There was a movie in 1987 called "Cherry 2000". It was fun, but, um, odd... It did have Melanie Griffith in it, though;)
The plot summary from http://www.imdb.com/
In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. There, now you don't need to read the article...
I think that the problem that the WTO has is that the US allows US vendors to sell gambling activities to people who do not live in the US.
The do NOT allow US citizens to purchase gambling activities outside of the US.
The US believes something similar to: If you sell a product to your neighbour - this is ok. If your neighbour sells you the same product, this is illegal.
If the committee had been discussing another issue - say healthcare (or any issue that affects a group of people).
If one method of healthcare is being discussed, and a decision needs to be made based on it's merits, would you want to know if there were potential pitfalls to the proposal? Maybe healthcare isn't available on weekends, or that the healthcare practitioners don't have degrees in medicine. If you had this information, and you were chairman, would you feel it important to pass this information on, or would you leave it under your hat?
Having said that, I wouldn't apply for the position. Their trust doesn't appear to be worth it.
If you host all of your documentation on a website, take a look at ht://dig [http://www.htdig.org].
I've deployed it across a handful of servers, and it does a good job of crawling, but doesn't do well with javascript. If you have javascript for your web's frontend, you can write a shell script to find . -print, prepend the urls into a file, and point htdig at that file. It will dig into each file it finds, and create a searchable database of everything that it finds.
You add/cgi-bin/search.cgi to your page, and you can auto-magically search your documentation.
From my perspective, the product functions as advertised. It syncs' your mail while for you - even when you are not using the device. How would you expect this to happen? Osmosis?
Maybe they should add a decal to the box that says, "Warning: No magic happens in the normal operation of this device".
I would agree that they should clearly indicate in large print early in the manual that, "Warning: While you believe this device to be off, it is actually on periodically - checking for any new messages that may be awaiting your attention. After all, that's what you bought this device for, isn't it? Refer to your section n in this manual for information on how to disable this feature."
just can't feel blame the user for not wading through a technical document to figure that out This is a week argument. We're talking about the same people who would read an assembly diagram for shelving from IKEA - why wouldn't you expect them to offer the telephone manual a rudimentary perusal?
Well Analogy Man, I was thinking of a complete scale lower than cellular telephone. Something along the lines of paper, pencil, an envelope, and a couple of stamps. Think of it along the same lines as pay-per-use cellular telephone.
Sure, the response time is a bit slow, but you don't have to worry about hidden charges if you neglect to turn off your pencil.
These legacy devices would be affected by: - proximity to a radio transmission tower - proximity to a police officer's CB or walkie-talkie - proximity to a radar detector - proximity to a remote control airplane, car or boat - a myriad of other devices that cause radio interference...
Cellular telephones are *relatively* new, but if you've had a pacemaker for 10 years, there's a good chance that you've been near one of these devices / locations.
I would think that you if you lack sufficient skill to operate high-tech device [including understanding how to turn it off], you would restrict yourself to lower-tech devices.
As far as cellular telephone use in hospitals... this is a growing problem. I've had to take my son into "Emergency" at one of the hospitals in my city. There were no less than 10 people who answered calls in the waiting room. There are signs clearly posted - pictograms, written warnings in the 20 most widely used languages. At best, people are ambivalent about this rule. They know that they should turn off the phone, but the are worried that family members may be trying to contact them to know how someone is doing. At worst, they simply don't care.
Here's an article published Thursday - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070906-cell-phones-trigger-medical-equipment-failure.html. It's a good read, and suggests that the "rule" that we have been living by [in terms of cell phones in hospitals] is more strict than it needs to be, and that perhaps we should reevaluate these rules. Sadly, there will still be some people who's apathy will lead to major problems. We can only hope that nobody is seriously injured as a direct [or indirect] result of their selfish attitudes.
I seem to recall that you need at least 3 cell towers to triangulate a user's location. In a densely populated area, there would likely be more cell towers than in a suburban location. Walking around in an area with a larger number of cellular towers would cause a great deal of signal 'bounce' - moving from tower to tower - and would likely make tracing the call a bit more difficult.
Disclaimer: Everything that I know about how cell phones work is 2nd or 3rd hand, having no industry experience myself.
Each of the three most common metals used in catalytic converters (palladium, platinum and rhodium) are worth a bundle. But you'd be hard pressed to get more than about $50 worth of material from each catalyst. Aa lot of work with a lot of risk for such a low return.
Pay-per-use cellular phones would be difficult to trace (although chances are good that you could at least narrow it down to the right area code...) Any thoughts on how easy it would be to trace an IP telephone based call? I'm pretty sure that there are enough proxies out there to make this a nightmare in and of itself.
Some things just aren't as easy as they might seem...
.034% of people trying to enter the US have been identified as being on a watch list.
Why stop at finger printing people entering the US? Start grabbing this information as people *leave* the US. Then, to make the process easier, just tatoo everyone with a number on their forearm. Wait a second...
I think that this will have some ramifications that the DHS just aren't seeing. Like an overall decrease in the diversity of tourists and immigrants. Or potentially crippling the travel industry completely. How many times will everyone in an airport be detained due to the computer systems - those that the security applications run on - being down?
Security *always* comes at the expense of convenience. Unfortunately, this only serves to promote a *false* sense of security. Unless you can wrap an impenetrable blanket completely around the nation, you will never be safe. Even so, you would still only be safe from foreign intervention. It will not prevent home-grown crime.
I think that you need to put an end to your DHS before you discover that you have no rights left to defend.
If you reread my post, you will see that I wasn't "dumping" on Emacs. Take it for it was - an analysis of lightweight versus NOT lightweight with a sprig of humour thrown in. You will notice that I do, in fact, relate that Emacs is *NOT* a bad product.
Talk to your analyst - perhaps they can help you to deal with your hostility.
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The plot summary from http://www.imdb.com/ In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. There, now you don't need to read the article...
I think that the problem that the WTO has is that the US allows US vendors to sell gambling activities to people who do not live in the US.
The do NOT allow US citizens to purchase gambling activities outside of the US.
The US believes something similar to:
If you sell a product to your neighbour - this is ok.
If your neighbour sells you the same product, this is illegal.
But, I may be over-simplifying.
OK, let's step back a moment.
If the committee had been discussing another issue - say healthcare (or any issue that affects a group of people).
If one method of healthcare is being discussed, and a decision needs to be made based on it's merits, would you want to know if there were potential pitfalls to the proposal? Maybe healthcare isn't available on weekends, or that the healthcare practitioners don't have degrees in medicine. If you had this information, and you were chairman, would you feel it important to pass this information on, or would you leave it under your hat?
Having said that, I wouldn't apply for the position. Their trust doesn't appear to be worth it.
Interesting.
From your comment, this is what it sounds like to me:
I, as a "person in a position of trust", cannot provide you with information that you are lacking so that you can make an informed decision.
How does this make me worthy of trust?
I agree. He is, after all, just the chairman.
Maybe someone should send the board a copy of Robert's Rules of Order, and get this guy back into the position that he apparently belongs in.
If you host all of your documentation on a website, take a look at ht://dig [http://www.htdig.org].
/cgi-bin/search.cgi to your page, and you can auto-magically search your documentation.
I've deployed it across a handful of servers, and it does a good job of crawling, but doesn't do well with javascript. If you have javascript for your web's frontend, you can write a shell script to find . -print, prepend the urls into a file, and point htdig at that file. It will dig into each file it finds, and create a searchable database of everything that it finds.
You add
- Avron
Excuse, but I believe that you have my Swingline(tm)....
No it isn't.
Maybe they should add a decal to the box that says, "Warning: No magic happens in the normal operation of this device".
I would agree that they should clearly indicate in large print early in the manual that, "Warning: While you believe this device to be off, it is actually on periodically - checking for any new messages that may be awaiting your attention. After all, that's what you bought this device for, isn't it? Refer to your section n in this manual for information on how to disable this feature." just can't feel blame the user for not wading through a technical document to figure that out This is a week argument. We're talking about the same people who would read an assembly diagram for shelving from IKEA - why wouldn't you expect them to offer the telephone manual a rudimentary perusal?
Well Analogy Man, I was thinking of a complete scale lower than cellular telephone. Something along the lines of paper, pencil, an envelope, and a couple of stamps. Think of it along the same lines as pay-per-use cellular telephone.
Sure, the response time is a bit slow, but you don't have to worry about hidden charges if you neglect to turn off your pencil.
These legacy devices would be affected by:
- proximity to a radio transmission tower
- proximity to a police officer's CB or walkie-talkie
- proximity to a radar detector
- proximity to a remote control airplane, car or boat
- a myriad of other devices that cause radio interference...
Cellular telephones are *relatively* new, but if you've had a pacemaker for 10 years, there's a good chance that you've been near one of these devices / locations.
I would think that you if you lack sufficient skill to operate high-tech device [including understanding how to turn it off], you would restrict yourself to lower-tech devices.
As far as cellular telephone use in hospitals... this is a growing problem. I've had to take my son into "Emergency" at one of the hospitals in my city. There were no less than 10 people who answered calls in the waiting room. There are signs clearly posted - pictograms, written warnings in the 20 most widely used languages. At best, people are ambivalent about this rule. They know that they should turn off the phone, but the are worried that family members may be trying to contact them to know how someone is doing. At worst, they simply don't care.
Here's an article published Thursday - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070906-cell-phones-trigger-medical-equipment-failure.html. It's a good read, and suggests that the "rule" that we have been living by [in terms of cell phones in hospitals] is more strict than it needs to be, and that perhaps we should reevaluate these rules. Sadly, there will still be some people who's apathy will lead to major problems. We can only hope that nobody is seriously injured as a direct [or indirect] result of their selfish attitudes.
I seem to recall that you need at least 3 cell towers to triangulate a user's location. In a densely populated area, there would likely be more cell towers than in a suburban location. Walking around in an area with a larger number of cellular towers would cause a great deal of signal 'bounce' - moving from tower to tower - and would likely make tracing the call a bit more difficult.
Disclaimer: Everything that I know about how cell phones work is 2nd or 3rd hand, having no industry experience myself.
Each of the three most common metals used in catalytic converters (palladium, platinum and rhodium) are worth a bundle. But you'd be hard pressed to get more than about $50 worth of material from each catalyst. Aa lot of work with a lot of risk for such a low return.
Well...
Pay-per-use cellular phones would be difficult to trace (although chances are good that you could at least narrow it down to the right area code...)
Any thoughts on how easy it would be to trace an IP telephone based call? I'm pretty sure that there are enough proxies out there to make this a nightmare in and of itself.
Some things just aren't as easy as they might seem...
Maybe we'd like to do the right thing here for a dollar amount that gets closer to 0, too.
Fortunately for me, I'm happy enough with my games in XP - it's just a platform, after all.
Sorry, it's from the article - right at the end.
From the article: transferred to a U.S. device that can generate potable water.
.034% of people trying to enter the US have been identified as being on a watch list.
Why stop at finger printing people entering the US? Start grabbing this information as people *leave* the US. Then, to make the process easier, just tatoo everyone with a number on their forearm. Wait a second...
I think that this will have some ramifications that the DHS just aren't seeing. Like an overall decrease in the diversity of tourists and immigrants. Or potentially crippling the travel industry completely. How many times will everyone in an airport be detained due to the computer systems - those that the security applications run on - being down?
Security *always* comes at the expense of convenience. Unfortunately, this only serves to promote a *false* sense of security. Unless you can wrap an impenetrable blanket completely around the nation, you will never be safe. Even so, you would still only be safe from foreign intervention. It will not prevent home-grown crime.
I think that you need to put an end to your DHS before you discover that you have no rights left to defend.
[can't avoid making this reply - sorry!]
Nothin' I hate more than a smug phone...
If you reread my post, you will see that I wasn't "dumping" on Emacs. Take it for it was - an analysis of lightweight versus NOT lightweight with a sprig of humour thrown in. You will notice that I do, in fact, relate that Emacs is *NOT* a bad product.
Talk to your analyst - perhaps they can help you to deal with your hostility.
Dude - you need to learn to relax.