I find people talking on cellphones tend to be looking roughly straight ahead.
Actually what I generally find is that when I see a car moving slower that surrounding traffic or weaving just a little into the bicycle lane or a full tire into my lane, a look as I go by confirms the driver is on his or her cell phone. I generally don't see someone eating or drinking in the same situation.
Regarding cellphones... many young people can operate them without looking at the screen or phone, and can drop them in an instant if necessary to grab the wheel. I'm really worried about other stuff more.
Personally anything that distracts you from your main job should be reconsidered. There have been several instances here in Denver where someone was killed because a younger person was texting while driving. But I think that because it's more likely that a person texting is going to be young will skew the stats. My texting prowess is likely much less than someone half my age but I also don't have near the network of people who want to text with me:)
(Oh, and FYI - I'm responsible and pull over when making calls.
Welll, you are partly to blame for backups, since folks slow down for people stopped on the side of the road. Yea, idiot rubberneckers but it still happens.
You like to drink morning coffee huh, on the way to work? Well screw you!)
Nah. I don't even drink coffee. Can't stand the stuff. And it's hard to keep it balanced on the tank. I ride a motorcycle to work 99% of the time (today it's snowing hard so I took the wife's car:( ).
At one place I worked, we had a special line set up for our rep to use that would go through the Embassy and State Department phone lines to get to us for e-mail. The guy was in France and found it a little disconcerting to have the French reps asking him questions about e-mails and phone conversations he'd sent the previous day which is why we got that special line set up.
Honestly dude, those drugs are provided by a pharmaceutical company and have precise amounts of drug and bonding agent. Medicinal Marijuana is grown at each of the clinics or by an authorized grower. Short growth years, different fertilizer, watering schedules all make up differences in taste and potency I'm sure.
Someone has to test the differences between Wild Boulder, Longmont Green, Broomfield Gold, and Erie Black.
Westword is actually a pretty good paper most of the time, much like DC's City Paper, the only other like paper I'm familiar with. I was glad to find it when we moved to Longmont from DC. I think reading reviews of the various clinics would be interesting.
Perhaps I'm just not clueful enough. I'd find jobs on Dice.com that Lockheed-Martin posted, click to apply and it sends me to the HR site where I have to upload or update my resume in the database. There isn't anything on the site to identify which job I'm applying for and no other contact information in the Dice job description.
Their job process really blows though. Unless you know someone or are part of some contract changeover (from SAIC to Lockheed-Martin for example), I don't see how you could get a job.
I've had my resume in their HR database for 10 years now, making updates as I change duties and jobs. I've worked in IT at Johns Hopkins APL, NASA, IBM, and now at a smaller but very interesting telecom type company and never had a single query from Lockheed-Martin.
I actually like O'Reilly's Safari site for my eBooks. It's accessible to my iPhone as well as my various systems. As a consultant, it works better than dragging books around and the books are available for download. It's also very readable as each chapter is a single "page" vs many reference books I have are multi-column.
Having a similar Google site where the books are available whereever I am assuming 'net access plus it's off-line so I can read it when I'm out of range sounds a lot better than the Kindle at least for my purposes.
Java 1.6 Upgrade 15 through 18 does this. If you try to access a site with an invalid or expired cert, it just exits. Unfortunately it doesn't say why, it just exits so there are lots of lookups for WTF Java is doing, is my machine broken, or what? And you can't disable 15 and go back to 14 or earlier as it still bails. You have to uninstall 15 to gain access.
Of course the real problem is that we never updated the certs on our Dell Remote Access Consoles since it worked anyway. Since all the systems are inside the firewall and not accessible to the 'net, no one assigned any priority to taking care of replacing the Dell cert with a company one.
I'll have to see what the process is for getting a cert for the boxes, even if it's self signed.
I'd expect higher level managerial types to be just as likely as the average Joe on the street really. There's nothing technically special about managers. Heck, my wife has been just as close to falling for a phishing scam. Maybe he has a postit note on his monitor too. The one that says "Don't click on links in e-mails!":)
I really prefer to feel a response from the mouse (well trackball) and keyboard. I'm sure people'd get used to whatever mouse was available so selection is good.
I do like the ability on the iPhone where I can expand or contract a web browser window with two fingers. I tried it on my Mac's touchpad and it didn't work (maybe I need to enable it). I don't like the lack of response, or at times too light a touch of the keyboard aspect of the iPhone. It's so light that I'll double enter letters and it's hard to tell if I have the right character unless I'm looking right at the text. Since there's no tactile feel, I can't touch type which means I have to look at the keyboard to make sure I'm in the right place and look at the input field to make sure I'm typing in what I want to type.
Interesting ideas though. The pinch one might be cool for porn:)
I can just imagine the phone calls after this happens. The ISP will be inundated with irate calls from customers and then they'll require assistance cleaning their systems. With the costs of having some geek squad newbie come out, they could just buy a new computer every time the ISP kicks them off the 'net.
Heck, I have applications on my machine that use IE as their display engine (I guess). So when IE gets upgraded, my scanner software stops working. Finally HP addressed it with a patch so it'd use IE 8 but it was annoying for a bit that I couldn't use the HP software to change the default settings.
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If there were a way to use spammers for fuel, I'd have no qualms solving our energy woes that way ...
And people wonder why I refuse to hire sysadmins who used to work for well known spamming companies.
[John]
I too would much prefer a more broad rule.
I find people talking on cellphones tend to be looking roughly straight ahead.
Actually what I generally find is that when I see a car moving slower that surrounding traffic or weaving just a little into the bicycle lane or a full tire into my lane, a look as I go by confirms the driver is on his or her cell phone. I generally don't see someone eating or drinking in the same situation.
Regarding cellphones... many young people can operate them without looking at the screen or phone, and can drop them in an instant if necessary to grab the wheel. I'm really worried about other stuff more.
Personally anything that distracts you from your main job should be reconsidered. There have been several instances here in Denver where someone was killed because a younger person was texting while driving. But I think that because it's more likely that a person texting is going to be young will skew the stats. My texting prowess is likely much less than someone half my age but I also don't have near the network of people who want to text with me :)
(Oh, and FYI - I'm responsible and pull over when making calls.
Welll, you are partly to blame for backups, since folks slow down for people stopped on the side of the road. Yea, idiot rubberneckers but it still happens.
You like to drink morning coffee huh, on the way to work? Well screw you!)
Nah. I don't even drink coffee. Can't stand the stuff. And it's hard to keep it balanced on the tank. I ride a motorcycle to work 99% of the time (today it's snowing hard so I took the wife's car :( ).
[John]
At one place I worked, we had a special line set up for our rep to use that would go through the Embassy and State Department phone lines to get to us for e-mail. The guy was in France and found it a little disconcerting to have the French reps asking him questions about e-mails and phone conversations he'd sent the previous day which is why we got that special line set up.
[John]
Honestly dude, those drugs are provided by a pharmaceutical company and have precise amounts of drug and bonding agent. Medicinal Marijuana is grown at each of the clinics or by an authorized grower. Short growth years, different fertilizer, watering schedules all make up differences in taste and potency I'm sure.
Someone has to test the differences between Wild Boulder, Longmont Green, Broomfield Gold, and Erie Black.
Westword is actually a pretty good paper most of the time, much like DC's City Paper, the only other like paper I'm familiar with. I was glad to find it when we moved to Longmont from DC. I think reading reviews of the various clinics would be interesting.
[John]
Perhaps I'm just not clueful enough. I'd find jobs on Dice.com that Lockheed-Martin posted, click to apply and it sends me to the HR site where I have to upload or update my resume in the database. There isn't anything on the site to identify which job I'm applying for and no other contact information in the Dice job description.
[John]
Their job process really blows though. Unless you know someone or are part of some contract changeover (from SAIC to Lockheed-Martin for example), I don't see how you could get a job.
I've had my resume in their HR database for 10 years now, making updates as I change duties and jobs. I've worked in IT at Johns Hopkins APL, NASA, IBM, and now at a smaller but very interesting telecom type company and never had a single query from Lockheed-Martin.
[John]
I actually like O'Reilly's Safari site for my eBooks. It's accessible to my iPhone as well as my various systems. As a consultant, it works better than dragging books around and the books are available for download. It's also very readable as each chapter is a single "page" vs many reference books I have are multi-column.
Having a similar Google site where the books are available whereever I am assuming 'net access plus it's off-line so I can read it when I'm out of range sounds a lot better than the Kindle at least for my purposes.
[John]
Hey, it was the last time he checked :)
[John]
In case you're reading, your .sig is missing a 't' in the second function.
[John]
Yep. Looking forward to nabbing one and taking it apart :)
[John]
Java 1.6 Upgrade 15 through 18 does this. If you try to access a site with an invalid or expired cert, it just exits. Unfortunately it doesn't say why, it just exits so there are lots of lookups for WTF Java is doing, is my machine broken, or what? And you can't disable 15 and go back to 14 or earlier as it still bails. You have to uninstall 15 to gain access.
Of course the real problem is that we never updated the certs on our Dell Remote Access Consoles since it worked anyway. Since all the systems are inside the firewall and not accessible to the 'net, no one assigned any priority to taking care of replacing the Dell cert with a company one.
I'll have to see what the process is for getting a cert for the boxes, even if it's self signed.
[John]
Well, perhaps the higher level ones like Mueller. He's likely 15 years or so older than me.
[John]
I'd expect higher level managerial types to be just as likely as the average Joe on the street really. There's nothing technically special about managers. Heck, my wife has been just as close to falling for a phishing scam. Maybe he has a postit note on his monitor too. The one that says "Don't click on links in e-mails!" :)
[John]
I thought it was The Department of Phish and Game.
[John]
They changed it for marketing purposes. They can trademark "SyFy" but not "SciFi".
[John]
I really prefer to feel a response from the mouse (well trackball) and keyboard. I'm sure people'd get used to whatever mouse was available so selection is good.
I do like the ability on the iPhone where I can expand or contract a web browser window with two fingers. I tried it on my Mac's touchpad and it didn't work (maybe I need to enable it). I don't like the lack of response, or at times too light a touch of the keyboard aspect of the iPhone. It's so light that I'll double enter letters and it's hard to tell if I have the right character unless I'm looking right at the text. Since there's no tactile feel, I can't touch type which means I have to look at the keyboard to make sure I'm in the right place and look at the input field to make sure I'm typing in what I want to type.
Interesting ideas though. The pinch one might be cool for porn :)
[John]
I can just imagine the phone calls after this happens. The ISP will be inundated with irate calls from customers and then they'll require assistance cleaning their systems. With the costs of having some geek squad newbie come out, they could just buy a new computer every time the ISP kicks them off the 'net.
[John]
Yep. And Windows. Heck, maybe even OS X :)
[John]
Or at 500 lbs (assuming 150 lbs of non-fat and 350 lbs of fat).
[John]
Spamassassin :) Here are the counts from my procmail log since I started on my current mail server.
Mon/Year Mail Spam
Oct 2006 686 281
Nov 2006 1661 694
Dec 2006 2029 757
Jan 2007 1496 616
Feb 2007 1613 650
Mar 2007 1979 842
Apr 2007 1956 778
May 2007 1846 755
Jun 2007 1810 731
Jul 2007 1978 25
Aug 2007 2249 0
Sep 2007 2229 1393
Oct 2007 2187 1916
Nov 2007 2378 2035
Dec 2007 2381 2143
Jan 2008 2453 2005
Feb 2008 2671 2294
Mar 2008 3084 2687
Apr 2008 2971 2547
May 2008 3289 2955
Jun 2008 3346 3010
Jul 2008 2983 2592
Aug 2008 4951 4579
Sep 2008 3911 3546
Oct 2008 2189 1830
Nov 2008 789 493
Dec 2008 556 271
Jan 2009 1231 833
Feb 2009 2017 1657
Mar 2009 2683 2199
Apr 2009 4020 3562
May 2009 4936 4519
Jun 2009 3108 2216
Jul 2009 3855 3330
Huh. I just took a look and I see your numbers. A little deeper shows:
1954 rate Income 2008 Equiv.
up to $2,000.00 20% up to $75,000.00
$2,000.01 - $4,000.00 22% $75,000.01 - $150,000.00
Looks to me like we're paying a bit more than we were back in 1954.
Top income tax rate is:
$200,000.01 or more 91% $7,500,000.00 or more
There isn't a specific page for 1969 though. Still, it seems that comparing levels closer to my pay shows I'm paying 33% compared to 22% back in 1954.
[John]
Same with Java or Adobe and the Yahoo! toolbar.
[John]
Heck, I have applications on my machine that use IE as their display engine (I guess). So when IE gets upgraded, my scanner software stops working. Finally HP addressed it with a patch so it'd use IE 8 but it was annoying for a bit that I couldn't use the HP software to change the default settings.
[John]
Role playing games.
I can run the same module with three groups and get different results each time :)
[John]
The first dBase was dBase II (from Ashton-Tate) to indicate it was more stable than the non-existant dBase I (Vulcan perhaps :) ).
[John]