> Can anyone tell me why someone wouldn't want the.xxx domain to happen? What possible downside is there to it?
Presuming your question is genuine....
A TLD enforces a single global definition, but the definition of pornography is very much a local thing. For example, in some portions of the world (e.g. France), bare breasts are acceptable on the beach and in other portions of the world (e.g. Saudi Arabia), an uncovered face can be a crime. In the end, it is impossible to get global consensus.
This is why commercial filtering systems include more granular descriptions, such as "incidental nudity" and "provocative attire".
If you are required to provide equipment, ask for a letter documenting this fact and then purchase equipment dedicated to the task. It is likely that the equipment will then be deductible from your taxes as an "unreimbursed business expense".
If you are required to check email from home, ask the IT staff to provide a solution that complies with their security requirements. Perhaps they can come up with a remote desktop solution, like Citrix or that actually does a good job at keeping the PII on the corporate assets.
If not required, then don't do it. All it does is puts you at substantial risk if a data breach were to occur (even if it is not your fault).
Personally, I do ALL my home-based work using remote desktop to my office computer (over a VPN and with SecurID). The only "company-owned" thing you will find on my personally owned machine is the VPN client itself. Even then, the vendor has the unconfigured client available as a free download.
Whitelisting executables has been around for a long time. There is general agreement that white listing is far superior to black listing. The problem is that to effectively use a white list, you need to become much more knowledgeable about your environment than is required with a blacklist.
Back in the dark ages when I managed a bunch of Unix servers (of the million-dollar variety) at a university, we routinely used tricks such as mounting/tmp "nodev,noexec,nosuid" and using tripwire on system directories. This worked well because the manufacturer supported the configuration and anticipated that it would be used this way.
This is difficult on Windows for two reasons. First, single person machines are not typically run with restricted accounts (Ignoring, for the moment UAC). Secondly, the filesystem layout was not designed from the start with a strict separation of data verses executable content. Adding either of these characteristics without hurting backwards compatibility (and therefore your happy customers) is nearly impossible. Here is a link to a fairly knowledgeable guy's experience with a few of the Windows tools a few years ago. http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/antivirus/index.html
Seems to me that it would be much easier and cheaper for the courts to grant them a new name and new identity at the time of their release.
This would prevent the need for altering historical facts while simultaneously allowing the courts to control the connection between their former criminal past and their new reformed future.
For those looking in from outside the US borders, an initiative petition is a document filed by a group of ordinary citizens asking that a particular issue be put up for election. Amongst other things, it is required that a certain percentage of voters sign the initiative indicating that they feel it should come up for a vote.
I have signed referendums and initiatives both for causes I intend to vote for and for causes I intend to vote against. My signature on an initiative is an indication that I agree that we should vote on it. It is not an indication of which way I will vote.
TFA states "signers of the petition fear hostile confrontations". If true, this must be addressed. The courts seem like a good place to determine if the fear is well founded, and if so, the legislature ought to figure out how to address it.
BTW, I am not a resident of Washington, so my name can not appear on this initiative. Please don't confront me hostily:-).
The best "universal standard of structured cabling" is called conduit. I'm not too sure what cabling will come down the 'pike, but i am pretty sure I will be able to fish it though a conduit behind the wall.
Two conduits in each office that went to a cable tray above the hallway ceiling was my only IT "must-have" when I participated in a building design 15 years ago. During this time, 10 Mbps, 100Mbps, 1G, 10G, coax, fiber, various twisted pairs and even token have come and gone from favor. The good-old conduit can hold them all (but not all at once:-).
However, I think that the real trouble in the US is that they don't have a consistent electoral system. They have 51 individual systems for each state (or is it more based upon county?).
The other issue is that they seem to vote for everything from the street cleaner to judges.....
Usually, it is by state, but it can vary by county, as it did in Ohio in 2008. The real complexity is that each voting precinct (typically 1000-ish people) can potentially have a unique ballot. In 2008, Cuyahoga County had 4,317 different versions of the ballot for different precincts Cuyohoga is the largest of 88 counties in Ohio.
I have never quite figured out why we don't put printers at the polling location and print out the ballots as we sign in. Then, we fill in the scantron bubbles on the ballot and drop it in the ballot box.
No unused ballots to discard, last minute changes can be accommodated and it opens the possibility to build a system that allows me to vote in a location that is not within my voting precinct.
Integrity issues would be similar to those of the current ballots (use special forms to prevent forgeries and keep close tabs on the stock). With spare hardware and locally-available PDFs of the available ballots, it should be pretty easy to address potential disaster/failure scenarios.
.... and possibly change their vote, or at least read their selections.
The headphone jack is one of the few advantages electronic voting machines have over paper/scantron ballots. It enables the illiterate and the blind to vote without the need to trust a third party. Of course, this does not mean everyone has to use the EVM. The EVM could be demoted to the role of simply printing on a manually-fed paper/scantron ballot that is then put in the ballot box.
If your fluorescent flickers like a strobe light (as opposed to like a movie screen), You probably have either defective bulbs or a defective ballast. Both items are easily replaceable.
Although it is most likely the ballast, Try replacing bulbs first because it is easier and you can probably rob known-good bulbs from a nearby fixture.
If the problem is the ballast and the fixtures are "older", you might consider replacing the entire fixture with one that has an electronic ballast, a chromed reflector and that uses T-5 bulbs (5/8 inch or 1 cm diameter). They are significantly more power efficient than the tubes of olden-days.
One of the places I work is replacing all its fixtures that are on 40 or more hours a week with T-5 fixtures simply because the energy savings over the older fixtures will pay-back before the new bulbs burn out.
In my US town, trash is picked up once a week at every house, but recycling is picked up only every other week at some houses.
This makes sense to me. Approximately 30% of a typical household waste stream is acceptable to most recycling facilities. Another large chunk would be acceptable to composters, but we don't typically collect compost in the US.
"Every week" for garbage is because it tends to stink after a while. Therefore, households and health departments want the cities to get rid of it more often. Dry recyclables tend to not have this problem, so the pickup schedule can be reduced for better efficiency (picking up fuller containers less often).
"Some houses" is an unfortunate economic side effect of a free-market economy. If recycling were equally convenient and included as part of the refuse fee, your local government would find that people tend to be very cooperative and the volumes and participation would both rise dramatically. My city has discovered just that. It is impossible for me to purchase trash pickup (it is actually part of my taxes) without also getting a recycling bin and having its pickup included.
However, it does cost more to run two trucks, causing some to charge separately. When this happens, households need to make the decision to spend more money to "do the right thing". When measured against other uses for the money, sometimes the other things win.
I'm an I.T. expert, not an educational expert. I can't tell you if if computers in a classroom are better than computers, in a lab, or if computers will help the teachers teach better or if they will help the students learn better. These questions are best answered by the educators.
I can, however, offer my expertise on three fronts:
1) You don't know what will fit your needs in 10 years, so it is best to design a flexible infrastructure. Who knows what cabling you will need, what WiFI spacing should be, etc. Things that will help long into the future are a hanging ceiling in the hallway (so that you can run better cabling later), conduit from above the ceiling to at least two wall plates in *every* room, and closets with electricity every 70 meters. The closets can be used for storage or janitorial, but I.T. will need about a cubic meter for a wall-mounted cabinet with electronics.
2) Investing in thin clients (as the story suggests) also means investing in permanent (and potentially on-site) IT support staff. Thin clients don't eliminate support needs, they centralize and specialize it. They offer the advantage of a single system to maintain, but at the expense of a single failure (hardware or grey-matter) causing wide-spread impact that will impact immediate academic needs.
3) Hire someone who has many years of experience installing networking systems, alarm systems, telephones, etc. in an academic environment to review any solution the architect designs.
I find a lot of folks in the IT trenches tend to be reactive rather than proactive....Face it, what kind of attention do you get when your servers never fail? When you never lose a database?...Nothing.
The undying appreciation of my wife and children because I get to spend uninterrupted evenings and weekends with them. To me, that is quite a bit more than "Nothing.".
Part of being a true professional is knowing how to manage resources so that you remain in control of your schedule.
> 2000/250 = 8 MPG.
In the parent article, it was 250 DOLLARS, so the correct unit of measure would be 8 MP$.
Using today's national average gas price (from gasbuddy.com) of $3.669, ToMuchToDo is using 68 gallons a month to go 2000 miles, which is 29 MPG. By chance, ToMuchToDo, does your "hybrid" say "V6" on the trunk lid?
Perhaps the CA ought to include your name and credit card number in the certificate itself, so that I can also verify that you are who you say you are:-).
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> Can anyone tell me why someone wouldn't want the .xxx domain to happen? What possible downside is there to it?
Presuming your question is genuine....
A TLD enforces a single global definition, but the definition of pornography is very much a local thing. For example, in some portions of the world (e.g. France), bare breasts are acceptable on the beach and in other portions of the world (e.g. Saudi Arabia), an uncovered face can be a crime. In the end, it is impossible to get global consensus.
This is why commercial filtering systems include more granular descriptions, such as "incidental nudity" and "provocative attire".
If you are required to provide equipment, ask for a letter documenting this fact and then purchase equipment dedicated to the task. It is likely that the equipment will then be deductible from your taxes as an "unreimbursed business expense".
If you are required to check email from home, ask the IT staff to provide a solution that complies with their security requirements. Perhaps they can come up with a remote desktop solution, like Citrix or that actually does a good job at keeping the PII on the corporate assets.
If not required, then don't do it. All it does is puts you at substantial risk if a data breach were to occur (even if it is not your fault).
Personally, I do ALL my home-based work using remote desktop to my office computer (over a VPN and with SecurID). The only "company-owned" thing you will find on my personally owned machine is the VPN client itself. Even then, the vendor has the unconfigured client available as a free download.
Where might I find one of these wives with the ability to natively run x86 code?
Slashdot.
Whitelisting executables has been around for a long time. There is general agreement that white listing is far superior to black listing. The problem is that to effectively use a white list, you need to become much more knowledgeable about your environment than is required with a blacklist. Back in the dark ages when I managed a bunch of Unix servers (of the million-dollar variety) at a university, we routinely used tricks such as mounting /tmp "nodev,noexec,nosuid" and using tripwire on system directories. This worked well because the manufacturer supported the configuration and anticipated that it would be used this way.
This is difficult on Windows for two reasons. First, single person machines are not typically run with restricted accounts (Ignoring, for the moment UAC). Secondly, the filesystem layout was not designed from the start with a strict separation of data verses executable content. Adding either of these characteristics without hurting backwards compatibility (and therefore your happy customers) is nearly impossible. Here is a link to a fairly knowledgeable guy's experience with a few of the Windows tools a few years ago. http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/antivirus/index.html
Either that, or it is a RF-transparent plastic that covers the antenna, or perhaps, it can be removed to access the sim card.
Society has no obligation to break windows so that the window maker has a job.
Nah, M$ takes care of that all by itself :-).
Mark Cuban may find it a bit difficult to get the site in Alexia's #1 position to remove themselves from their own list.
Most people [...] wouldn't even think of standing up to authority like this.
And most people don't work for someone who's job it is to change the way that authority behaves. This is a powerful ace that Steve had up his sleeve.
Seems to me that it would be much easier and cheaper for the courts to grant them a new name and new identity at the time of their release.
This would prevent the need for altering historical facts while simultaneously allowing the courts to control the connection between their former criminal past and their new reformed future.
For those looking in from outside the US borders, an initiative petition is a document filed by a group of ordinary citizens asking that a particular issue be put up for election. Amongst other things, it is required that a certain percentage of voters sign the initiative indicating that they feel it should come up for a vote.
I have signed referendums and initiatives both for causes I intend to vote for and for causes I intend to vote against. My signature on an initiative is an indication that I agree that we should vote on it. It is not an indication of which way I will vote.
TFA states "signers of the petition fear hostile confrontations". If true, this must be addressed. The courts seem like a good place to determine if the fear is well founded, and if so, the legislature ought to figure out how to address it.
BTW, I am not a resident of Washington, so my name can not appear on this initiative. Please don't confront me hostily :-).
Not that I am a big fan of the DMCA, but this seems like a perfect example of where its Title II provision is intended to be used.
If White Oak Software started by filing a take-down notice and ZD does not comply (or contest it), then damages are fair-game in my book.
The best "universal standard of structured cabling" is called conduit. I'm not too sure what cabling will come down the 'pike, but i am pretty sure I will be able to fish it though a conduit behind the wall.
Two conduits in each office that went to a cable tray above the hallway ceiling was my only IT "must-have" when I participated in a building design 15 years ago. During this time, 10 Mbps, 100Mbps, 1G, 10G, coax, fiber, various twisted pairs and even token have come and gone from favor. The good-old conduit can hold them all (but not all at once :-).
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However, I think that the real trouble in the US is that they don't have a consistent electoral system. They have 51 individual systems for each state (or is it more based upon county?).
The other issue is that they seem to vote for everything from the street cleaner to judges.....
Usually, it is by state, but it can vary by county, as it did in Ohio in 2008. The real complexity is that each voting precinct (typically 1000-ish people) can potentially have a unique ballot. In 2008, Cuyahoga County had 4,317 different versions of the ballot for different precincts Cuyohoga is the largest of 88 counties in Ohio.
I have never quite figured out why we don't put printers at the polling location and print out the ballots as we sign in. Then, we fill in the scantron bubbles on the ballot and drop it in the ballot box.
No unused ballots to discard, last minute changes can be accommodated and it opens the possibility to build a system that allows me to vote in a location that is not within my voting precinct.
Integrity issues would be similar to those of the current ballots (use special forms to prevent forgeries and keep close tabs on the stock). With spare hardware and locally-available PDFs of the available ballots, it should be pretty easy to address potential disaster/failure scenarios.
The concept of different ballot layouts doesn't compute here. There's one ballot. The candidates are in alphabetical order.
Alphabetical order would give a perceived advantage to Aadam Aant of the Apple Party.
...it's easy to assist blind people...
.... and possibly change their vote, or at least read their selections.
The headphone jack is one of the few advantages electronic voting machines have over paper/scantron ballots. It enables the illiterate and the blind to vote without the need to trust a third party. Of course, this does not mean everyone has to use the EVM. The EVM could be demoted to the role of simply printing on a manually-fed paper/scantron ballot that is then put in the ballot box.
Now I need a lead foil hat...
Just don't let your kids chew on your lead foil hat.
If your fluorescent flickers like a strobe light (as opposed to like a movie screen), You probably have either defective bulbs or a defective ballast. Both items are easily replaceable.
Although it is most likely the ballast, Try replacing bulbs first because it is easier and you can probably rob known-good bulbs from a nearby fixture.
If the problem is the ballast and the fixtures are "older", you might consider replacing the entire fixture with one that has an electronic ballast, a chromed reflector and that uses T-5 bulbs (5/8 inch or 1 cm diameter). They are significantly more power efficient than the tubes of olden-days.
One of the places I work is replacing all its fixtures that are on 40 or more hours a week with T-5 fixtures simply because the energy savings over the older fixtures will pay-back before the new bulbs burn out.
In my US town, trash is picked up once a week at every house, but recycling is picked up only every other week at some houses.
This makes sense to me. Approximately 30% of a typical household waste stream is acceptable to most recycling facilities. Another large chunk would be acceptable to composters, but we don't typically collect compost in the US.
"Every week" for garbage is because it tends to stink after a while. Therefore, households and health departments want the cities to get rid of it more often. Dry recyclables tend to not have this problem, so the pickup schedule can be reduced for better efficiency (picking up fuller containers less often).
"Some houses" is an unfortunate economic side effect of a free-market economy. If recycling were equally convenient and included as part of the refuse fee, your local government would find that people tend to be very cooperative and the volumes and participation would both rise dramatically. My city has discovered just that. It is impossible for me to purchase trash pickup (it is actually part of my taxes) without also getting a recycling bin and having its pickup included.
However, it does cost more to run two trucks, causing some to charge separately. When this happens, households need to make the decision to spend more money to "do the right thing". When measured against other uses for the money, sometimes the other things win.
Use the $1000 to establish a college fund. The odds that your child will use it and that it will help your child are much better.
I'm an I.T. expert, not an educational expert. I can't tell you if if computers in a classroom are better than computers, in a lab, or if computers will help the teachers teach better or if they will help the students learn better. These questions are best answered by the educators.
I can, however, offer my expertise on three fronts:
1) You don't know what will fit your needs in 10 years, so it is best to design a flexible infrastructure. Who knows what cabling you will need, what WiFI spacing should be, etc. Things that will help long into the future are a hanging ceiling in the hallway (so that you can run better cabling later), conduit from above the ceiling to at least two wall plates in *every* room, and closets with electricity every 70 meters. The closets can be used for storage or janitorial, but I.T. will need about a cubic meter for a wall-mounted cabinet with electronics.
2) Investing in thin clients (as the story suggests) also means investing in permanent (and potentially on-site) IT support staff. Thin clients don't eliminate support needs, they centralize and specialize it. They offer the advantage of a single system to maintain, but at the expense of a single failure (hardware or grey-matter) causing wide-spread impact that will impact immediate academic needs.
3) Hire someone who has many years of experience installing networking systems, alarm systems, telephones, etc. in an academic environment to review any solution the architect designs.
I find a lot of folks in the IT trenches tend to be reactive rather than proactive....Face it, what kind of attention do you get when your servers never fail? When you never lose a database?...Nothing.
The undying appreciation of my wife and children because I get to spend uninterrupted evenings and weekends with them. To me, that is quite a bit more than "Nothing.". Part of being a true professional is knowing how to manage resources so that you remain in control of your schedule.
> 2000/250 = 8 MPG. In the parent article, it was 250 DOLLARS, so the correct unit of measure would be 8 MP$. Using today's national average gas price (from gasbuddy.com) of $3.669, ToMuchToDo is using 68 gallons a month to go 2000 miles, which is 29 MPG. By chance, ToMuchToDo, does your "hybrid" say "V6" on the trunk lid?
Perhaps the CA ought to include your name and credit card number in the certificate itself, so that I can also verify that you are who you say you are :-).
In my area, the red light cameras photograph your rear plate. Removing your front plate would not do much to help around here.