I believe HS year books are public record... or at least not 'illegal', so if you wanted to type in every person's name and have a website, they can suck it. Maybe you can't say it is the 'so-and-so alumni page' but you can say Society of Appreciation for Having Attended SASHS.. (IANAL)
Odds are they are getting kick backs from Classmates. I really wonder sometimes because I went to a fairly large HS and they *HAD* a start of a webpage and it all disappeared.. Nothing, not even notices of Reunions. How come every high school doesn't have their computer programming/web classes make a school website?? How hard can a Forum really be or to let people update their personal info.. Schools would get current contact info to hit people up for money.. None of it makes sense. And my tingling tin-hat says Classmates (TM) is to blame.
First Energy gets informal SEC request for data
Fri September 12, 2003 08:17 AM ET
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Ohio utility First Energy Corp. FE.N on Friday said the Securities and Exchange Commission had sent it a voluntary, informal request for data regarding its recent 2002 financial restatements.
"First Energy intends to fully comply with the request and does not anticipate any adverse consequences," the Akron, Ohio, company said in an SEC filing.
The SEC request was made on Thursday, First Energy said, when the Ohio utility revised three regulatory filings, citing tens of millions of dollars in "typographical and minor computational errors."
The company's transmission lines have been cited as a possible source of the massive Aug. 14 blackouts.
Oh yeah, these guys run a nUUclear powerplant that um.. is like a college landlord of mine. Cheap and dirty as possible.
2:02:00 - 2:02:00 PM - Transmission line disconnects in southwestern Ohio
3:05:41 - 3:41:33 PM - Transmission lines disconnect between eastern Ohio and northern Ohio
3:45:33 - 4:08:58 PM - Remaining transmission lines disconnect from eastern into northern Ohio
4:08:58 - 4:10:27 PM - Transmission lines into northwestern Ohio disconnect, and generation trips in central Michigan
4:10:00 - 4:10:38 PM - Transmission lines disconnect across Michigan and northern Ohio, generation trips off line in northern Michigan and northern Ohio, and northern Ohio separates from Pennsylvania
4:10:40 - 4:10:44 PM - Four transmission lines disconnect between Pennsylvania and New York
4:10:41 - 4:10:41 PM - Transmission line disconnects and generation trips in northern Ohio
4:10:42 - 4:10:45 PM - Transmission paths disconnect in northern Ontario and New Jersey, isolating the northeast portion of the Eastern Interconnection
4:10:46 - 4:10:55 PM - New York splits east-to-west. New England (except Southwestern Connecticut) and the Maritimes separate from New York and remain intact.
4:10:50 - 4:11:57 PM - Ontario separates from New York west of Niagara Falls and west of St. Lawrence. Southwestern Connecticut separates from New York and blacks out.
Maybe some economics Prof should reply to this, but, the fact is the oil is pulled out of the ground with bizarro equations, not based on supply and demand. The only thing for sure is oil companies want to increase their profits. The other thing is for sure is that (for the time being) oil companies can supply as much oil as anyone would ever want. If we doubled consumption, for now they could meet it. So. If usage of gasoline goes down nationwide dramatically, oil companies would be forced to raise gas prices to keep up their profits.
I've ridden in one of those original mid-90s fully electric cars out in CA and they do go 0-80 at constant g's which gets creepy when you get amazing acceleration from 60-80 they same as 0-20..
I'm not sure how the pickup is slow.. The beauty of electric DC motors is the constant acceleration. I'm sure the set points in the current profile that hackers will one day be able to get into the cars to change the performance curves.
Pros:
At a stop light, they are silent and no emissions.
Silent start-up and DC-motor acceleration until the gas engine kicks on. Cool reuse of breaking energy into charging batteries instead of boring friction and heat in conventional cars. Can be used as a power plant, say, in power outages, or maybe one day, cars plugged into grid can run gas engine to produce electricty during peak times. And they sell pretty well
Cons:
From a cost point of view, they'll never beat out
the super-efficient gas motors mini-cars. Battery life and cost of replacement (currently >= value of older hybrid vehicle). The impact on environment for spent toxic chemicals. Engine repairs. (I'm not sure if you've ever look in one, but they are jam-packed with every inch filled and basically unserviceable in terms of the ever fewer small jobs you can do yourself). Oh, and you
*MUST* use specially licensed high-voltage service techs, which are few and far between currently. Will cause gas prices to rise -- see econ 101 supply vs. demand
I'll post here since it is related to a very similar three letter company.
My boss hired this moron who would spend most days juggling in the hallway. One day he printed out his usual pile of crossword puzzles (true story), but left his paystub print out sitting in my printer tray for a week. I looked mostly accidentally, thinking it was my own paystub printout, but almost wept on the spot when I realized how much more he was making (with 2 yrs less experience). I figure this was accounted for by the fact that both my boss and co-worker were alumni of the same "prestigous" engineering university.
The trouble with this kind of thinking is that you are assuming they had to put new/extra resources into this activity. (leaving out discussion of legal fees)
So, are you saying they (NYTimes and Lexis/Nexis) have no network admins who are responsible for detecting and looking into security. Are you saying they have no one tasked to do network security of fix holes.
So, if I go into a store and shoplift, can they ask for $25,000 to review security tapes, hire security guards, buy a metal detector, etc.
How funny there is guards staring at this goof up until they figure out what to do with it.
What's up with building satellites FIVE years in advance. I understand it takes a long time at stuff.. but really, the technology will be so different by 2008. Hell, robots will be running things.
How many trailers and mobile homes have you seen with DirecTV and/or big honkin' satellite dishes? There is a reason for the joke about the redneck who pays more in cable bills than rent.
Ok I was saving this until the next RIAA article for karma whoring.. but why put of until tomorrow... Excerpts from RIAA propaganda HQ
THE WE READ WHAT IS ON THE PRESS RELEASE AWARDS
Eminem
I work hard and anybody can just throw a computer up and download my music for free. It could kill the whole purpose of making music. It's not just about the money: It's the thrill of going to the store; you can't wait till that artist's release date, taking the wrapper off the CD and putting the CD in to see what it sounds like. I've seen those little sissies on TV, talking about how 'The working people should just get music for free,'
Britney Spears
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music. It's the exact same thing, so why do it?
THE IT'S ABOUT THE QUALITY STUPID AWARDS
Stevie Wonder
...our industry must take a very strong position against the stealing of our writing and music or else those writings and music will become as cheap as the garbage in the streets.
Neil Young
I don't like to have a record out and have people hear versions that we don't want them to hear.
Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins
Burning CD's is like an arranged marriage and the artists are the shot-gun brides. When nobody asks your permission, things tend to go bad.
(ED: How come my cassette tape mixes weren't evil)
Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
The bottom line is the fan who is saying, "Oh man you're the greatest," is in reality stealing from you and your family, and more importantly not respecting [the artist's] judgment on what [they] think is appropriate to bear your name.
Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik
If you rob artists of their means of earning, eventually there will be no art of consequence or substance.
E Street Band's Danny Federici
Although music is a blessing, the parasites of piracy pollute its 'specialness.' We don't need digital pimps robbing us blind of our own creativity and the fruits thereof.
THE BREAKING-AND-ENTERING POLICE REPORT AWARDS
Creed's Scott Stapp
These file sharing services are sneaking in the back door and robbing me blind.
Nelly
As an artist you hate for someone to break into your home and take everything that you've accumulated over the last how many ever years you've been in this game.
Rusted Root's Jim Donovan
Think of recorded music in terms of equal energy exchange, just like buying a candy bar. You can't just walk out of the store with the candy without visiting the checkout counter -- they'd arrest ya.
Everclear's Art Alexakis
It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That's the way I look at it. It's wrong. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.
Luciano Pavarotti
Artists and composers - particularly the younger ones - will not stand a chance of creating music in the future if their recordings are simply stolen in this way.
Victoria Shaw, Country Music Singer
In what other industry can someone take a product, not created by themselves, make money from the use of that product and not compensate the original creator?
(ED: ask Disney)
Troy Verges, NSAI 2002 Songwriter of the Year
Go to your job every day next week and work. When payday rolls around, tell the boss you only want half of your check.
I believe for M$ this is a win-win.
If SCO somehow wins ANY of their lawsuits, it's good for M$.
If the courts throw out the viral aspect of the lawsuit and/or code sharing and/or IP contamination.. it's a bad precident for GPL and great for them to add mystery 'back-door code' for possible future litigation
There is this discussion in his "open letter" of following the law and proper business practices.. I was led to believe that:
(a) it is not proper to comment and propagandize (continuously) about ongoing corporate litigation.
(b) if company A stole code from company B, they first get an injunction to stop the sale of product, require the code to be removed from product, THEN sue for damages as seen fit by a court of law. When exactly did SCO do any of this in regards to linux?
So don't write to the Open Source community anymore, you're not exactly a contributor. (Nor do you follow your own advice)
Hey what is fun is that about twice a year (site dependant) some *confidential material police* go around with security after hours.. (erm in the middle of the night) (oh the joys of working too much)
They look for any unlocked drawers, conf material laying out, unlocked machines.. The next day your manager gets a nasty-gram.
It's bad when you know the phone number to get your lights turned on (they auto-off at certian intervals to save $$)
I thought it wasn't frowned upon for corporations to sue every
company
in a business market (that being P2P). In a sole bid to dominate said market by introducing their own product(Code-named B5).
The RIAA has initiated litigation against Napster, Morpheus, Grokster, Audiogalaxy, KaZaA users, college students, ISPs, and many more individuals.
Settling most of these lawsuits for substantial sums of money, far exceeding the damages any reasonable person could associate with the 'illegal' activities. Even more remarkable was the defaming of this whole market of P2P ("Peer-to-Peer") by calling it
"Peer-2-Porn" and suggesting child pornography is the primary use of these networks.
After all these efforts to end ALL successful P2P software programs, the RIAA then proceeds to introduce their own product after having done significant harm to the market.
Certainly this behavior should be looked into and your constiuents recommend a Congressional Investigation.
Yeah, I used to work at IBM.. and I am afraid of what that says about the rest of the corporate world.
They don't have internet police (well they do have a proxy and you WILL be canned for visiting certain websites), but still I would think common sense applies to ALL internet activities at EVERY company. I think the difference with IBM is they are smarter about collecting employee info and activities and make it pretty non-obvious when they use it against employees. They are also smart about keeping turn over low in HR.
They log *everything* and they just don't cite that info directly when laying people off, they just have en-masse layoffs every few years.
Now I swear a month ago, they said they were only after big obvious criminal. The kinds that share millions of songs, not grandma looking for the latest Evanescence hit...
EDT August 19, 2003
Record labels don't want you to download music without paying for it. But they also say they don't want to throw people in jail just for snagging a song or two online.
The Recording Industry Association of America says it isn't going after small-time downloaders when it sues people who trade songs on the Internet. The industry group says it is interested in suing only those computer users who take part in what it calls "a substantial amount of copyrighted music."
Slashdot Mirror
I believe HS year books are public record... or at least not 'illegal', so if you wanted to type in every person's name and have a website, they can suck it. Maybe you can't say it is the 'so-and-so alumni page' but you can say Society of Appreciation for Having Attended SASHS.. (IANAL)
/web classes make a school website?? How hard can a Forum really be or to let people update their personal info.. Schools would get current contact info to hit people up for money.. None of it makes sense. And my tingling tin-hat says Classmates (TM) is to blame.
Odds are they are getting kick backs from Classmates. I really wonder sometimes because I went to a fairly large HS and they *HAD* a start of a webpage and it all disappeared.. Nothing, not even notices of Reunions. How come every high school doesn't have their computer programming
It really gets me steam-ed when it takes half-my-life to download the latest patches
CNN blames lightning in Canada
Canada Dept. of Natl Defense says NO
Canadian Prime Minister says it was a fire at a Con Edison power plant in New York
Canadian Defense Minister says it's the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania
PA's Emergency Management Agency says NO
6pm NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg holds a news conference
Oh yeah, these guys run a nUUclear powerplant that um.. is like a college landlord of mine. Cheap and dirty as possible.
12:05:44 - 1:31:34 PM - Four Generator trips
2:02:00 - 2:02:00 PM - Transmission line disconnects in southwestern Ohio
3:05:41 - 3:41:33 PM - Transmission lines disconnect between eastern Ohio and northern Ohio
3:45:33 - 4:08:58 PM - Remaining transmission lines disconnect from eastern into northern Ohio
4:08:58 - 4:10:27 PM - Transmission lines into northwestern Ohio disconnect, and generation trips in central Michigan
4:10:00 - 4:10:38 PM - Transmission lines disconnect across Michigan and northern Ohio, generation trips off line in northern Michigan and northern Ohio, and northern Ohio separates from Pennsylvania
4:10:40 - 4:10:44 PM - Four transmission lines disconnect between Pennsylvania and New York
4:10:41 - 4:10:41 PM - Transmission line disconnects and generation trips in northern Ohio
4:10:42 - 4:10:45 PM - Transmission paths disconnect in northern Ontario and New Jersey, isolating the northeast portion of the Eastern Interconnection
4:10:46 - 4:10:55 PM - New York splits east-to-west. New England (except Southwestern Connecticut) and the Maritimes separate from New York and remain intact.
4:10:50 - 4:11:57 PM - Ontario separates from New York west of Niagara Falls and west of St. Lawrence. Southwestern Connecticut separates from New York and blacks out.
Maybe some economics Prof should reply to this, but, the fact is the oil is pulled out of the ground with bizarro equations, not based on supply and demand. The only thing for sure is oil companies want to increase their profits. The other thing is for sure is that (for the time being) oil companies can supply as much oil as anyone would ever want. If we doubled consumption, for now they could meet it. So. If usage of gasoline goes down nationwide dramatically, oil companies would be forced to raise gas prices to keep up their profits.
I've ridden in one of those original mid-90s fully electric cars out in CA and they do go 0-80 at constant g's which gets creepy when you get amazing acceleration from 60-80 they same as 0-20..
Somehow they disabled the lang support in this version of Knoppix/Gnome (btw, not the first). You have to log out and then somehow change to English.
Also, anyone notice on the Thank You page there is props for Gnome and Debian, but nothing for Klaus Knopper and Knoppix!
I'm not sure how the pickup is slow.. The beauty of electric DC motors is the constant acceleration. I'm sure the set points in the current profile that hackers will one day be able to get into the cars to change the performance curves.
For more geekier chemistry on electric/hybrids, here's Princton's chemistry website about hybrid electrics
Pros:
At a stop light, they are silent and no emissions. Silent start-up and DC-motor acceleration until the gas engine kicks on. Cool reuse of breaking energy into charging batteries instead of boring friction and heat in conventional cars. Can be used as a power plant, say, in power outages, or maybe one day, cars plugged into grid can run gas engine to produce electricty during peak times. And they sell pretty well
Cons:
From a cost point of view, they'll never beat out the super-efficient gas motors mini-cars. Battery life and cost of replacement (currently >= value of older hybrid vehicle). The impact on environment for spent toxic chemicals. Engine repairs. (I'm not sure if you've ever look in one, but they are jam-packed with every inch filled and basically unserviceable in terms of the ever fewer small jobs you can do yourself). Oh, and you *MUST* use specially licensed high-voltage service techs, which are few and far between currently. Will cause gas prices to rise -- see econ 101 supply vs. demand
I'll post here since it is related to a very similar three letter company.
My boss hired this moron who would spend most days juggling in the hallway. One day he printed out his usual pile of crossword puzzles (true story), but left his paystub print out sitting in my printer tray for a week. I looked mostly accidentally, thinking it was my own paystub printout, but almost wept on the spot when I realized how much more he was making (with 2 yrs less experience). I figure this was accounted for by the fact that both my boss and co-worker were alumni of the same "prestigous" engineering university.
The trouble with this kind of thinking is that you are assuming they had to put new/extra resources into this activity. (leaving out discussion of legal fees)
So, are you saying they (NYTimes and Lexis/Nexis) have no network admins who are responsible for detecting and looking into security. Are you saying they have no one tasked to do network security of fix holes.
So, if I go into a store and shoplift, can they ask for $25,000 to review security tapes, hire security guards, buy a metal detector, etc.
Umm. hello. have you ever taken a large magnet to a casette tape? how bout a VCR tape?
speaking of this.. anyone's monitor ever shake before getting a cell phone call (esp. Nokia)?? could be problematic.
How funny there is guards staring at this goof up until they figure out what to do with it.
What's up with building satellites FIVE years in advance. I understand it takes a long time at stuff.. but really, the technology will be so different by 2008. Hell, robots will be running things.
How many trailers and mobile homes have you seen with DirecTV and/or big honkin' satellite dishes? There is a reason for the joke about the redneck who pays more in cable bills than rent.
Read my post here
Excerpts from RIAA propaganda HQ
THE WE READ WHAT IS ON THE PRESS RELEASE AWARDS
Eminem
Britney Spears
THE IT'S ABOUT THE QUALITY STUPID AWARDS
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins
Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik
E Street Band's Danny Federici
THE BREAKING-AND-ENTERING POLICE REPORT AWARDS
Creed's Scott Stapp
Nelly
Rusted Root's Jim Donovan
Everclear's Art Alexakis
Luciano Pavarotti
Victoria Shaw, Country Music Singer
Troy Verges, NSAI 2002 Songwriter of the Year
Are you now, or have you ever been a file swapper?
I believe for M$ this is a win-win.
If SCO somehow wins ANY of their lawsuits, it's good for M$.
If the courts throw out the viral aspect of the lawsuit and/or code sharing and/or IP contamination.. it's a bad precident for GPL and great for them to add mystery 'back-door code' for possible future litigation
There is this discussion in his "open letter" of following the law and proper business practices.. I was led to believe that:
(a) it is not proper to comment and propagandize (continuously) about ongoing corporate litigation.
(b) if company A stole code from company B, they first get an injunction to stop the sale of product, require the code to be removed from product, THEN sue for damages as seen fit by a court of law. When exactly did SCO do any of this in regards to linux?
So don't write to the Open Source community anymore, you're not exactly a contributor. (Nor do you follow your own advice)
Hey what is fun is that about twice a year (site dependant) some *confidential material police* go around with security after hours.. (erm in the middle of the night) (oh the joys of working too much)
They look for any unlocked drawers, conf material laying out, unlocked machines.. The next day your manager gets a nasty-gram.
It's bad when you know the phone number to get your lights turned on (they auto-off at certian intervals to save $$)
Hon. Senators & Representatives,
I thought it wasn't frowned upon for corporations to sue every company in a business market (that being P2P). In a sole bid to dominate said market by introducing their own product (Code-named B5).
The RIAA has initiated litigation against Napster, Morpheus, Grokster, Audiogalaxy, KaZaA users, college students, ISPs, and many more individuals. Settling most of these lawsuits for substantial sums of money, far exceeding the damages any reasonable person could associate with the 'illegal' activities. Even more remarkable was the defaming of this whole market of P2P ("Peer-to-Peer") by calling it "Peer-2-Porn" and suggesting child pornography is the primary use of these networks.
After all these efforts to end ALL successful P2P software programs, the RIAA then proceeds to introduce their own product after having done significant harm to the market.
Certainly this behavior should be looked into and your constiuents recommend a Congressional Investigation.
Yeah, I used to work at IBM.. and I am afraid of what that says about the rest of the corporate world.
They don't have internet police (well they do have a proxy and you WILL be canned for visiting certain websites), but still I would think common sense applies to ALL internet activities at EVERY company. I think the difference with IBM is they are smarter about collecting employee info and activities and make it pretty non-obvious when they use it against employees. They are also smart about keeping turn over low in HR.
They log *everything* and they just don't cite that info directly when laying people off, they just have en-masse layoffs every few years.
RIAA Says It's Not After Small-Time Downloaders
*I* do.. (From Weird Al's UHF)
We had to drive to the next county to get away from trouble.