Personally, I'm opposed to the GS laws for a number of reasons.
One of the biggest things is that a lot of people have no idea how to offer first aid. Simple mistakes in early care can cause more harm than good. For instance, if someone is in shock, how many people know not to let them eat, drink, or smoke? Someone is in an accident and you help them light a cigarette or give them a bottle of water and now you've made things worse.
How many people know CPR? Or will they just try and emulate what they saw Doctor House doing?
This leads me to my second problem: someone will get to look at what I did and how I did it. If I could have done better, will there be consequences?
What if I honestly don't see something going on? Will I be hauled into court because I was thinking about some difficult problem when I walked past a crime scene?
What if I feel that interfering would endanger my life? If the law says, "don't get involved but call 911." Well, what happens when the guy robbing the store sees you dialing and decides to shoot you? Or the store owner decides to file charges because you didn't.
No one other than an intern gets hired off of a simple certification.
The general progression is that you get a cert and find work in the field. Then, you have two sections on your resume; certifications and experience.
If someone has a CCNA and 4 years working on switches and routers, why should he go back and take the CCNA again? Just so he can verify he knows RIP or CIDR? Two or three simple questions can determine that at interview time.
The people who work in IT generally stay up on current tech better than the certification mills. Those who don't will end up on a hell desk and it will be reflected in their resume.
Use the admin account (and shares; $C, $D, etc...) to map their hard drive remotely to a computer in the networking office. Then, use RSYNC (or SyncToy) to mirror the drive remotely. Once the initial backup is complete, daily or weekly jobs will progress quickly.
You really have to find a way to work around the guys who are in charge.
If you want to be a bit more nefarious, start the backup jobs first thing in the morning. When the boss complains his system is slow, do a backup/format/reinstall on his system. Now his system is magically fast again...
I guess it depends on where you live, but having food and water stored isn't always useful. In the event of a disaster, you may be required to move quickly. Will you have time to gather supplies?
Water is, by far, the toughest problem. You need about a gallon per day per person. Each gallon is about, what, 8lb? Very hard to move that.
Personally, I think that everyone needs, in this order:
1. Water purification system (either a gallon of bleach or chlorine tablets) 2. Case of MREs (12 packs per case and 1500 calories per pack) 3. Pistol with ammunition 4. Rifle with scope and ammunition 5. Multi tool
Being able to filter and purify water will be much more useful in the long run. Practice mixing bleach and water and get used to the taste. It will smell and taste a bit like bleach, but it won't kill you. Add some drink mix (from the MREs) to help the kids out.
A single MRE will last a single person 2 days. It won't be pleasant, but it can be done.
The pistol is to keep anyone from taking your stuff.
The rifle is to hunt animals. Learn to shoot, dress, and cook a rabbit. Dogs and cats would be dressed in much the same way. Just tell everyone it's a rabbit and they won't have to think about it.
Also, this isn't really a new product. In fact, it looks identical to the E-Cig products. I know quite a few people who use them and they love them. If you just want to smoke, they offer that option virtually anywhere. No one can really complain about second-hand smoke; there is no smoke. One of my friends even fires his up in restaurants after a meal.
If you want to quit smoking, they offer a pack with diminishing levels of nicotine. You can overcome the physical dependence on the drug while still keeping your hands occupied.
Finally, they have flavored packs; both with and without nicotine.
In most cable vaults, the analog phone lines are bundled into a pretty thick, waterproof cable. The cable is either filled with petroleum jelly or pressurized with air. It's rare that water gets into a system and shorts it out.
When you start looking at junction boxes and wall jacks, the lines are usually separated by enough distance that the normal voltages won't short out.
I know I'm being silly here, but I actually read *some* of the JAMA article. In the paper I saw, they were testing to see if GB had any effect on *older* patients with cognitive degeneration.
So, if you are 70 and you take GB because you think it'll improve your memory, you are probably SOL. If you are 30 and you take it because you want a quick boost, you are probably getting what you pay for.
A very good question. If someone went *all out* and coded the Control Panel and the MMC, it might be okay. But as far as the primary desktop, I really see no need.
As for the underlying stuff, it would allow people already familiar with Windows (MCSEs mostly) to make an easier transition. Looking at Ubuntu, 99% of the functionality is the same. I can setup screensavers (and power profiles), configure networks (including wireless), and install/remove programs. If someone emulated that stuff, my peers would have one less system of clicks to learn.
Particularly, I wish the MMC was better emulated inside Ubuntu. I can partition drives, start and stop services, add users and groups, control file shares, and check the system logs from inside one interface.
And the hardcore people (script gurus and PowerShell users) could (would probably) always learn the underlying systems.
So, you'd like to see a world where cops arrest people and there is no record of who they arrested or why? What cops do should be kept on a public record.
Personally, I think doing *some* things (like public service work) in the open is good. Especially things that affect the public as a whole. If some town is arresting 10 people for DUIs every night, then maybe that town needs to look at how to bring down DUIs. If 9 of those people plead "not guilty" and a jury agrees, then the town should look at why cops are arresting non-drunks.
>>In the mid-90s, we got BRI (ISDN, 2*64 kbps in most of the world, 2*56 kbps in the US). Which pretty much ended the modem era, except for in the US and UK, where 56 kbps POTS modems reigned supreme until well after the millennium.
Really? I assumed that by the late 90s, the US had transitioned to 8-bit sampling. I mean, DS-0 in the US has been 64kbps (8-bit samples * 8000 samples per second) since, what, the 50s?
This should be the brief history of the personal PC modem.
There was no mention of the tons of ISDN modems used until the late 90s.
No mention of Codex or Pairgain devices. We had 64kbps, leased-line Codex modems humming along until, well, even today you'll find an odd one laying around. And T-1 Pairgains (not technically models) are still the best way to service outlying buildings on most campuses.
I understand that not every article can be complete. But you really can't talk about the history of modems without Pairgain (now ADC) and Codex.
WRT issue 1. We have SSH forwarded to an internal box. If we need to admin something inside from outside, we SSH (or TightVNC) internally and then jump from there.
WRT issue 2. Pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about. Most torrents have Peer Exchange on Local Peer Discovery enabled now. I'm looking at a torrent right now and I see several clients on my private subnet.
WRT issue 3. If you have public-facing services, they need to be in the DMZ. You can put the web server in the DMZ and then put the database server inside the firewall and create a tunnel from outside to inside. We do the same thing with our email servers, web servers, and DNS servers.
>>Whoever actually does this twittering crap is liable for slander charges, unless the person accused is found guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers.
No. You *were* arrested for DUI. That is a plain fact. You may or may not have been drunk; that is another matter. But you *were* arrested.
Most people just drive on an expired/revoked license anyway.
If they really wanted to be tough, they would press for a felony conviction based on attempted murder. Anyone in the car would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
They could also, you know, stop letting bars have parking lots...
If you work a pure Cisco environment, talk to your Cisco guy about getting Packet Tracer. Emulates a few routers and a lot of switches. It works really well. Plus, 5.1 adds virtual networking. You can design several networks on several laptops and then join those networks over a virtual internet.
Agreed. In my office, we have a Cisco ASA with about 3000 client devices behind a single public IP. We have no real problems dealing with the vast majority of web services. People can play WoW, chat on Skype/MSN/Yahoo, watch videos on YouTube, and post comments on/. Hell, even bittorrent works well enough that we are considering a packetshaper to reclaim some of our bandwidth. We currently average about 200mbps up and down per day.
It can take a long time to probate a Will. And how many people actually have Wills anyway? Everyone *should*; most don't.
And while you are getting it all sorted out, lawyers will tell you to keep paying the bills (out of the estate, if possible) and then try and get reimbursed once things are settled.
I like the idea of "loser pays" until you need to file a suit against someone with unlimited resources. Personally, I'd like to see the method amended to only cover the cost of the lowest fees.
In other words, if you sue me and you spend $1000/hour on legal, but I only spend $100/hour, I only have to reimburse you for $100/hour. If your total fees were $100,000 and mine were only $10,000, I'd have to pay you $10,000 in "loser pays" fees.
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Your first point only holds true at current prices. As more people come into the "modern" era, the prices will go up. In short, those who are now in 3rd world conditions can never really get out of those conditions in an oil-based economy.
I think OpenFalcon or FreeFalcon would be a better starting point. Both are fairly realistic in their modeling of the F-16. I think OF is out of development now; it's been shut down a while. But FreeFalcon just had a major release and it's a *very* nice sim.
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Personally, I'm opposed to the GS laws for a number of reasons.
One of the biggest things is that a lot of people have no idea how to offer first aid. Simple mistakes in early care can cause more harm than good. For instance, if someone is in shock, how many people know not to let them eat, drink, or smoke? Someone is in an accident and you help them light a cigarette or give them a bottle of water and now you've made things worse.
How many people know CPR? Or will they just try and emulate what they saw Doctor House doing?
This leads me to my second problem: someone will get to look at what I did and how I did it. If I could have done better, will there be consequences?
What if I honestly don't see something going on? Will I be hauled into court because I was thinking about some difficult problem when I walked past a crime scene?
What if I feel that interfering would endanger my life? If the law says, "don't get involved but call 911." Well, what happens when the guy robbing the store sees you dialing and decides to shoot you? Or the store owner decides to file charges because you didn't.
No one other than an intern gets hired off of a simple certification.
The general progression is that you get a cert and find work in the field. Then, you have two sections on your resume; certifications and experience.
If someone has a CCNA and 4 years working on switches and routers, why should he go back and take the CCNA again? Just so he can verify he knows RIP or CIDR? Two or three simple questions can determine that at interview time.
The people who work in IT generally stay up on current tech better than the certification mills. Those who don't will end up on a hell desk and it will be reflected in their resume.
Use the admin account (and shares; $C, $D, etc...) to map their hard drive remotely to a computer in the networking office. Then, use RSYNC (or SyncToy) to mirror the drive remotely. Once the initial backup is complete, daily or weekly jobs will progress quickly.
You really have to find a way to work around the guys who are in charge.
If you want to be a bit more nefarious, start the backup jobs first thing in the morning. When the boss complains his system is slow, do a backup/format/reinstall on his system. Now his system is magically fast again...
I'd rather be done Mellified Man Style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_Man
I guess it depends on where you live, but having food and water stored isn't always useful. In the event of a disaster, you may be required to move quickly. Will you have time to gather supplies?
Water is, by far, the toughest problem. You need about a gallon per day per person. Each gallon is about, what, 8lb? Very hard to move that.
Personally, I think that everyone needs, in this order:
1. Water purification system (either a gallon of bleach or chlorine tablets)
2. Case of MREs (12 packs per case and 1500 calories per pack)
3. Pistol with ammunition
4. Rifle with scope and ammunition
5. Multi tool
Being able to filter and purify water will be much more useful in the long run. Practice mixing bleach and water and get used to the taste. It will smell and taste a bit like bleach, but it won't kill you. Add some drink mix (from the MREs) to help the kids out.
A single MRE will last a single person 2 days. It won't be pleasant, but it can be done.
The pistol is to keep anyone from taking your stuff.
The rifle is to hunt animals. Learn to shoot, dress, and cook a rabbit. Dogs and cats would be dressed in much the same way. Just tell everyone it's a rabbit and they won't have to think about it.
Also, this isn't really a new product. In fact, it looks identical to the E-Cig products. I know quite a few people who use them and they love them. If you just want to smoke, they offer that option virtually anywhere. No one can really complain about second-hand smoke; there is no smoke. One of my friends even fires his up in restaurants after a meal.
If you want to quit smoking, they offer a pack with diminishing levels of nicotine. You can overcome the physical dependence on the drug while still keeping your hands occupied.
Finally, they have flavored packs; both with and without nicotine.
I've never tried this. And I don't know if the phone would still ring; ring voltage is 90 volts so it might short.
If you really *need* to know, get a phone cord and strip the insulation off of it and then shove it in some muddy water.
In most cable vaults, the analog phone lines are bundled into a pretty thick, waterproof cable. The cable is either filled with petroleum jelly or pressurized with air. It's rare that water gets into a system and shorts it out.
When you start looking at junction boxes and wall jacks, the lines are usually separated by enough distance that the normal voltages won't short out.
I know I'm being silly here, but I actually read *some* of the JAMA article. In the paper I saw, they were testing to see if GB had any effect on *older* patients with cognitive degeneration.
So, if you are 70 and you take GB because you think it'll improve your memory, you are probably SOL. If you are 30 and you take it because you want a quick boost, you are probably getting what you pay for.
A very good question. If someone went *all out* and coded the Control Panel and the MMC, it might be okay. But as far as the primary desktop, I really see no need.
As for the underlying stuff, it would allow people already familiar with Windows (MCSEs mostly) to make an easier transition. Looking at Ubuntu, 99% of the functionality is the same. I can setup screensavers (and power profiles), configure networks (including wireless), and install/remove programs. If someone emulated that stuff, my peers would have one less system of clicks to learn.
Particularly, I wish the MMC was better emulated inside Ubuntu. I can partition drives, start and stop services, add users and groups, control file shares, and check the system logs from inside one interface.
And the hardcore people (script gurus and PowerShell users) could (would probably) always learn the underlying systems.
So, you'd like to see a world where cops arrest people and there is no record of who they arrested or why? What cops do should be kept on a public record.
Personally, I think doing *some* things (like public service work) in the open is good. Especially things that affect the public as a whole. If some town is arresting 10 people for DUIs every night, then maybe that town needs to look at how to bring down DUIs. If 9 of those people plead "not guilty" and a jury agrees, then the town should look at why cops are arresting non-drunks.
My understanding is that only applies to a single DS-0 inside the frame or superframe. I think it's channels 0 and 12 for a standard T-1.
In any event, 2B+D has an additional, out of band, signaling channel to cover this.
>>In the mid-90s, we got BRI (ISDN, 2*64 kbps in most of the world, 2*56 kbps in the US). Which pretty much ended the modem era, except for in the US and UK, where 56 kbps POTS modems reigned supreme until well after the millennium.
Really? I assumed that by the late 90s, the US had transitioned to 8-bit sampling. I mean, DS-0 in the US has been 64kbps (8-bit samples * 8000 samples per second) since, what, the 50s?
This should be the brief history of the personal PC modem.
There was no mention of the tons of ISDN modems used until the late 90s.
No mention of Codex or Pairgain devices. We had 64kbps, leased-line Codex modems humming along until, well, even today you'll find an odd one laying around. And T-1 Pairgains (not technically models) are still the best way to service outlying buildings on most campuses.
I understand that not every article can be complete. But you really can't talk about the history of modems without Pairgain (now ADC) and Codex.
WRT issue 1. We have SSH forwarded to an internal box. If we need to admin something inside from outside, we SSH (or TightVNC) internally and then jump from there.
WRT issue 2. Pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about. Most torrents have Peer Exchange on Local Peer Discovery enabled now. I'm looking at a torrent right now and I see several clients on my private subnet.
WRT issue 3. If you have public-facing services, they need to be in the DMZ. You can put the web server in the DMZ and then put the database server inside the firewall and create a tunnel from outside to inside. We do the same thing with our email servers, web servers, and DNS servers.
>>Whoever actually does this twittering crap is liable for slander charges, unless the person accused is found guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers.
No. You *were* arrested for DUI. That is a plain fact. You may or may not have been drunk; that is another matter. But you *were* arrested.
>>"Oh I see you had a DUI 32 years ago .. sorry we can't employ convicts here"
Isn't that kinda the point? Drunk driving shows a lot about a person. Maybe you have decided you don't want those kinds of people in your company.
Is there anything wrong with that?
>>sorry we can't employ convicts here"
You'd never get that anyway. It would just be: "Sorry, we hired another candidate based on his qualifications."
Most people just drive on an expired/revoked license anyway.
If they really wanted to be tough, they would press for a felony conviction based on attempted murder. Anyone in the car would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
They could also, you know, stop letting bars have parking lots...
If you work a pure Cisco environment, talk to your Cisco guy about getting Packet Tracer. Emulates a few routers and a lot of switches. It works really well. Plus, 5.1 adds virtual networking. You can design several networks on several laptops and then join those networks over a virtual internet.
Agreed. In my office, we have a Cisco ASA with about 3000 client devices behind a single public IP. We have no real problems dealing with the vast majority of web services. People can play WoW, chat on Skype/MSN/Yahoo, watch videos on YouTube, and post comments on /. Hell, even bittorrent works well enough that we are considering a packetshaper to reclaim some of our bandwidth. We currently average about 200mbps up and down per day.
It can take a long time to probate a Will. And how many people actually have Wills anyway? Everyone *should*; most don't.
And while you are getting it all sorted out, lawyers will tell you to keep paying the bills (out of the estate, if possible) and then try and get reimbursed once things are settled.
So, set up a VM and then port it through WireShark. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out if it's communicating with some central server.
I like the idea of "loser pays" until you need to file a suit against someone with unlimited resources. Personally, I'd like to see the method amended to only cover the cost of the lowest fees.
In other words, if you sue me and you spend $1000/hour on legal, but I only spend $100/hour, I only have to reimburse you for $100/hour. If your total fees were $100,000 and mine were only $10,000, I'd have to pay you $10,000 in "loser pays" fees.
Your first point only holds true at current prices. As more people come into the "modern" era, the prices will go up. In short, those who are now in 3rd world conditions can never really get out of those conditions in an oil-based economy.
I think OpenFalcon or FreeFalcon would be a better starting point. Both are fairly realistic in their modeling of the F-16. I think OF is out of development now; it's been shut down a while. But FreeFalcon just had a major release and it's a *very* nice sim.
Get FF here: http://www.freefalcon.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14498
Here's the 5.3 patch: http://www.freefalcon.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16562