can't call the police. They didn't even witness the crime, they only heard about it afterwards. What needs to happen is for the thousands of men who were sexually assaulted need to bring up criminal charges against the TSA employees and civil charges against the TSA for allowing, enabling and encouraging the sexual assault.
Somewhere in the 1990s I went to visit my parents with my sister and I had an earlier return flight, but my sister ended up needing to get back home earlier. We switched tickets. The airline had no issue whatsoever.
What you're saying I haven't experienced since maybe 2-3 months after Vista was released. So please share some more details on what exactly you are doing that makes a UAC prompt appear every time you move the mouse, and which of the many millions of programs on the PC actually require administrator to run?
It doesn't happen to me either because after the first day of dealing with dozens of popups, I turned it off.
I don't think I am going to bother with listing out the millions of programs which require administrator to run. I'm sure there is a site out there somewhere. I know i see far too many programs that SAY they need administrator, but maybe do not. Many programmers run as administrator on their own machines so they put in the documentation that the programs they develop must run as administrator.
Perhaps they should advertise it not as a split screen program, but a "make Windows usable" program, since most Windows programs are written incorrectly, so you get dozens of UAC dialogues every time you move the mouse, and nothing works unless it is run as administrator,
But you still want to look like an asshole. Only egotistical narcissistic assholes use dual monitors.
I used to use a single monitor back when programs were written such that they didn't hog all available screen real estate while still somehow making it necessary for you to do 5 mouseclicks to get to any of the functions of the program. Back when 17" monitors were relatively new, I had a 17" monitor and I could have 3 or 4 terminal sessions going along with several Windows program and could work seemlessly. Now you are constantly paging because every single Windows program is unusable unless it is in full screen even though the number of white pixels is approximately 98%.
Christianity doesn't "lead to" terrorism any more than Islam "Leads to" terrorism. Neither religion condones or supports terrorism. People support terrorism. People lie and manipulate to support terrorism. People falsely use religion to support terrorism. Don't blame religion. Religion isn't even a physical thing capable of thinking for itself. Blame people.
Yup, just like in the real world, if you want to fly airplanes for fun, you get a Private Pilot certificate, and you are subject to numerous restrictions. If you want to get paid to do it, then you have to get a commercial pilot certificate, or face suspension of your license.
The only reason they fine drone operators is because they can't suspend their license because they don't have one.
There's a reason they just sent a bunch of people and equipment to Canada to do their real testing. Because the administration in the US is entirely hostile to this sort of research in practical terms.
There's also a reason that the FAA doesn't give out airworthiness certificates with your breakfast cereal. They don't want you to die.
So how does changing a wall paper (which could easlily be switched back) equate to FELONY which is supposed to mean "serious crime", right up there with murder, rape, bank robery, kid napping, and a number of others.
It doesn't, but that was not the crime. That was one of the byproducts of the crime. The crime was hacking into the computer. Even if you know the password, if you the authorized user for the account used, then that is hacking. If you don't like the law, there are two things you can do. Either 1. Don't break the law. or 2. Appeal to your congresscritter to get the law changed.
That being said, changing desktop wallpaper or other configuration on someone else's computer is extremely rude and not befitting of a member of society.
I'm sure the scientists who study ecosystems do know more than me. That is probably why the alarms are being rung by a journalist and not by the scientists.
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I guess I didn't know they had replaced the system. That is a good thing that they send out on the cellular network now. I'm not sure why my phone has never done one of the required periodic tests. Nor has it ever given me an emergency alert at any other time. It has given me countless Amber Alerts, the average distance from me being about 100 miles, and most of them have turned out to be either runaways or child custody issues, which they are not supposed to issue Amber Alerts for.
All FM stations are required to be part of the Emergency Broadcast System. If you were in an emergency, it wouldn't matter which one you listened to. I am no t sure how you could have missed this information, since this is even taught in grade schools that you should watch local news or listen to local radio in an emergency.
If you were not listening to it, I don't see how there would be much additional battery drain. It kind of depends on whether they have disabled it at the hardware or at the software level. If it is at the software level, then it is already draining your battery. However, if you look at it in perspective of FM versus streaming radio, then you are talking a SAVINGS of battery by orders of magnitude.
Real FM radio, not streamed internet radio.
Of course you do. Anybody who can think clearly would want this. You have already paid for it. It is available on the phone, you should be able to listen to it. FM radio offers local entertainment, sports, weather, traffic and news. The FM receiver will give you alerts from the Emergency Broadcast System. The FM receiver uses a tiny fraction of the battery that a full time data connection requires, and of course, the one that makes the carriers disable it, FM doesn't require you to pay huge sums of money to the carrier for a data plan.
I'm sorry, is it just me? What kind of information are you going to put out over FM to cell-phones, in an emergency, that will be life-saving?
Life saving information is already put out over FM in emergencies. Your smartphone probably has an FM receiver. It is disabled because your carrier is money grubbing scum. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio is currently 0. The possibility of you receiving life saving information over your cell phones FM radio if the carrier did not block it is greater than zero. You already have bought and paid for the equipment and your carrier won't let you use it.
I can't understand what all of this defense of the carrier is about. They are stealing from us by not allowing us to use our equipment that we bought and yes, endangering our lives, even if they are doing so by only 1 chance in a billion, they are still endangering our lives by not allowing us access to what we have bought and paid for.
Yeah very pointless. More and more stations are going to cyber jocks who wouldn't have the slightest clue about a tornado warning or flooded roads. The FCC should be more concerned about that. Local TV is much more effective at reporting local emergencies.
I am not aware of any stations in my area that use recorder or remote disc jockeys. The local personalities are definitely local. You can go see them at grocery stores, car lots and what have you if you feel like it.
There are syndicated shows, but if there is a weather or other emergency the local people break in. Some of the stations carry the audio from the local TV when there is a weather emergency.
All of them have to support the Emergency Broadcast System, as do the TV stations. Cell phones don't have to support the Emergency Broadcast System. If the system was more reliable or useful for emergency communications, then they probably would be forced to support it.
Excellent point. Well, lets look at how many lives have been saved by having Data on their phones. And let's looked at how many have been killed because they had data on their phone. Well, looks like we need to disable data too.
Why do you assume FM transmissions would still be working?
In multiple emergencies, I have seen electricity go out, cell service go out (or get overloaded), cable TV go out, but I have never seen FM or local Television go out.
If I was looking at 10 TB of storage, I would guess that I might have a need for maybe a 300 or 400 GB SSD along with platter. I use SSD for only a small fraction of my storage. Basically the OS and files which I need to load fast. In my case that is Flight Simulator files. I have 3 TB of platter drive for everything else. If you are storing media (just guessing, based on the 10 TB), then platter is plenty fast enough for loading.
Most blatant slashvertisment I've ever seen.
Problem is as a consumer I could care less about the speed of SSD drives. I would like to care about the speed but they've not addressed the major problem: price. $1/GB is just insane in a $0.03/GB world. I need capacity far more than I need speed.
Actually, in the SSD world, that is more like $0.40/GB. So this new low price point is only 2.5 times the existing price point. But then , the speed is about triple.
I don't think I would pay 2.5 times as much for 3 times the speed, but maybe other people would.
If you REALLY don't care about speed and are only interested in capacity, then SSDs should not even be on the radar for you. Look at Hard Drives instead.
Yes, that is ridiculous that you would get life in prison for hacking or for smoking pot, and also ridiculous that you would get 4 years in prison for flying near the white house. The airspace belongs to the people.
A charitable organisation has to PROVE it is a charity under the definitions of the tax law rules. A *religious* charitable organisation does not have to give any proof.
Wrong. A Church has to apply for 501(c) just like any other Charitable organization, and is subject to the same tax rules, other than some minor rules about auditing.
I'm sure if you actually looked into the ownership, you will find that the restaurants, coffee shops and bookstores are owned by an organization that is not tax-exempt, although it may have some common ownership with the organization which owns the Church.
As for "nobody else has complained"
You CAN'T complain or you will be thrown in Guantanamo.
Why didn't the TSA refer this to law enforcement?
Nobody wronged the TSA, so the TSA can't call the police. They didn't even witness the crime, they only heard about it afterwards. What needs to happen is for the thousands of men who were sexually assaulted need to bring up criminal charges against the TSA employees and civil charges against the TSA for allowing, enabling and encouraging the sexual assault.
Somewhere in the 1990s I went to visit my parents with my sister and I had an earlier return flight, but my sister ended up needing to get back home earlier. We switched tickets. The airline had no issue whatsoever.
I think GP means "bought and paid for by the public, but not allowed to be used by the public."
What you're saying I haven't experienced since maybe 2-3 months after Vista was released. So please share some more details on what exactly you are doing that makes a UAC prompt appear every time you move the mouse, and which of the many millions of programs on the PC actually require administrator to run?
It doesn't happen to me either because after the first day of dealing with dozens of popups, I turned it off.
I don't think I am going to bother with listing out the millions of programs which require administrator to run. I'm sure there is a site out there somewhere. I know i see far too many programs that SAY they need administrator, but maybe do not. Many programmers run as administrator on their own machines so they put in the documentation that the programs they develop must run as administrator.
Perhaps they should advertise it not as a split screen program, but a "make Windows usable" program, since most Windows programs are written incorrectly, so you get dozens of UAC dialogues every time you move the mouse, and nothing works unless it is run as administrator,
But you still want to look like an asshole. Only egotistical narcissistic assholes use dual monitors.
I used to use a single monitor back when programs were written such that they didn't hog all available screen real estate while still somehow making it necessary for you to do 5 mouseclicks to get to any of the functions of the program. Back when 17" monitors were relatively new, I had a 17" monitor and I could have 3 or 4 terminal sessions going along with several Windows program and could work seemlessly. Now you are constantly paging because every single Windows program is unusable unless it is in full screen even though the number of white pixels is approximately 98%.
Christianity doesn't "lead to" terrorism any more than Islam "Leads to" terrorism. Neither religion condones or supports terrorism. People support terrorism. People lie and manipulate to support terrorism. People falsely use religion to support terrorism. Don't blame religion. Religion isn't even a physical thing capable of thinking for itself. Blame people.
Yup, just like in the real world, if you want to fly airplanes for fun, you get a Private Pilot certificate, and you are subject to numerous restrictions. If you want to get paid to do it, then you have to get a commercial pilot certificate, or face suspension of your license.
The only reason they fine drone operators is because they can't suspend their license because they don't have one.
There's a reason they just sent a bunch of people and equipment to Canada to do their real testing. Because the administration in the US is entirely hostile to this sort of research in practical terms.
There's also a reason that the FAA doesn't give out airworthiness certificates with your breakfast cereal. They don't want you to die.
So how does changing a wall paper (which could easlily be switched back) equate to FELONY which is supposed to mean "serious crime", right up there with murder, rape, bank robery, kid napping, and a number of others.
It doesn't, but that was not the crime. That was one of the byproducts of the crime. The crime was hacking into the computer. Even if you know the password, if you the authorized user for the account used, then that is hacking. If you don't like the law, there are two things you can do. Either 1. Don't break the law. or 2. Appeal to your congresscritter to get the law changed.
That being said, changing desktop wallpaper or other configuration on someone else's computer is extremely rude and not befitting of a member of society.
I'm sure the scientists who study ecosystems do know more than me. That is probably why the alarms are being rung by a journalist and not by the scientists.