Even Janitors have to prepare supply requisitions, post their hours on the computer, fill in repair request forms for failed equipment etc. Stay in school, son. Stay in school.
First, I said violent AND NON VIOLENT. You stopped reading when you saw what you wanted to see.
The behavior traits that affect the commission of crime are arguable exactly the same as those driving scientific cheating or misconduct.
Others on this topic have posted that women are subject to far more scrutiny than men, and they realize this, and understand that they won't get away with it.
So for you to assert that they commit just as much misconduct but get away with it more often flies in the face of every other aspect of human behavior, as well as the theory of glass ceiling and undue scrutiny of female researchers.
The point is that mankind has learned to avoid mass poisoning itself when evaluating new or novel foods. Its not likely that serious risks of GM foods would be totally missed, in an era when the legal consequences reach far beyond the individual with actual symptoms.
Women earn degrees at just about every educational lever at a higher rate than men. Women account for the majority of post secondary degrees in the US.
The old idea that women have to work harder to achieve degrees simply has very little data to support it.
As far as facing more scrutiny, why would that be the case since they are caught far fewer times than men? If some one is going to be scrutinized its most likely the person with a higher than average statistical propensity to bend the rules. In almost every aspect of society, that would be men.
They can give Alltel customers a free phone upgrade and leave a single 1X channel active during the migration for embedded modems. This can be done in 3 months.
Can't and won't!
There is no emergency here. There is little incentive to rush. You grossly underestimate the task at hand.
Even if they wanted to shut down CDMA in three months, the FCC wouldn't let them (inconviences too many people), they can't possibly go through every tower that quickly, train their staff, and hire new techs, stock the phones, transfer all their customers phone book entries, deal with customer complaints, merge the customer database and sales system, provision every sales office with sim card writers, revise all contracts, etc.
Cell companies don't want to GIVE anything away. Why should they, when they can just wait till you upgrade of your own free will, and pay for your own phone, either outright or on contract.
If they simply give each of their 585,000 users a new phone, even a middle range Android phone you are talking about a wholesale bulk order price to AT&T of around $200 per handset, or 117 million bucks minimum for all subscribers. If you FORCE a customer to change equipment, you have to eat the cost of the equipment.
The tower equipment they inherited is bought and paid for, and letting it sit there and run while they take their time about hanging new antennas, transmitters, and GSM backends on these towers is the only sensible way to go.
No, sadly he means CAN type without looking. In other words he works with idiots, or the primary function of his office is limited to rubber stamping and filing.
You must be a happy person. Certain things just doesn't come easy to everyone. I'm not a 10 finger typist on a QWERTY keyboard and never will be due to limitations to how I can control my fingers. Same reason I can't play a guitar. There is no chance in hell I'll be able to use that "keyboard" demonstrated above.
So what? You are not typical, and have an impairment that would affect use of any keyboard.
That in no way invalidates the point the GP was making, namely that having only three people out of five who can type with more than one finger without watching the keyboard would be about the most any company could accept and still be profitable and functional. In this day and age, just about every grade school child learns to type. My mom forced me to take typing in JR High, back in the 60's when it was pretty uncool and unusual to see anything but girls in such a class.
Touch typing with all fingers and no eyes is an essential skill these days. I wouldn't hire a janitor who couldn't do it, let alone an office worker.
Someone nerdier than me: does the acquisition of spectrum only apply/assist reception for customers in the geographical area that Alltell serves? That is, by buying this spectrum the intention is to improve ATT service in this local area and has no effect nationwide?
Not much effect nation wide, other than to provide roaming services to travelers, (theirs as well as others). The specifics as to which areas the spectrum licenses cover hasn't been made public. Sometimes these licenses cover a wider area than is currently being exploited.
So the expectation is that this will just fill a hole in AT&T's coverage map, and/or free them from having to pay roaming fees to their own customers that visit these areas.
I don't think that 1333/customer is exactly the right calculation though, because AT&T will have these service areas for a long time to come so there are future customers to consider as well.
If they do a good job (I know its AT&T, but it COULD happen...) they should be able to hold onto those customers (with new phone incentives - see below) and attract new ones. And, you are correct, the spectrum has a lot of value.
Missed by many is the fact that the cost is not the final price. AT&T is a GSM/LTE company and what they bought was for the most part was a CDMA infrastructure. That means they will have to double rack every tower as they transition to GSM gear and they have to keep the CDMA net running while they cut over all those users to GSM phones which could take a few years. (3 to 5 years is my guess, having had my prior cell provider purchased by AT&T some years ago). Or they may just keep the CDMA gear till it dies and resell roaming service to Verizon and Sprint et al.
So the cost side is not pinned down entirely any more than is the revenue side by the widely known facts as published.
Astounding how we managed to survive for a couple hundred thousand years without having a clue about the human genome. Not to mention an equally long stretch of time that our lesser ancestors held sway. During that time we've eaten just about everything, interbread just about every plant and animal we could, promptly eating anything that resulted. In the last couple thousand years we've ingested chemical about as fast as we could invent them, as long as the donkeys or lab rats didn't die when we try it out on them.
It's time for you to exist the basement and learn about life on earth.
...I'm sure I would not want to work on this all day.
News Flash: Business learned long ago that there are different tools for different jobs. This is why you seldom see mail clerks riding among the cubicles on horseback.
I remember seeing a few companies that can pinpoint a wifi device without it being connected to an access point. Think reverse war driving...
Exactly.
A radio NIC, for instance, will broadcast a probe request when using active scanning to determine which access points are within range for possible association. Some sniffing software (e.g., NetStumbler) tools send probe requests so that access points will respond with desired info.
The think is, your phone is always running a scan, even when you have already associated with a router in the coffee shop, it will still scan occasionally to see other nearby stations. Even if your phone never associates to any of those other stations they can read the scan probe request.
I doubt the stores in your average mall can tell what isle you are in, that would require way higher density of access points than would be necessary to provide wifi service. This information is probably just not that valuable to them to build all that infrastructure. But monitoring on a department by department, floor by floor or store by store basis it might be doable.
Still it seems like collecting data for no obvious reason, just to know that some one came into the store who spent time in the Shoes department 6 weeks ago.
And quite frankly, that is the market that this tablet is aimed at. Everybody expectant it to be a dud. But I'm not so sure. It may well take off where there is a need to run tightly integrated software that ties into corporate environment, but which is not so mainstream that it would attract lots of developers wanting to port it to RT, or it is so customized or so proprietary that there is simply no market for an RT port.
Of course, lots of C++/C# apps are source level portable to RT via a simple recompile. However not everything in the corporate world is written in those languages, or, the original coder has moved on, and (like most C applications) the application became unmaintainable for anything but emergency patches.
1) Yes: Multiple variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (P35S) are used to drive the expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants
2) No its presence was not unexpected
3) Its merely a tidbit of speculation: "putative translation products of gene VI overlapping P35S" were examined. (These have never been observed in the wild, they simply "Supposed them into being".) Upon Examining them they found "No relevant similarity was identified between the putative peptides and known allergens and toxins".
Translation, These genes have sequences that might overlap to produce other "translations" (re-combinations). Nobody's ever seen it happen. So we had to use a computer. We speculated all the possible outcomes from such translations. We found nothing harmful.
Multiple variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (P35S) are used to drive the expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants, for both research purposes and commercial applications.
So, right away we learn that it wasn't a "hidden viral gene". Its known and expected that P35S would be present.
A bioinformatic analysis was performed to assess the safety for human and animal health of putative translation products of gene VI overlapping P35S. No relevant similarity was identified between the putative peptides and known allergens and toxins, using different databases.
So again, nothing that might be been produced (but in fact have not been seen - hence "putative") by this gene's presence was found.
Very interesting story. But there are ridiculously large numbers of horses in the US that never see a race track, and aren't used for anything more than the entertainment of spoiled teen age suburban girls, who seem to have an unnatural attraction to horses and ponies.
There are horse lovers everywhere, my local newspaper was recently full of letters to the editor deploring the selling of horses to slaughter, wanting to make it against the law, and metaphorically equating the horses with children. The letter writers were all female. Again, there is something vaguely creepy about that.
I've never understood why there are so many horses about. They aren't exactly cheap to keep, you get to ride them less than once a week on average and you end up having to truck them somewhere do to so. Yet I can walk a mile from my house a see a pasture with 5 horses which I've never seen being used for anything. Not eve by the occasional teen age girl. Trotted out for the forth of July parade where everyone dresses like cowboys (mostly cowgirls) in an area that has never had a cowboy tradition.
Still, on a recent trip I spotted one very large Horse feeding yard just east of Shelby Montana where horses were being gathered for shipment to a Canadian packing plant. Apparently not everyone has an aversion to horse meat.
Oh, sorry, missed that part. But I'm not aware of any law that would authorize a judge to issue a court order forcing anyone to commit a crime of theft and breaking encryption technology by stealing private keys from your computer.
Other posters have stated that the source code for the client side is open source. So that means users would be in full control of the encryption methodology and keys. That makes your scenario seem pretty far fetched.
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No, I'd spring for the Dvorak. As long as they don't waste my time hunting and pecking.
Exactly.
Even Janitors have to prepare supply requisitions, post their hours on the computer, fill in repair request forms for failed equipment etc.
Stay in school, son. Stay in school.
Sigh....
Again, The topic under discussion is "research misconduct" faking results, plagiarism, etc.
There is not a shred of evidence that females were anywhere near these male researcher who were committing research misconduct.
This has nothing to do with sexual advances or tight clothing.
The topic under discussion is "research misconduct" faking results, plagiarism, etc.
I fail to see how your juvenile "Her Cleavage Made Me Do It" mentality is even remotely germane.
First, I said violent AND NON VIOLENT. You stopped reading when you saw what you wanted to see.
The behavior traits that affect the commission of crime are arguable exactly the same as those driving scientific cheating or misconduct.
Others on this topic have posted that women are subject to far more scrutiny than men, and they realize this, and understand that they won't get away with it.
So for you to assert that they commit just as much misconduct but get away with it more often flies in the face of every other aspect of human behavior, as well as the theory of glass ceiling and undue scrutiny of female researchers.
The point is that mankind has learned to avoid mass poisoning itself when evaluating new or novel foods.
Its not likely that serious risks of GM foods would be totally missed, in an era when the legal consequences
reach far beyond the individual with actual symptoms.
Nonsense.
Women earn degrees at just about every educational lever at a higher rate than men. Women account for the majority of post secondary degrees in the US.
The old idea that women have to work harder to achieve degrees simply has very little data to support it.
As far as facing more scrutiny, why would that be the case since they are caught far fewer times than men? If some one is going to be scrutinized its most likely the person with a higher than average statistical propensity to bend the rules. In almost every aspect of society, that would be men.
The same male predominance in crime statistics, (violent and non-violent) is found in nearly every country.
Women commit 1/10th the amount of violent crimes that men do.
Unless there are sneaky ways to murder people, I don't think your conclusion holds.
They can give Alltel customers a free phone upgrade and leave a single 1X channel active during the migration for embedded modems. This can be done in 3 months.
Can't and won't!
There is no emergency here. There is little incentive to rush. You grossly underestimate the task at hand.
Even if they wanted to shut down CDMA in three months, the FCC wouldn't let them (inconviences too many people), they can't possibly go through every tower that quickly, train their staff, and hire new techs, stock the phones, transfer all their customers phone book entries, deal with customer complaints, merge the customer database and sales system, provision every sales office with sim card writers, revise all contracts, etc.
Cell companies don't want to GIVE anything away.
Why should they, when they can just wait till you upgrade of your own free will, and pay for your own phone, either outright or on contract.
If they simply give each of their 585,000 users a new phone, even a middle range Android phone you are talking about a wholesale bulk order price to AT&T of around $200 per handset, or 117 million bucks minimum for all subscribers. If you FORCE a customer to change equipment, you have to eat the cost of the equipment.
The tower equipment they inherited is bought and paid for, and letting it sit there and run while they take their time about hanging new antennas, transmitters, and GSM backends on these towers is the only sensible way to go.
No, sadly he means CAN type without looking. In other words he works with idiots, or the primary function of his office is limited to rubber stamping and filing.
You must be a happy person. Certain things just doesn't come easy to everyone. I'm not a 10 finger typist on a QWERTY keyboard and never will be due to limitations to how I can control my fingers. Same reason I can't play a guitar. There is no chance in hell I'll be able to use that "keyboard" demonstrated above.
So what? You are not typical, and have an impairment that would affect use of any keyboard.
That in no way invalidates the point the GP was making, namely that having only three people out of five who can type with more than one finger without watching the keyboard would be about the most any company could accept and still be profitable and functional. In this day and age, just about every grade school child learns to type. My mom forced me to take typing in JR High, back in the 60's when it was pretty uncool and unusual to see anything but girls in such a class.
Touch typing with all fingers and no eyes is an essential skill these days. I wouldn't hire a janitor who couldn't do it, let alone an office worker.
Odd you give subtitles for AT&T, but non for Voltron. Not all of us live and die by comic books or animated cartoons.
Someone nerdier than me: does the acquisition of spectrum only apply/assist reception for customers in the geographical area that Alltell serves? That is, by buying this spectrum the intention is to improve ATT service in this local area and has no effect nationwide?
Not much effect nation wide, other than to provide roaming services to travelers, (theirs as well as others).
The specifics as to which areas the spectrum licenses cover hasn't been made public. Sometimes these licenses cover a wider area than is currently being exploited.
So the expectation is that this will just fill a hole in AT&T's coverage map, and/or free them from having to pay roaming fees to their own customers that visit these areas.
That's probably a good running start.
I don't think that 1333/customer is exactly the right calculation though, because AT&T will have these service areas for a long time to come so there are future customers to consider as well.
If they do a good job (I know its AT&T, but it COULD happen...) they should be able to hold onto those customers (with new phone incentives - see below) and attract new ones. And, you are correct, the spectrum has a lot of value.
Missed by many is the fact that the cost is not the final price. AT&T is a GSM/LTE company and what they bought was for the most part was a CDMA infrastructure. That means they will have to double rack every tower as they transition to GSM gear and they have to keep the CDMA net running while they cut over all those users to GSM phones which could take a few years. (3 to 5 years is my guess, having had my prior cell provider purchased by AT&T some years ago). Or they may just keep the CDMA gear till it dies and resell roaming service to Verizon and Sprint et al.
So the cost side is not pinned down entirely any more than is the revenue side by the widely known facts as published.
Google wifi active scanning, and take the first hit.
Astounding how we managed to survive for a couple hundred thousand years without having a clue about the human genome. Not to mention an equally long stretch of time that our lesser ancestors held sway.
During that time we've eaten just about everything, interbread just about every plant and animal we could, promptly eating anything that resulted.
In the last couple thousand years we've ingested chemical about as fast as we could invent them, as long as the donkeys or lab rats didn't die when we try it out on them.
It's time for you to exist the basement and learn about life on earth.
Mostly because work is buying me one.
...I'm sure I would not want to work on this all day.
News Flash: Business learned long ago that there are different tools for different jobs. This is why you seldom see mail clerks riding among the cubicles on horseback.
I remember seeing a few companies that can pinpoint a wifi device without it being connected to an access point. Think reverse war driving...
Exactly.
A radio NIC, for instance, will broadcast a probe request when using active scanning to determine which access points are within range for possible association. Some sniffing software (e.g., NetStumbler) tools send probe requests so that access points will respond with desired info.
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1492071
The think is, your phone is always running a scan, even when you have already associated with a router in the coffee shop, it will still scan occasionally to see other nearby stations. Even if your phone never associates to any of those other stations they can read the scan probe request.
I doubt the stores in your average mall can tell what isle you are in, that would require way higher density of access points than would be necessary to provide wifi service. This information is probably just not that valuable to them to build all that infrastructure. But monitoring on a department by department, floor by floor or store by store basis it might be doable.
Still it seems like collecting data for no obvious reason, just to know that some one came into the store who spent time in the Shoes department 6 weeks ago.
Mostly because work is buying me one.
And quite frankly, that is the market that this tablet is aimed at. Everybody expectant it to be a dud. But I'm not so sure.
It may well take off where there is a need to run tightly integrated software that ties into corporate environment, but which is not so mainstream that it would attract lots of developers wanting to port it to RT, or it is so customized or so proprietary that there is simply no market for an RT port.
Of course, lots of C++/C# apps are source level portable to RT via a simple recompile. However not everything in the corporate world is written in those languages, or, the original coder has moved on, and (like most C applications) the application became unmaintainable for anything but emergency patches.
1) Yes: Multiple variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (P35S) are used to drive the expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants
2) No its presence was not unexpected
3) Its merely a tidbit of speculation:
"putative translation products of gene VI overlapping P35S" were examined. (These have never been observed in the wild, they simply "Supposed them into being".) Upon Examining them they found "No relevant similarity was identified between the putative peptides and known allergens and toxins".
Translation, These genes have sequences that might overlap to produce other "translations" (re-combinations).
Nobody's ever seen it happen. So we had to use a computer.
We speculated all the possible outcomes from such translations.
We found nothing harmful.
No film at 11. Nothing to see here folks.
...Will also screw those eating their products.
Seriously?
According to the source linked by TFA:
Multiple variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (P35S) are used to drive the expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants, for both research purposes and commercial applications.
So, right away we learn that it wasn't a "hidden viral gene". Its known and expected that P35S would be present.
A bioinformatic analysis was performed to assess the safety for human and animal health of putative translation products of gene VI overlapping P35S. No relevant similarity was identified between the putative peptides and known allergens and toxins, using different databases.
So again, nothing that might be been produced (but in fact have not been seen - hence "putative") by this gene's presence was found.
This from the guy that thinks it not stealing when someone copies someone else's private encryption key.
If you want to stand up there on that soap box, better make sure your feet aren't made of clay.
Very interesting story. But there are ridiculously large numbers of horses in the US that never see a race track, and aren't used for anything more than the entertainment of spoiled teen age suburban girls, who seem to have an unnatural attraction to horses and ponies.
There are horse lovers everywhere, my local newspaper was recently full of letters to the editor deploring the selling of horses to slaughter, wanting to make it against the law, and metaphorically equating the horses with children. The letter writers were all female. Again, there is something vaguely creepy about that.
I've never understood why there are so many horses about. They aren't exactly cheap to keep, you get to ride them less than once a week on average and you end up having to truck them somewhere do to so. Yet I can walk a mile from my house a see a pasture with 5 horses which I've never seen being used for anything. Not eve by the occasional teen age girl. Trotted out for the forth of July parade where everyone dresses like cowboys (mostly cowgirls) in an area that has never had a cowboy tradition.
Still, on a recent trip I spotted one very large Horse feeding yard just east of Shelby Montana where horses were being gathered for shipment to a Canadian packing plant. Apparently not everyone has an aversion to horse meat.
Oh, sorry, missed that part.
But I'm not aware of any law that would authorize a judge to issue a court order forcing anyone to commit a crime of theft and breaking encryption technology by stealing private keys from your computer.
Other posters have stated that the source code for the client side is open source. So that means users would be in full control of the encryption methodology and keys.
That makes your scenario seem pretty far fetched.
You're not using your head.
They don't WANT to know you key or the content of your files.
If they knew, they would immediately become liable for harboring any pirated content.
What would be point of that? Why attract trouble? The whole point of the business model is to not know.
They are perfectly happy not being able to decrypt your porn.