VZW appeared heavily overloaded and calls were not going through. Additionally, text messages also appeared to be throttled or heavily delayed. If this was a result of jamming or some other technology to throttle the network, calls were being placed, they were not however providing audio. I received about 20 calls from my girlfriend who lives in the area and her calls were ringing through and "completing", but no audio was making it over the line. Calls I was placing appeared to ring through (five or six rings?) and made it to voicemail in most cases, although I did get a couple Verizon messages instead of the voicemail box.
Text messages we were sending each other were either extremely delayed or never made it at all (some did). I would go with the disaster norm of badly overloaded. We resorted to email via wifi instead of relying on the cell networks. When she took to the car to pick up her sister in South Boston (T services were shutdown in and around Boston), she was able to start completing calls and texts were making it through.
A racket for many, a valuable experience for few.
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As a never-went through age 22, I wore skipping college as a badge of pride while I tolled away at various dot coms and consulting companies. I did attempt to go back at 23, but did not appreciate the challenge and went back to work. I decided to restart my college education in my 30s and I have found a new appreciation for the courses taught. If a lesson is learned by a kid going to college, I believe it should not simply be how to buckle down and get work done, but how to critically think and logically examine the many sides of an issue. Personally, I was a pretty black and white thinker through my mid 20s---perhaps I just greyed out of that a little---and I do believe that college education helped me to recognize and analyze multiple opinions and viewpoints on a myriad of issues without being too quick to rush to judgement.
The conversion of a college degree into an MCSE style mill is undermining most of the value that a college diploma would add to a resume. In my initial college venture I encountered a lot of undergrads that seemed to believe that if you just showed up, you would get your diploma and upon graduation be rewarded with your new six figure job (pre-recession). I am not sure where that idea came from, but I felt bad for them. Tens of thousands of dollars of student debt, and limited post-college career prospects often netted well under 40k a year pay, for years, while they learned their actual career skills.
IMHO, the system has turned into a racket. There are a decreasing minority of students who try and make the most of the education and they are the ones who are most likely rewarded on a long-term timeline by their hard work. There also seems to be an increasing majority that treat it as High School Round 2. They simply show up physically, incur huge amounts of debt with no takeaway other than a piece of paper, and then move on to the next hurdle (law or grad school) and repeat the process. Having either type of student coming out into the workforce with massive amounts of debt doesn't seem like a great economy builder to me... Perhaps I am overreaching, but it seems like for-profit education and wreck-less fiscal accountability in the state schools has undermined the entire reason higher education exists, to internalize critical thinking, Socratic methods, and mold well rounded people that help the economy and civilization as a whole positively evolve.
Slashdot has been a daily read for many years, I think I have barely missed more than a few days of stories after all these years. Many thanks for years of news and entertainment (comments). Best of luck in your future endeavors.
And if I rephrase that. How many of these drivers were traveling at a speed that was safe for conditions below the posted limit. Or is there no feasible way for this to happen because your speed is automatically unsafe if you have no ability to stop at a yellow light.
The article doesn't state how many residents of the town were ticketed as opposed to out of town drivers passing through, but lets pretend it did. Nearly 50% of people in this town flagged, and a little under a quarter were ticketed.... in 3 short months? Not sure how many were drivers from outside the town, but that is a ridiculous sum. Change the law or scrap the camera, this is not working and is a burden to the citizens. I wonder how many traffic collisions will occur because people are slamming on the breaks trying to avoid getting ticketed.
How many of these drivers were traveling at a safe posted speed limit and caught a yellow on a rainy day and had no choice but to either enter a skidding sliding stop or get a ticket. and now due to their unfortunate luck have the added benefit of fighting this in court. Burden to the court, burden to the citizen and a significant expense of time and money. What a racket.
Perhaps Carvey as Perot on Waterworld was wrong... "You can't piss into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice".. Looks like we solved that little problem!
These open APIs are allowing developers to go so far beyond what Facebook was originally designed for, that it makes you wonder if these addins will spin off with their own system, eclipsing the original site. Mosoto http://www.mosoto.com/ doesn't just add IM style chat from your Facebook friends, but file sharing and streaming audio to everyone in your list as well.
I typically fly about twice a week. I have seen my Sprint phone get service during landing and takeoff, but almost never at altitude. I have never checked from an aisle seat. I almost always turn my phone off, unless I throw it in a jacket / bag in the overhead and forget.
Usually the problem is that my phone's battery is DOA when I land, no service = short battery life.
I really doubt the interference would be more than a freak occurance, but if every nut on the plane had a cell phone on, laptop and WIFI, and are making calls / setting up the in-flight lan party, I am sure the chance of that freak occurance would go up a good ammount. I can kinda buy into the theory of planes being shielded from the outside not the inside.
Anyone else notice that flights in the states for the past 6+ months have added the cabin door clause for everything? IE. you are not allowed to use anything electronic, even if on the ground in a long line for takeoff once you leave the gate. And your not allowed to use that cell if you just landed and are on taxi to the gate. Maybe it was always there and I just missed it.
I keep thinking of an old AOL massively multiplayer game of the old AD&D style. I believe it was around 1992, it has been offline for a long time, but was quite a bit of fun. Anyone remember? I liked that old game better then everquest, but AOL didn't exactly give you a lot of hours to logon with then, five or ten:P
That is without a doubt the best link I have ever had the opportunity to read on slashdot. It actually had me pumped up thinking about it. Sounds like that course is like going one on one with Tony Robbins on speed and actually going through basic. Kudos, for a year old story I am glad I had a chance to read it. I think its time to huck this pack of smokes in the trash and get motivated:)
If I recall correctly, ARIN sent notices to many ISPs requesting that if they are currently utilizing IP based virtual hosts that they stop,and start new sites using Name Based Virtual Hosting to conserve IPs.
No time to dig up article, it may still be on http://arin.net
This will certainly mess up any filtering software that bases it's blocking on IPs.
It was more fun before. I would love to see the site continue on in prosperity, but it seems like a difficult line to walk. You don't want to drive everyone away with irritating ads and banner bars, yet you wanna at least break even. Maybe more slashdot merchandise would help:P
Oh yeah, but they came out with a great chip before the Athlon, remember the 5x86!:) 133mhz 486 class chip that could actually turn an ailing half dead computer into something that could play quake full screen / play mp3s. You could even overclock it to around 160mhz!!! I ran two of those chips for years before the CPU fan died and it burned to a crisp while I was on vacation.
Actually this may get really bad before it gets better. I find that most computers are not actually thrown away, but sit in basements closets and attics for long periods of time.
Many people who purchased $2000 machines a few years ago find it is painful to throw it away with the garbage. I dont really blame them, but I would not find it hard to believe if most of the world's computers were sitting alone in the farthest corners of the average home.
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VZW appeared heavily overloaded and calls were not going through. Additionally, text messages also appeared to be throttled or heavily delayed. If this was a result of jamming or some other technology to throttle the network, calls were being placed, they were not however providing audio. I received about 20 calls from my girlfriend who lives in the area and her calls were ringing through and "completing", but no audio was making it over the line. Calls I was placing appeared to ring through (five or six rings?) and made it to voicemail in most cases, although I did get a couple Verizon messages instead of the voicemail box.
Text messages we were sending each other were either extremely delayed or never made it at all (some did). I would go with the disaster norm of badly overloaded. We resorted to email via wifi instead of relying on the cell networks. When she took to the car to pick up her sister in South Boston (T services were shutdown in and around Boston), she was able to start completing calls and texts were making it through.
As a never-went through age 22, I wore skipping college as a badge of pride while I tolled away at various dot coms and consulting companies. I did attempt to go back at 23, but did not appreciate the challenge and went back to work. I decided to restart my college education in my 30s and I have found a new appreciation for the courses taught. If a lesson is learned by a kid going to college, I believe it should not simply be how to buckle down and get work done, but how to critically think and logically examine the many sides of an issue. Personally, I was a pretty black and white thinker through my mid 20s---perhaps I just greyed out of that a little---and I do believe that college education helped me to recognize and analyze multiple opinions and viewpoints on a myriad of issues without being too quick to rush to judgement.
The conversion of a college degree into an MCSE style mill is undermining most of the value that a college diploma would add to a resume. In my initial college venture I encountered a lot of undergrads that seemed to believe that if you just showed up, you would get your diploma and upon graduation be rewarded with your new six figure job (pre-recession). I am not sure where that idea came from, but I felt bad for them. Tens of thousands of dollars of student debt, and limited post-college career prospects often netted well under 40k a year pay, for years, while they learned their actual career skills.
IMHO, the system has turned into a racket. There are a decreasing minority of students who try and make the most of the education and they are the ones who are most likely rewarded on a long-term timeline by their hard work. There also seems to be an increasing majority that treat it as High School Round 2. They simply show up physically, incur huge amounts of debt with no takeaway other than a piece of paper, and then move on to the next hurdle (law or grad school) and repeat the process. Having either type of student coming out into the workforce with massive amounts of debt doesn't seem like a great economy builder to me... Perhaps I am overreaching, but it seems like for-profit education and wreck-less fiscal accountability in the state schools has undermined the entire reason higher education exists, to internalize critical thinking, Socratic methods, and mold well rounded people that help the economy and civilization as a whole positively evolve.
Just my two cents
Slashdot has been a daily read for many years, I think I have barely missed more than a few days of stories after all these years. Many thanks for years of news and entertainment (comments). Best of luck in your future endeavors.
And if I rephrase that. How many of these drivers were traveling at a speed that was safe for conditions below the posted limit. Or is there no feasible way for this to happen because your speed is automatically unsafe if you have no ability to stop at a yellow light.
The article doesn't state how many residents of the town were ticketed as opposed to out of town drivers passing through, but lets pretend it did. Nearly 50% of people in this town flagged, and a little under a quarter were ticketed.... in 3 short months? Not sure how many were drivers from outside the town, but that is a ridiculous sum. Change the law or scrap the camera, this is not working and is a burden to the citizens. I wonder how many traffic collisions will occur because people are slamming on the breaks trying to avoid getting ticketed.
How many of these drivers were traveling at a safe posted speed limit and caught a yellow on a rainy day and had no choice but to either enter a skidding sliding stop or get a ticket. and now due to their unfortunate luck have the added benefit of fighting this in court. Burden to the court, burden to the citizen and a significant expense of time and money. What a racket.
Perhaps Carvey as Perot on Waterworld was wrong... "You can't piss into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice" .. Looks like we solved that little problem!
Doh! I was always wondering who was in front of me.
It seems like an even smaller limit when you consider that Verizon is charging $45.00 a month for that unlimited plan.
These open APIs are allowing developers to go so far beyond what Facebook was originally designed for, that it makes you wonder if these addins will spin off with their own system, eclipsing the original site. Mosoto http://www.mosoto.com/ doesn't just add IM style chat from your Facebook friends, but file sharing and streaming audio to everyone in your list as well.
Uhh.. An ignition key?
I typically fly about twice a week. I have seen my Sprint phone get service during landing and takeoff, but almost never at altitude. I have never checked from an aisle seat. I almost always turn my phone off, unless I throw it in a jacket / bag in the overhead and forget.
Usually the problem is that my phone's battery is DOA when I land, no service = short battery life.
I really doubt the interference would be more than a freak occurance, but if every nut on the plane had a cell phone on, laptop and WIFI, and are making calls / setting up the in-flight lan party, I am sure the chance of that freak occurance would go up a good ammount. I can kinda buy into the theory of planes being shielded from the outside not the inside.
Anyone else notice that flights in the states for the past 6+ months have added the cabin door clause for everything? IE. you are not allowed to use anything electronic, even if on the ground in a long line for takeoff once you leave the gate. And your not allowed to use that cell if you just landed and are on taxi to the gate. Maybe it was always there and I just missed it.
In other news, the first penguin road kill cases have been reported at mile markers 1-300. Whoops splat.
Guess its better than a moose.
Six? I guess signing up way back then was worth it... simply to reply to this comment hehe.
-Adam
Almost :) Happy B-Day /.
-Adam
Anyone notice it has pictures of three rings on each lcd? Just in case a confused reader isn't confused as to the functionality of this device.
And who is gonna foot the bill to put all this crap into what I hope by the time this is out a god damn tiny cell phone?
-Adma
I keep thinking of an old AOL massively multiplayer game of the old AD&D style. I believe it was around 1992, it has been offline for a long time, but was quite a bit of fun. Anyone remember? I liked that old game better then everquest, but AOL didn't exactly give you a lot of hours to logon with then, five or ten :P
-Adam
That is without a doubt the best link I have ever had the opportunity to read on slashdot. It actually had me pumped up thinking about it. Sounds like that course is like going one on one with Tony Robbins on speed and actually going through basic. Kudos, for a year old story I am glad I had a chance to read it. I think its time to huck this pack of smokes in the trash and get motivated :)
Me too!
If I recall correctly, ARIN sent notices to many ISPs requesting that if they are currently utilizing IP based virtual hosts that they stop,and start new sites using Name Based Virtual Hosting to conserve IPs.
No time to dig up article, it may still be on http://arin.net
This will certainly mess up any filtering software that bases it's blocking on IPs.
-Adam
It was more fun before. I would love to see the site continue on in prosperity, but it seems like a difficult line to walk. You don't want to drive everyone away with irritating ads and banner bars, yet you wanna at least break even. Maybe more slashdot merchandise would help :P
Oh yeah, but they came out with a great chip before the Athlon, remember the 5x86! :) 133mhz 486 class chip that could actually turn an ailing half dead computer into something that could play quake full screen / play mp3s. You could even overclock it to around 160mhz!!! I ran two of those chips for years before the CPU fan died and it burned to a crisp while I was on vacation.
-Adam
If only they jumped on the satelite radio bandwagon. Id plunk down the money just for that station. -Adam
Many people who purchased $2000 machines a few years ago find it is painful to throw it away with the garbage. I dont really blame them, but I would not find it hard to believe if most of the world's computers were sitting alone in the farthest corners of the average home.
Haha... me too. Thanks for the link, found my confirmation email today. *big assed grin*