How about a VoIP device on an open wireless connection, with a spoofed MAC address of course. Steal a laptop and Skype at McD's, would you like fries with that international terrorism happy meal.
Point well taken. The area I hail from has PG&E, and they instituted smart meters some years ago, and then promptly let go of several hundred workers who previous walked the neighborhoods reading meters in lieu of one guy in a truck driving thru at 15 mph reading them automatically. Immediately following our switch, my monthly cost went up $20/month. When I called on PG&E they claimed that the old meters were not as accurate, and that they had been under-charging us for many years. On a side note I don't want PG&E to have access to my AC or any other device in my house. If there is a power shortage they could go get the big businesses and building owners that leave the lights on 24 hours a day/7 days a week, and get preferential rates for doing it. In the long run you are probably correct, who can imagine a utility voluntarily spending money to maintain the infrastructure implemented and paid for by tax payer money, when they can just rake in the profit and then petition for state/federal money to do upkeep and maintenance.
Is there data about the sex, and race of applicants to the project. Not that I am denying there is both racial and sexual bias in the workplace, but you can't hire those that don't apply. I've worked for many companies in several fields of the computer industry, and the only one that was really male dominated was a *nix/mini computer support group that was about 90% male, but the work requirements regarding overtime and the number of hours expected was so high that even dedicated geek guys burned out rather quickly. The email support group I went to directly after that was more than half women, both my direct lab support techs, and my supervisor were very qualified and competent women, and there was a very diverse racial make-up as well. While working for HP as a customer support engineer, the most successful account reps were female, some for the obvious reasons, but most for their ability to communicate and interact with account staff in a more productive efficient manner.
I am in the US, Arizona specifically right now, and of course we do use the decimal system. That was a weak attempt at a joke on our states less than enlightened view of education, math in particular. I can't remember which of our Reps issued a statement in regard to the rejecting of the common-core system to the effect that math that used letters was fuzzy and not needed. I figured he'd have the same view of 'numbers' that used a period in them.
"carve out $21.55 million for pilot projects such as modernizing the electric distribution grid."
What a concept, a utility company "carving" out money to maintain the system they have a monopoly on. People wonder how our national infrastructure got into the horrible shape it is now...
We don't use the decimal system over here. I say we kill them all, why leave the other nine around ? Currency manipulation, algorithmic manipulation and day trading are killing our country and hurting businesses in the long run.
The Rockefeller Fund, otherwise known as the Rockefeller Foundation is NOT a company but a foundation, or a grant funding organization, AKA a charity. They are not in 'business' to make a profit but rather make donations to worthy causes and hopefully set a socially responsible example for others to follow. In reality it is probably an attempt to balance out the horrible karma John D. generated on his rise to riches, and maybe shave some time from the sentence in hell he is serving for being such a bastard robber baron in his life time.
Maybe they could use this kind of technology on VRU systems and find out how much customers actually hate them, or Comcast could run the program and listen to me cursing under my breath while I wait on hold for 'an available operator' to come on and screw me over...
There is a common saying amongst law enforcement, to the effect that prisons are full of dumb criminals, the cops are chasing the mediocre ones and the smart ones a never even get suspected, let alone caught.
I heard him speak once a long time ago. He was truly one of a very few, a more than capable engineer who could also manage and deal with management 'types'. I have been lucky in my career to work for a couple of that type, and I must say it was a rare pleasure to talk to someone who understood what you were doing, and could get up from behind their desk and likely go do your job as well as you could. That kind of personality seems to have a short shelf life past a certain point in management. I am sure he will be greatly missed.
10 % sell back is about what I see for 'analog' books. I am not that big of a fan of sell back for books or games, but maybe the idea that you could transfer the ownership of a digital 'property' for a 10% fee is one that I think would really be cool. I routinely share the books I purchase with family members so we each get 3 times as many books to read, and I get exposed to some authors and subjects that I would not normally try myself.
Not unless they make an adaptor that will allow the 'old' Ethernet to hook into the 'new' Ethernet format. If that is the case then I am all for it. Although I can see where it might cause real estate problems in a 'new' network cabinet unless it was at the end of a dongle. It would be especially cool if it allowed for the reduction in the foot print of large scale routers.
Whether or not blackberry devices survive is very much in the balance, but Blackberry the company is making a bundle on their QNX OS, which is quietly powering a huge number of devices in very diverse markets.
That is a good thought, but you would think that a mass part replacement like that would have jumped out to any semi-competent maintenance staff, or if it had been occurring over a long period of time, the failures would have gradually increased. I don't really know but they had better solve it soon, any extended disruption of Bart is going to turn an already shitty commute into a disaster.
Actually AFAIK mine is up to date. I'm not really concerned with the privacy aspect of my paperwhite since all I do with it is read e-books and I've no problem with my choice in literature being public knowledge. Right now I'm reading David Drake's 'Books of the Elements' series. I just recently finished some books by David Gatwood, an author I 'found' either here or Soylent can't remember which, but whom I do recommend. I do use an alternate ID and password for it as opposed to devices I regularly use for more sensitive things, like home banking and such.
*whoosh* A swing and a miss. Lighten up Francis. Perhaps you should loosen your garter and corset a wee bit and let the blood flow to your brain. Cheers mate
That is the exact feeling I get living on the West coast. In an earth quake zone, you prep some stuff ahead of time and go about living your life, it might happen today or maybe never. If you live in a Tornado zone there is that dreaded period before the storm that you huddle behind boarded windows and pray that your house survives the incoming storm.
Not if the lack turns my Kindle into a brick I don't. I wonder if the update contains something that they are going to activate in the near future, that will lock out those that don't have the update. Say some sort of underlying security update, or a change in the address for updates themselves. Like from themselves to say the NSA's home website:)
Note : I really like my Kindle Paperwhite, and use it extensively, but only as an book substitute.
Unless they have recently upgraded a mass of cars or track, why does it suddenly start happening now ? The system has been in use and fairly reliable for a long time. I have no proof, but the suspicious borderline paranoid inside me is screaming that someone is hacking at the electrical infrastructure that feeds the Bart system, and the problem lies outside their direct observation, and is likely with PG&E's supply system to Bart. PG&E has demonstrated the disregard for maintenance, monitoring, and the security incompetence in the last few years to allow for something like this. It will likely take some outside support for Bart to prove the failures don't lie inside their infrastructure to get PG&E to even begin to look at their own systems.
I lived in Contra Costa county in Nor-Cal, we've got 2 competing cable companies; Comcast and Wave, formerly Astound, in addition to the obvious satellite options. Not sure how Astound which is from St. Cloud MN, ended up in our area (Concord) but nowhere else around. It did result in a lower cost for Comcast and an ongoing battle between the 2 providers. YEAH for competition.
I'd love to be able to finally silence my console retarded brother and his buddies in a true first person shooter environment. I am so tired of hearing how they think they are superior players when I can see them unable to perform movements and shots that are regular things amongst PC gamers. I've been a 1st person shooter lover and a pretty dang good player since Unreal Tournament came out and our team started having organized practices many years ago. UT offered the option for combo shots that detonated for extra bang, such as the pulse rifle and the ability to shoot the nuke flown by another team member, and we could and did regularly do it. That kind of precision is rarely seen in console games, not that there aren't some out there more than capable. Note I am not nearly as dexterous now as I was 20 years ago, and I hate console controllers so I just don't play them, but I've watched a lot of my younger brother and his friends play such and listened to them crow on about how good they are but they won't get on the PC and I don't own a either console, so my opinion 'might' be a bit slanted, and I am an old guy, so get off my lawn.
Not if IBM owns both. I recall working as an operator & sysadmin on AIX machines in a previous lifetime. They were cumbersome at best, but weren't they RISC based hardware which was all the rage back then. http://cs.stanford.edu/people/...
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How about a VoIP device on an open wireless connection, with a spoofed MAC address of course.
Steal a laptop and Skype at McD's, would you like fries with that international terrorism happy meal.
Point well taken. The area I hail from has PG&E, and they instituted smart meters some years ago, and then promptly let go of several hundred workers who previous walked the neighborhoods reading meters in lieu of one guy in a truck driving thru at 15 mph reading them automatically. Immediately following our switch, my monthly cost went up $20/month. When I called on PG&E they claimed that the old meters were not as accurate, and that they had been under-charging us for many years. On a side note I don't want PG&E to have access to my AC or any other device in my house. If there is a power shortage they could go get the big businesses and building owners that leave the lights on 24 hours a day/7 days a week, and get preferential rates for doing it.
In the long run you are probably correct, who can imagine a utility voluntarily spending money to maintain the infrastructure implemented and paid for by tax payer money, when they can just rake in the profit and then petition for state/federal money to do upkeep and maintenance.
Is there data about the sex, and race of applicants to the project. Not that I am denying there is both racial and sexual bias in the workplace, but you can't hire those that don't apply. I've worked for many companies in several fields of the computer industry, and the only one that was really male dominated was a *nix/mini computer support group that was about 90% male, but the work requirements regarding overtime and the number of hours expected was so high that even dedicated geek guys burned out rather quickly. The email support group I went to directly after that was more than half women, both my direct lab support techs, and my supervisor were very qualified and competent women, and there was a very diverse racial make-up as well. While working for HP as a customer support engineer, the most successful account reps were female, some for the obvious reasons, but most for their ability to communicate and interact with account staff in a more productive efficient manner.
I am in the US, Arizona specifically right now, and of course we do use the decimal system. That was a weak attempt at a joke on our states less than enlightened view of education, math in particular. I can't remember which of our Reps issued a statement in regard to the rejecting of the common-core system to the effect that math that used letters was fuzzy and not needed. I figured he'd have the same view of 'numbers' that used a period in them.
"carve out $21.55 million for pilot projects such as modernizing the electric distribution grid."
What a concept, a utility company "carving" out money to maintain the system they have a monopoly on. People wonder how our national infrastructure got into the horrible shape it is now...
We don't use the decimal system over here. I say we kill them all, why leave the other nine around ? Currency manipulation, algorithmic manipulation and day trading are killing our country and hurting businesses in the long run.
The Rockefeller Fund, otherwise known as the Rockefeller Foundation is NOT a company but a foundation, or a grant funding organization, AKA a charity. They are not in 'business' to make a profit but rather make donations to worthy causes and hopefully set a socially responsible example for others to follow. In reality it is probably an attempt to balance out the horrible karma John D. generated on his rise to riches, and maybe shave some time from the sentence in hell he is serving for being such a bastard robber baron in his life time.
Maybe they could use this kind of technology on VRU systems and find out how much customers actually hate them, or Comcast could run the program and listen to me cursing under my breath while I wait on hold for 'an available operator' to come on and screw me over...
There is a common saying amongst law enforcement, to the effect that prisons are full of dumb criminals, the cops are chasing the mediocre ones and the smart ones a never even get suspected, let alone caught.
I heard him speak once a long time ago. He was truly one of a very few, a more than capable engineer who could also manage and deal with management 'types'. I have been lucky in my career to work for a couple of that type, and I must say it was a rare pleasure to talk to someone who understood what you were doing, and could get up from behind their desk and likely go do your job as well as you could. That kind of personality seems to have a short shelf life past a certain point in management. I am sure he will be greatly missed.
10 % sell back is about what I see for 'analog' books. I am not that big of a fan of sell back for books or games, but maybe the idea that you could transfer the ownership of a digital 'property' for a 10% fee is one that I think would really be cool. I routinely share the books I purchase with family members so we each get 3 times as many books to read, and I get exposed to some authors and subjects that I would not normally try myself.
Not unless they make an adaptor that will allow the 'old' Ethernet to hook into the 'new' Ethernet format. If that is the case then I am all for it. Although I can see where it might cause real estate problems in a 'new' network cabinet unless it was at the end of a dongle. It would be especially cool if it allowed for the reduction in the foot print of large scale routers.
Whether or not blackberry devices survive is very much in the balance, but Blackberry the company is making a bundle on their QNX OS, which is quietly powering a huge number of devices in very diverse markets.
http://www.qnx.com/products/ne...
http://www.qnx.com/partners/pa...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/b...
That is a good thought, but you would think that a mass part replacement like that would have jumped out to any semi-competent maintenance staff, or if it had been occurring over a long period of time, the failures would have gradually increased. I don't really know but they had better solve it soon, any extended disruption of Bart is going to turn an already shitty commute into a disaster.
Actually AFAIK mine is up to date. I'm not really concerned with the privacy aspect of my paperwhite since all I do with it is read e-books and I've no problem with my choice in literature being public knowledge. Right now I'm reading David Drake's 'Books of the Elements' series. I just recently finished some books by David Gatwood, an author I 'found' either here or Soylent can't remember which, but whom I do recommend.
I do use an alternate ID and password for it as opposed to devices I regularly use for more sensitive things, like home banking and such.
*whoosh* A swing and a miss.
Lighten up Francis. Perhaps you should loosen your garter and corset a wee bit and let the blood flow to your brain.
Cheers mate
That is the exact feeling I get living on the West coast. In an earth quake zone, you prep some stuff ahead of time and go about living your life, it might happen today or maybe never. If you live in a Tornado zone there is that dreaded period before the storm that you huddle behind boarded windows and pray that your house survives the incoming storm.
Not if the lack turns my Kindle into a brick I don't. I wonder if the update contains something that they are going to activate in the near future, that will lock out those that don't have the update. Say some sort of underlying security update, or a change in the address for updates themselves. Like from themselves to say the NSA's home website :)
Note : I really like my Kindle Paperwhite, and use it extensively, but only as an book substitute.
I'd mod the above as insightful if I had the points.
Will the 'real' anonymous please stand up, and out the amateurs who are parading as them.
Unless they have recently upgraded a mass of cars or track, why does it suddenly start happening now ? The system has been in use and fairly reliable for a long time. I have no proof, but the suspicious borderline paranoid inside me is screaming that someone is hacking at the electrical infrastructure that feeds the Bart system, and the problem lies outside their direct observation, and is likely with PG&E's supply system to Bart. PG&E has demonstrated the disregard for maintenance, monitoring, and the security incompetence in the last few years to allow for something like this. It will likely take some outside support for Bart to prove the failures don't lie inside their infrastructure to get PG&E to even begin to look at their own systems.
I lived in Contra Costa county in Nor-Cal, we've got 2 competing cable companies; Comcast and Wave, formerly Astound, in addition to the obvious satellite options. Not sure how Astound which is from St. Cloud MN, ended up in our area (Concord) but nowhere else around. It did result in a lower cost for Comcast and an ongoing battle between the 2 providers. YEAH for competition.
A story from the mysterious future ?
I've great memories of Lan parties. It was so much more fun frag'n someone and then hearing them yell from across the room, "NO WAY!!!" :)
Remember Zork ? or Heath kit and Tandy computers
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I'd love to be able to finally silence my console retarded brother and his buddies in a true first person shooter environment. I am so tired of hearing how they think they are superior players when I can see them unable to perform movements and shots that are regular things amongst PC gamers. I've been a 1st person shooter lover and a pretty dang good player since Unreal Tournament came out and our team started having organized practices many years ago. UT offered the option for combo shots that detonated for extra bang, such as the pulse rifle and the ability to shoot the nuke flown by another team member, and we could and did regularly do it. That kind of precision is rarely seen in console games, not that there aren't some out there more than capable. Note I am not nearly as dexterous now as I was 20 years ago, and I hate console controllers so I just don't play them, but I've watched a lot of my younger brother and his friends play such and listened to them crow on about how good they are but they won't get on the PC and I don't own a either console, so my opinion 'might' be a bit slanted, and I am an old guy, so get off my lawn.
Not if IBM owns both. I recall working as an operator & sysadmin on AIX machines in a previous lifetime. They were cumbersome at best, but weren't they RISC based hardware which was all the rage back then.
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/...