All residents and visitors to Brisbane suburbs The Gap, Enoggera, Mt Coot-tha and parts of Keperra have been warned not to drink tap water after the collapse of the roof into a reservoir. And all their water tanks have blown away, too.
Though your suggestion appears attractive, I don't think it would be financially viable for anyone to build a reticulated water system (and keep building it, since the SE corner is expanding rapidly) without guaranteed funds coming in, and people may be a little hesitant to pay $400 a year (and more) for a water system they may never need to use. I wonder how many people would think to themselves "I have to pay about $400 a year for filters. I may as well stop that and just use town water.
I like the idea of independence from The Man, but Big Engineering also appeals to me, as it does to many slashdotters. There's just something attractive about making a Big System, hitting the Big Red Button and having it Just Work. Much more appealing than changing filter cartridges at home, fishing dead pigeons out of the water system etc.
It would have been good to have a house set up for tank and/or mains, but then a lot of things would have been a good idea. We built a house recently and I briefly considered many things like this, but dealing with a project home builder doesn't leave you much wiggle room.
Or get a spam filter (like the nice one in Mail) which trashes 99% of the spam I get, leaving me to delete one every now and then.
This phishing filter will work for users on the same principle: protect users from a lot of phishing expeditions, leaving them to deal with the few that slip through. This also helps stop people from getting "security fatigue" that comes from being hit by crap every time they log on. Same with spam - if spam filters weren't in place, a lot of people would give up on email altogether.
Anti-phishing tech isn't the be-all and end-all. Education is the key to making it all work.
Filtration. Many people have this anyway. You also get a choice about fluoride. We could also deliver drinking water from the dam but require garden watering, toilets etc to be from the tank.
Dunno if you'll get around to reading this...
Filtration.
Here's what I think. Reticulated water systems were introduced as away of supplying fresh, clean water cheaply to a population who were largely pretty stupid when it came to things like bacterial loads and chemical contamination.
That's why they employed smart engineers to build them. Now that the systems are in place, it's tough to scale them back.
While the intelligence of the population about these things may be better, there's enough idiots (living in the... well, we all know which regions they live in:-) ) to make reticulated water as primary supply A Good Thing.
Add to that, it's cheap. Certainly cheaper than than a filtration system. Plus, how often will Joe Dolt change the cartridges?
Water tanks as a primary supply are a great idea if the user is a motivated user.
So rural conservatives had more than one adequate solution then.:)
Damn straight. That's something I've learned over the years - farmers are (on-the-whole) practical, can-do people. They can see a problem for what it is and see a solution.
One advantage of tanks (as a requirement for new buildings) over a new dam is that the water supply scales automatically with the population.
Problems with tanks:
- you can't get a tank big enough for a multi-storey dwelling (like a 20 storey place with 100 apartments).
- city-collected roof water would be polluted. No two ways about it, it wouldn't be good to drink. We only got rid of leaded petrol recently, so up until then there would have been dangerous levels of lead in the water
- reticulated water supplied by the local council actually does work and it can be done cheaply. It's only when there are ridiculous political interferences that we end up with the situation we have now
Anybody with a rural background, such as myself, could have told them that 20 years ago if they were willing to listen.
Anybody with a rural background (like, say, the National Party) would have said: "population booming, droughts on and off, let's build a new dam or two to cope."
The Wolfdene dam was all but ready to go, then in 1989 the ALP was voted in. First act: cancel the Wolfdene dam.
Quote from The Australian in early 2007: In December 1989 the first act of Kevin Rudd, the new chief of staff to Queensland's incoming Labor premier, was to cancel plans for the Wolfdene dam. This was despite expert advice that such a dam would be needed for southeast Queensland in the early 21st century.
This was done to appease environmentalists who are dead against new dams anywhere. What we have now is an expensive water recycling plant ready to come on line. Such a pity it burns all those nasty fossil fuels to get anything done
I don't really care where iTunes puts the music as long as it's findable via the iTunes interface. I can find it easily and sort it sixteen different ways within iTunes, which is more than I can do in the filesystem itself. Multiple playlists, 'smart' playlists based on criteria I set, it's all there. If I really do need to see the file (say, for converting to AIFF in QT Pro to drop into FCP - why is FCP so snobbish about MP3s?) then I can find it in iTunes and 'reveal in Finder'.
I voted for them at the last election, based mainly on their other policies. I knew that the filtering was something they were going to do, but if I had of know it was going to be this bad, I would of changed my vote.
I tried it under 10.4.11 using Safari 3.1.2 and Firefox 3.0.1 and Flash whatever-the-latest-beta-is (I downloaded it to try and get a Vimeo video to stop stuttering - no go:-( ).
While the demo tab is open, it takes over the clipboard. Close the tab and its control over the clipboard is released. Both browsers were OK. No quitting browsers, no restarting my Mac. Maybe 10.5 is different, or maybe you have a different version of Flash. Sort of vindicates Steve's lack of a clipboard on the iPhone though...
2021:
Apple:iPod femto: Plutonium batteries. 1PB. iPhone XI: 6G. Language translation now includes Swahili.
Naysayers:Neural interface is still HD. iPhone can't reach Pluto. Still expensive.
Plutonium batteries? I bet you still have to send it in to Apple to replace them.
The opposite, I think. The parole board isn't there to second-guess the jury, or give you time off "just in case". They assume that because you were found guilty, you are guilty and your protestations to the contrary are simply because you refuse to face up to the fact you are guilty, so you can't yet be paroled.
This means, of course, that if you are innocent, it sucks to be you when you front up to a parole board.
Disclaimer: I garnered my knowledge from someone who was innocent but in jail, and also the movie Double Jeopardy, starring Ashley Judd.
I was at a playground with my family recently. I was getting down and dirty (and sandy) with Mr 3 and Miss 2 digging and moving and building and stuff.
There was a parent nearby using his phone in a fairly self-absorbed way (I assumed email). No matter what his kids did, they couldn't get his attention. When he did finally deign to help, the wheels fell off pretty quickly and he just sat down to do his thing again.
Nearby was a lady with a coffee and a newspaper. Her kid was forlornly digging at her feet.
I know I shouldn't judge by seeing a snapshot, but I couldn't help thinking that they were both missing out on some great opportunities.
Even if I put the kids on one of those money-swallowing rides at the shops, I'll be right there making faces at them every time they come around. They'd rather see me there with them than 10m away window shopping. I know this from firsthand experience:-/
None of this has come naturally to me - I'm not one of those "instant dad" types. But little by little, they have taught me to me a better dad. Usually:-)
To put the argument on the other side of the court - how about porn? The one movie market where the large retailers and the home producers are on close to equal footing. Reason being - no script, no special effects, no huge budget.
Hunka Lurv: You want special effects, baby? Getta load of THIS special effect!
Tiddy Triplets: Oh, Hunka, you're just AWESOME!!! And you have a huge BUDGET too!!! Oooohhhh!!!
HD Communications Corp has introduced a wireless network extender system that allows users to bridge a WiFi up to five miles. The $318 HD26200 system, which requires direct line of sight, is a complete outdoor wireless network bridge in the 802.11 b/g 2.4GHz band that uses two high performance Ubiquiti network radios with integrated 17dbi dual polarity antennas. The HD26200 bridge is powered over ethernet, allowing a single outdoor CAT5 cable to bring both data and power to the radios. "Since the introduction of WiFi radios people have tried to push the range of consumer level products by adding external antennas, RF cables, and WiFi amplifiers. The cost of those devices often totaled well over $500 and that was after they had already bought two D-Link or Linksys radios for $75 each," said Don Davis, President and CEO of HD Communications Corp. "Now they can have an FCC certified wireless bridge that will work better, look better, is easier to configure, and easier to install for less than $320."
On its website, the company claims that WiFi links can be established over distances of 50km (30 miles) based on clear, unobstructed line of sight in ideal RF conditions, but that typical links were between five and eight miles, short of its 5 mile claim in the press release. In addition, it said the system can provide significantly increased throughput (up to 50+Mbps TCP/IP).
The HD26200 does require a direct line of sight between the two locations; however, HD Communications says it has additional products for non-line of sight situations and promised to introduce additional wireless bridge solutions later this summer.
Great. First I learn Newton is only an approximation, atomic theory is only an approximation, Gas *laws* are an approximation and now even Einstein (who I can't understand anyway) is only an approximation as well.
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Hard core porn is banned in the states. Canberra and the NT are territories.
Mind you, what passes for "hard core" in the Territories is nothing compared to what you can find with three seconds searching the net.
Even movies of consensual urophilia is banned in Oz. I heard. From an acquaintance. That I don't really know.
:-)
I'll see your HA! and raise you a hypothetical:
All residents and visitors to Brisbane suburbs The Gap, Enoggera, Mt Coot-tha and parts of Keperra have been warned not to drink tap water after the collapse of the roof into a reservoir. And all their water tanks have blown away, too.
Though your suggestion appears attractive, I don't think it would be financially viable for anyone to build a reticulated water system (and keep building it, since the SE corner is expanding rapidly) without guaranteed funds coming in, and people may be a little hesitant to pay $400 a year (and more) for a water system they may never need to use. I wonder how many people would think to themselves "I have to pay about $400 a year for filters. I may as well stop that and just use town water.
I like the idea of independence from The Man, but Big Engineering also appeals to me, as it does to many slashdotters. There's just something attractive about making a Big System, hitting the Big Red Button and having it Just Work. Much more appealing than changing filter cartridges at home, fishing dead pigeons out of the water system etc.
It would have been good to have a house set up for tank and/or mains, but then a lot of things would have been a good idea. We built a house recently and I briefly considered many things like this, but dealing with a project home builder doesn't leave you much wiggle room.
Want to get rid of spam? Hit the delete key.
Or get a spam filter (like the nice one in Mail) which trashes 99% of the spam I get, leaving me to delete one every now and then.
This phishing filter will work for users on the same principle: protect users from a lot of phishing expeditions, leaving them to deal with the few that slip through. This also helps stop people from getting "security fatigue" that comes from being hit by crap every time they log on. Same with spam - if spam filters weren't in place, a lot of people would give up on email altogether.
Anti-phishing tech isn't the be-all and end-all. Education is the key to making it all work.
Filtration. Many people have this anyway. You also get a choice about fluoride. We could also deliver drinking water from the dam but require garden watering, toilets etc to be from the tank.
Dunno if you'll get around to reading this ...
Filtration.
Here's what I think. Reticulated water systems were introduced as away of supplying fresh, clean water cheaply to a population who were largely pretty stupid when it came to things like bacterial loads and chemical contamination.
That's why they employed smart engineers to build them. Now that the systems are in place, it's tough to scale them back.
While the intelligence of the population about these things may be better, there's enough idiots (living in the ... well, we all know which regions they live in :-) ) to make reticulated water as primary supply A Good Thing.
Add to that, it's cheap. Certainly cheaper than than a filtration system. Plus, how often will Joe Dolt change the cartridges?
Water tanks as a primary supply are a great idea if the user is a motivated user.
I know that feeling about the kids. I read quite a few interesting titles now like "How big is a pig?" and "Mr Brown an moo, can you?"
Awww, come on. Do it with the voice, do it with the voice.
So rural conservatives had more than one adequate solution then. :)
Damn straight. That's something I've learned over the years - farmers are (on-the-whole) practical, can-do people. They can see a problem for what it is and see a solution.
One advantage of tanks (as a requirement for new buildings) over a new dam is that the water supply scales automatically with the population.
Problems with tanks:
- you can't get a tank big enough for a multi-storey dwelling (like a 20 storey place with 100 apartments).
- city-collected roof water would be polluted. No two ways about it, it wouldn't be good to drink. We only got rid of leaded petrol recently, so up until then there would have been dangerous levels of lead in the water
- reticulated water supplied by the local council actually does work and it can be done cheaply. It's only when there are ridiculous political interferences that we end up with the situation we have now
That's because we're alphabetically above Austria.
Anybody with a rural background, such as myself, could have told them that 20 years ago if they were willing to listen.
Anybody with a rural background (like, say, the National Party) would have said: "population booming, droughts on and off, let's build a new dam or two to cope."
The Wolfdene dam was all but ready to go, then in 1989 the ALP was voted in.
First act: cancel the Wolfdene dam.
Quote from The Australian in early 2007:
In December 1989 the first act of Kevin Rudd, the new chief of staff to Queensland's incoming Labor premier, was to cancel plans for the Wolfdene dam. This was despite expert advice that such a dam would be needed for southeast Queensland in the early 21st century.
This was done to appease environmentalists who are dead against new dams anywhere. What we have now is an expensive water recycling plant ready to come on line. Such a pity it burns all those nasty fossil fuels to get anything done
You can pretty much kill your last brain cell with alcohol.
Nonsense. Alcohol isn't braining my harm!
I reckon I could 0wn you in DM-Turbine.
And if you do choose to vaccinate, why not just give them one at a time instead of in a drug cocktail?
You don't have kids, do you? Little hint: the fewer needles they have, the less it hurts and the less they cry.
I don't really care where iTunes puts the music as long as it's findable via the iTunes interface. I can find it easily and sort it sixteen different ways within iTunes, which is more than I can do in the filesystem itself. Multiple playlists, 'smart' playlists based on criteria I set, it's all there. If I really do need to see the file (say, for converting to AIFF in QT Pro to drop into FCP - why is FCP so snobbish about MP3s?) then I can find it in iTunes and 'reveal in Finder'.
I voted for them at the last election, based mainly on their other policies. I knew that the filtering was something they were going to do, but if I had of know it was going to be this bad, I would of changed my vote.
It said it in their election material. That and much much more. Thanks for that. http://www.alp.org.au/download/now/labors_plan_for_cyber_safety.pdf
I tried it under 10.4.11 using Safari 3.1.2 and Firefox 3.0.1 and Flash whatever-the-latest-beta-is (I downloaded it to try and get a Vimeo video to stop stuttering - no go :-( ).
While the demo tab is open, it takes over the clipboard. Close the tab and its control over the clipboard is released. Both browsers were OK. No quitting browsers, no restarting my Mac. Maybe 10.5 is different, or maybe you have a different version of Flash. Sort of vindicates Steve's lack of a clipboard on the iPhone though...
I'm pretty sure my iPods ear buds are an ecosystem. Creatures in there have probably evolved a system of government by now, too.
Can this one also star Tommy Lee? He's so hot right now. So is Hansel.
No, that's your score.
The opposite, I think. The parole board isn't there to second-guess the jury, or give you time off "just in case". They assume that because you were found guilty, you are guilty and your protestations to the contrary are simply because you refuse to face up to the fact you are guilty, so you can't yet be paroled.
This means, of course, that if you are innocent, it sucks to be you when you front up to a parole board.
Disclaimer: I garnered my knowledge from someone who was innocent but in jail, and also the movie Double Jeopardy, starring Ashley Judd.
>>>Don't underestimate Steve Jobs, you're talking about the mastermind who after 30 years has managed to dominate an entire 3% of the computer market.
Even though I'm a diehard Mac user, that was bloody funny. Inaccurate, but as a soundbite, bloody funny.
>>>Gee, I wonder how separated people found each other before cell phones...
They didn't. I'm still looking for my mother after a harrowing shopping trip in 1977.
I was at a playground with my family recently. I was getting down and dirty (and sandy) with Mr 3 and Miss 2 digging and moving and building and stuff.
:-/
:-)
There was a parent nearby using his phone in a fairly self-absorbed way (I assumed email). No matter what his kids did, they couldn't get his attention. When he did finally deign to help, the wheels fell off pretty quickly and he just sat down to do his thing again.
Nearby was a lady with a coffee and a newspaper. Her kid was forlornly digging at her feet.
I know I shouldn't judge by seeing a snapshot, but I couldn't help thinking that they were both missing out on some great opportunities.
Even if I put the kids on one of those money-swallowing rides at the shops, I'll be right there making faces at them every time they come around. They'd rather see me there with them than 10m away window shopping. I know this from firsthand experience
None of this has come naturally to me - I'm not one of those "instant dad" types. But little by little, they have taught me to me a better dad. Usually
Hunka Lurv: You want special effects, baby? Getta load of THIS special effect!
Tiddy Triplets: Oh, Hunka, you're just AWESOME!!! And you have a huge BUDGET too!!! Oooohhhh!!!
Director: more lube on set
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/22/bridge.links.wifi.for.5mi/
HD Communications Corp has introduced a wireless network extender system that allows users to bridge a WiFi up to five miles. The $318 HD26200 system, which requires direct line of sight, is a complete outdoor wireless network bridge in the 802.11 b/g 2.4GHz band that uses two high performance Ubiquiti network radios with integrated 17dbi dual polarity antennas. The HD26200 bridge is powered over ethernet, allowing a single outdoor CAT5 cable to bring both data and power to the radios.
"Since the introduction of WiFi radios people have tried to push the range of consumer level products by adding external antennas, RF cables, and WiFi amplifiers. The cost of those devices often totaled well over $500 and that was after they had already bought two D-Link or Linksys radios for $75 each," said Don Davis, President and CEO of HD Communications Corp. "Now they can have an FCC certified wireless bridge that will work better, look better, is easier to configure, and easier to install for less than $320."
On its website, the company claims that WiFi links can be established over distances of 50km (30 miles) based on clear, unobstructed line of sight in ideal RF conditions, but that typical links were between five and eight miles, short of its 5 mile claim in the press release. In addition, it said the system can provide significantly increased throughput (up to 50+Mbps TCP/IP).
The HD26200 does require a direct line of sight between the two locations; however, HD Communications says it has additional products for non-line of sight situations and promised to introduce additional wireless bridge solutions later this summer.
Great. First I learn Newton is only an approximation, atomic theory is only an approximation, Gas *laws* are an approximation and now even Einstein (who I can't understand anyway) is only an approximation as well.
Will the real reality please reveal itself!