I'm another person who's tried that, when I was working varied shifts at a 24-hour sandwich shop for a few years. I thought it was great-- for once, it seemed that there were enough hours in the day. The only down side was that I still worked 8x5 rather than 4x10, so my "weekend" was only one day. Of course, I'm rather nocturnal in disposition to begin with, so I wouldn't recommend it to most.
...and presuming that they are being effectively watched, it doesn't mean that what is said is being understood Yet another reason for geeks to learn Klingon....
Yeah, some funding into multi-person computer voice recognition/transcription might be nice, but translation is the key. Right now the bottleneck is the limited number of Arabic speakers. Perhaps adding a mandatory fast short course in Arabic to military training might be helpful. Do it immersive, and do it like the marines teach hand to hand: "Ladies, I'm here to teach you enough to get yourself killed."
There is a difference between winning a judgement, and collecting it. Even best case scenario, I'd guess the collected amount will lose at least one zero off the judgement.
The Lord of the Rings survived, largely because the whole operation was backed by a legion of obsessively deranged fanatics up to and including Peter Jackson, and because the money men had the balls to cough up over a quarter gigabuck to make the thing without choking. (I wonder if we could get a hyperdrive by putting Steve Jobs and Peter Jackson in the same room....)
Some of Crichton's SF transitions smoothly... largely because his SF is even a best workmanlike but uninspired.
Steven King's Firestarter did all right, but I attribute that in part to Drew Barrymore being talented even then (not to mention cute as a button). Several people without my Barrymore fixation have told me the movie is a turkey, so I may be reaching here.
So, even reaching, I can name maybe three novels that did well in the transition. (Crichton wrote more than one? You obviously haven't read them closely.) If we add in the TV version of Dune and Children Of Dune, you might get one more author.
And he did the popular abridgement of the original text by Morganstern
Another gullible victim. There is no Morgenstern, save Goldman. In the voice commentary on one DVD edition, he tells how he got the title: he asked his daughters what he should write about. "A Princess" said one; "A Bride" said the other.
They have done one or two cool things; the broadcast of the John DeLancie/Leonard Nimoy "radio" plays in their "Alien Voices" team up sticks out as something interesting and somewhat different. Of course, they had two of Trek's biggest actors pushing the thing, and it was shown on a low-demand timeslot, but they did the experiment.
Mind you, the ratings didn't scream skyward like a rocket (so to speak), and so it was pretty-much a one-time experiment.
The observation has been made that the SciFi channel is essentaially a B movie studio subsidising its production costs by running a cable channel.
Um. Evidently I seem to be suffering from a minor demonic possession. Excuse me while I consult with the neighborhood exorcist, and re-read my.sig line.
Or hack into a bank without getting caught. If you're careful, you'll probably find a noticable demand for your services in certain circles.
Of course, statute of limitations does eventually run out, if you stay within the country and don't get caught; something like three years for grand theft, five years for wire fraud, and six years for the tax evasion on your illegal "income". Of course, some vary from state to state, and I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what other charges they might throw at you.
No, I have no intention of discussing my personal retirement plans with you. =)
Must be a college student majoring in Construction Management, Supply Line Management, or related Facilities/Logistics field
Have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
Must possess strong written and oral communication skills
Eligible to obtain a high-level security clearance
Must have reliable transportation to and from work
As noted, this year is out-- they take applications from August 1 through November 15 for the following summer. However, the first requirement is likely to be the deal-breaker. The student states they are in a "computer security and investigations" program-- this strongly suggests the querent is in the Fleming College program, in Ontario, Canada.
Also the benefits from bothering to learn it are slim to none
They may also have an instinctive understanding of Robert Glass's sixth Fact: "New tools and techniques cause an initial loss of productivity/quality." Admittedly, he was talking about software engineering, but the principle is far more generally applicable.
Does the Whitehouse know that GPS is essential to timing many things such as the power grid?
For those curious about this use of GPS, a reference.
Based on the information in the reference, and what (very little) I remember of power engineering from my nuclear engineering classes, this would be of most critical importance when taking generation systems on and off the grid. This is not something that happens every minute, but is something that happens every day. Moreover, one of the likely targets for terror attack would be a nuclear plant. If a terror scenario involves the need for an emergency shutdown of a nuke plant to marginally reduce the consequences of someone flying a plane into it, removing the GPS sync signal would increase the phase sync complications for the rest of the grid, increasing the likelihood of brownouts or blackouts-- not to mention, damage to multi-million dollar generators and/or turbines in the plants still operating if the phase shift gets bad enough.
I haven't been able to find the actual announcement on any.gov site; pretty much everyone is carrying the AP story verbatim, so the plan isn't clear (and may not be finalized). If they merely degrade the civilian signal again, that's one thing; if, on the other hand, they turn GPS off completely in some area, that's a much hairier mess entirely.
Name two developers that wrote/designed/coded the game you really like...
Feargus Urquhart, the man with the funny name of (the late and lamented) Black Isle Studio, and Fallout fame.
Ummm... Mike Stephenson, one of many from the NetHack DevTeam.
Mind you, those are the ONLY two I can name without searching Google. Of course, one of the things a well done awards show might do is shine a little more light on some of the developers....
The Wired article mentions that Wales searched Google for "Liv Tyler Nude". Of course, that standard would make an awful lot of teenage boys "pornagraphers", too.
However, the Wikipedia article on Bomis, Wales' company, mentions that they also sell "erotic images" over the internet. Several non-WorkSafe links off the article to computers off Bomis.com are persuasive evidence.
The Windows XP code base includes all of the extraneous crap that gets bundled with and on top of the kernel.
This is what you get for integrating your web browser into your operating system. Legality aside, there was a low cunning to that business move when M$ did it. Now, however, that decision is coming back to bite them on the tender bits: the browser is part of the OS, ergo bugs in the browser count as bugs in the OS.
Ground beef is nasty stuff. You wouldn't want to see the room where ground beef is produced.
Been there, done that. I worked several years in food service before going to IT, and the only reason I still eat hamburger (or out, for that matter) is a demonstrated massive resistance to food poisoning.
I also studied nuclear engineering before doing the food service, and have no qualms about irradiated food. Irradiated burger isn't THAT much pricier-- maybe as high as $4 a pound, instead of $3 per pound. Quality steak is a lot more (locally, anyhoo), and I'm not that fond of rare burgers. Given my druthers, I'd rather have the quality steak unground, especially given my (low-end) IT salary makes burgers more sensible.
The other members of the big five would be dumb as hell to support this by opening their catalogs up to it.
"conspiracy in restraint of trade?" I thought you could.
Of course, there's the question of whether the Bush administration Justice Department can, but that's likely blatant enough to get even their attention. Folk will probably open catalogs to AOL's music store, perhpas a little reluctantly, and probably not for any less than they charge iTunes.
All this in the name of safety, yet at the same time, you can't get irradiated beef...
Dunno where you are, but it's here in Virginia. For a while I was getting irradiated hamburger from the local supermarket. It was about 10-20% pricier than regular ground beef, but being able to enjoy a true "rare" burger every now and then it was worth it.
My usual store stopped carrying it-- the meat manager said it wasn't selling well enough. It was obvious when they put it on sale at a lower price than comparable unirradiated and still didn't sell near as well. There's another chain in town that still carried it last I checked, but since their prices are higher for most of my regular weekly groceries (frozen veggies, pre-cut salad mix, Purina Bachelor Chow, etc), I don't go there very often.
Maybe I'm being dense, but that doesn't seem like it'll diagnose any kind of problem that would matter...
Well, if the machine gives a substantially different total than before, you've definitely got a problem that would matter! Using this a test for vote tampering is likely to have a very high false negative rate, but a very low false positve. Not massively useful, but not completely useless.
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I'm another person who's tried that, when I was working varied shifts at a 24-hour sandwich shop for a few years. I thought it was great-- for once, it seemed that there were enough hours in the day. The only down side was that I still worked 8x5 rather than 4x10, so my "weekend" was only one day. Of course, I'm rather nocturnal in disposition to begin with, so I wouldn't recommend it to most.
After all, they can still get together and meet in person. Obviously we also need to eliminate all modern transportation systems, too.
Yeah, some funding into multi-person computer voice recognition/transcription might be nice, but translation is the key. Right now the bottleneck is the limited number of Arabic speakers. Perhaps adding a mandatory fast short course in Arabic to military training might be helpful. Do it immersive, and do it like the marines teach hand to hand: "Ladies, I'm here to teach you enough to get yourself killed."
Her physics stinks. Her anthropology, on the other hand, is brilliant enough that her novels have been used in undergraduate anthropology classes.
Some of Crichton's SF transitions smoothly... largely because his SF is even a best workmanlike but uninspired.
Steven King's Firestarter did all right, but I attribute that in part to Drew Barrymore being talented even then (not to mention cute as a button). Several people without my Barrymore fixation have told me the movie is a turkey, so I may be reaching here.
So, even reaching, I can name maybe three novels that did well in the transition. (Crichton wrote more than one? You obviously haven't read them closely.) If we add in the TV version of Dune and Children Of Dune, you might get one more author.
Face it: "the intellectual capacity of an artichoke" is a normal state for a studio head.
Another gullible victim. There is no Morgenstern, save Goldman. In the voice commentary on one DVD edition, he tells how he got the title: he asked his daughters what he should write about. "A Princess" said one; "A Bride" said the other.
Mind you, the ratings didn't scream skyward like a rocket (so to speak), and so it was pretty-much a one-time experiment.
The observation has been made that the SciFi channel is essentaially a B movie studio subsidising its production costs by running a cable channel.
Or hack into a bank without getting caught. If you're careful, you'll probably find a noticable demand for your services in certain circles.
Of course, statute of limitations does eventually run out, if you stay within the country and don't get caught; something like three years for grand theft, five years for wire fraud, and six years for the tax evasion on your illegal "income". Of course, some vary from state to state, and I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what other charges they might throw at you.
No, I have no intention of discussing my personal retirement plans with you. =)
Moreover, how many are at Canadian colleges with a "computer security and investigations" program?
The NSA's stated requirements...
Must be a U.S. citizen
Must be a college student majoring in Construction Management, Supply Line Management, or related Facilities/Logistics field
Have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
Must possess strong written and oral communication skills
Eligible to obtain a high-level security clearance
Must have reliable transportation to and from work
As noted, this year is out-- they take applications from August 1 through November 15 for the following summer. However, the first requirement is likely to be the deal-breaker. The student states they are in a "computer security and investigations" program-- this strongly suggests the querent is in the Fleming College program, in Ontario, Canada.
If so, inquiring whether the Communications Security Establishment has a comparable program; however, their student/coop page doesn't seem overly promising.
They may also have an instinctive understanding of Robert Glass's sixth Fact: "New tools and techniques cause an initial loss of productivity/quality." Admittedly, he was talking about software engineering, but the principle is far more generally applicable.
For those curious about this use of GPS, a reference.
Based on the information in the reference, and what (very little) I remember of power engineering from my nuclear engineering classes, this would be of most critical importance when taking generation systems on and off the grid. This is not something that happens every minute, but is something that happens every day. Moreover, one of the likely targets for terror attack would be a nuclear plant. If a terror scenario involves the need for an emergency shutdown of a nuke plant to marginally reduce the consequences of someone flying a plane into it, removing the GPS sync signal would increase the phase sync complications for the rest of the grid, increasing the likelihood of brownouts or blackouts-- not to mention, damage to multi-million dollar generators and/or turbines in the plants still operating if the phase shift gets bad enough.
I haven't been able to find the actual announcement on any .gov site; pretty much everyone is carrying the AP story verbatim, so the plan isn't clear (and may not be finalized). If they merely degrade the civilian signal again, that's one thing; if, on the other hand, they turn GPS off completely in some area, that's a much hairier mess entirely.
Feargus Urquhart, the man with the funny name of (the late and lamented) Black Isle Studio, and Fallout fame.
Ummm... Mike Stephenson, one of many from the NetHack DevTeam.
Mind you, those are the ONLY two I can name without searching Google. Of course, one of the things a well done awards show might do is shine a little more light on some of the developers....
However, the Wikipedia article on Bomis, Wales' company, mentions that they also sell "erotic images" over the internet. Several non-WorkSafe links off the article to computers off Bomis.com are persuasive evidence.
This is what you get for integrating your web browser into your operating system. Legality aside, there was a low cunning to that business move when M$ did it. Now, however, that decision is coming back to bite them on the tender bits: the browser is part of the OS, ergo bugs in the browser count as bugs in the OS.
Been there, done that. I worked several years in food service before going to IT, and the only reason I still eat hamburger (or out, for that matter) is a demonstrated massive resistance to food poisoning.
I also studied nuclear engineering before doing the food service, and have no qualms about irradiated food. Irradiated burger isn't THAT much pricier-- maybe as high as $4 a pound, instead of $3 per pound. Quality steak is a lot more (locally, anyhoo), and I'm not that fond of rare burgers. Given my druthers, I'd rather have the quality steak unground, especially given my (low-end) IT salary makes burgers more sensible.
The obvious name for what AOL ultimately intends to go up against iTunes would be "meTu-nes".
"conspiracy in restraint of trade?" I thought you could.
Of course, there's the question of whether the Bush administration Justice Department can, but that's likely blatant enough to get even their attention. Folk will probably open catalogs to AOL's music store, perhpas a little reluctantly, and probably not for any less than they charge iTunes.
Probably not all that different, really. And there's also the possibility he may have been doing IT in the porn industry for much of it.
Dunno where you are, but it's here in Virginia. For a while I was getting irradiated hamburger from the local supermarket. It was about 10-20% pricier than regular ground beef, but being able to enjoy a true "rare" burger every now and then it was worth it.
My usual store stopped carrying it-- the meat manager said it wasn't selling well enough. It was obvious when they put it on sale at a lower price than comparable unirradiated and still didn't sell near as well. There's another chain in town that still carried it last I checked, but since their prices are higher for most of my regular weekly groceries (frozen veggies, pre-cut salad mix, Purina Bachelor Chow, etc), I don't go there very often.
Well, if the machine gives a substantially different total than before, you've definitely got a problem that would matter! Using this a test for vote tampering is likely to have a very high false negative rate, but a very low false positve. Not massively useful, but not completely useless.