Can someone explain how the federal government can fund a program whose sole purpose is clearly in violation of the first amendment?
The right-wing religious nuts can do whatever they want with their own money, but this seems like a phenomenal waste of my tax money.
Yeah, I pretty much went nuts in the gift shop myself... got a couple of cool Apollo posters and a NASA logo'd shirt that says "I Need My Space!".
http://www.thespaceshop.com/inemyspt.html
I also highly encourage everyone to actually GO to Kennedy Space Center. The have a lot of exhibits including a Saturn V rocket that's on it's side, indoors. It's only an hour's drive from Orlando and is a great way to spend a day. Unfortunately the tour of KSC doesn't allow you into the Vehicle Assembly Building.
From what the original poster's article said, this appears to be a valid method against the original Medeco and the Medeco Biaxial line...
Sorry, but I'm not buying the article the GP pointed to...it's simply saying "modify a diamond shaped lock pick...etc etc". I don't see how ANY lock picking solution can get around correctly rotating the pins so the holes line up with the sidebar. Added to that, there are many things to help defeat the constant tension during a pick, mushroom pins being one.
You seem to know a thing or two about Medeco locks (like the fact that there's a diff. between the original and Biaxial). If you know/see something about the article I don't, please let me know. My father worked for Medeco (and I briefly worked in their factory one summer) and I'm sure he'd love to know.
Also, last I heard, there was still a reward offered by Medeco for picking a lock at their headquarters in Salem VA.
Not only that but last I heard, Medeco offers a reward to anyone who can reliably (ie. consistently) defeat their locks. All he as to do is demonstrate that to them...wouldn't need to be public.
Stop and go traffic will KILL a battery.
It takes far more juice to accelerate than it does to maintain constant speed.
Wind drag is comparatively negligible.
Question: Are you basing that on supply/demand economics or is there a shortage of Lithium that you know of?
I would think that economy of scale would kick-in and the price would drop.
I only gave the clenched jaw as an example...certain noises certainly make me clench my jaw.
Nothing to do with clenched jaws, but closely related to anxiety and depression...
You just validated my argument for me... the headache is not caused by the noise, but by some other illness (eg. depression).
Headaches can be triggered by things, like sounds, but they are not caused by sounds. A good example of this type of correlation is PTSD.
This exactly what most people don't understand when it comes to disease: the cause-effect relationship.
Just because a small minority of people experience symptoms does not establish cause and effect.
If you take 100 people and sit them around a cell phone tower, and one person gets a headache, then we
cannot say the cell phone tower caused the headache, despite the fact that the person with the headache thinks so.
If, for example, there's a malfunctioning transformer in there giving of a barely-noticeable high-pitched buzzing noise, that could be giving a headache.
IANA psychiatrist, but I'd say that's still psychosomatic.
Noises, by themselves, do not cause headaches. The headache could be caused by the clenching of the jaw in response
to the noise however.
Here's a kind-of litmus test: If something makes you ill if you are asleep or in a coma (eg. you breath a toxic chemical and it burns your lungs),
THEN there is a cause-effect relationship.
Otherwise, there's just a correlation, and something else is the cause.
I once worked for a GSM handset manufacturer that had a couple of test BTS in the building and I can tell you that after a day of work there, I was suffering of anxiety, headaches and tiredness, but almost never during weekends. So you're tired and achy at work but feel relaxed on the weekends....
hmmmm.... I often have those same symptoms and I don't work around transmitters.
Yup. It's called psychosomatic and people will find any number or reasons to be ill due to it.
My wife use to work at an insect ID lab...she's an entomologist, and at least once a week someone
would send in a piece of fuzz or lint with a letter claiming that these bugs were making them sick.
Wether it's cell phone towers, power lines, non-existent bugs, or viruses you cant see, there are
some people who are convinced the world is out to get them, and it's not their fault.
I'm also confused about where the calls were originating from....
TFA mentions mentions making VoIP calls using your mobile phone.
Were these calls originating from T-Mobile cell phones? Using local WiFi or T-Mobiles internet?
I don't understand the mechanics of what the law suit is trying to settle.
One of the points that I missed in my original post is the general trend of vendors
to build this kind of proprietary crap into their systems. Not too long ago
a vendor would say "here's our routing system, it'll interface with your ACD systems and the major carriers, and here's the API to program it."
That's fine if you have people who actually know how to program...most large companies did until the tech sector started to balloon in the early 90s. Then it was: what software can we buy that any idiot could program. That's what IT management wanted and that's what many companies started to provide.
Thankfully, I mostly do "real" programming, or I would quit. I just happened to be the poor guy on call this week.
...about how mice are being applied to situations they are intrinsically poorly suited for.
Yeah, like computer programming.
I deal with a lot of different vendor products used for call routing and IVR applications. One thing that's happened
over the past 10 years is the move from text scripts to proprietary GUI based programming tools. I'm talking drag-n-drop
blocks that perform specific functions which "hook" together by dragging lines between them.
Generally, this is to make configuring the systems more accessible to people not properly trained (or trained at ALL)
in programming. ie. They're suppose to be good for writing error-free scripts.
Unfortunately, these poor tools in no way reduce the number of bugs that find their way into the system.
Additionally, they also have the following draw-backs:
* Absolutely no error handling (try, catch, etc.)
* No way to program function calls....once you choose a path, there's no going back...this results in TONS of duplicate code.
* No way to know exactly what those blocks are doing under-the-hood.
* You're limited by the functionality of the blocks provided by the vendor.
* Many difficulties with source-control systems and build-and-release procedures.
* Don't even get me started on what it's like to debug with these stupid things....
Just this morning I was paged at 5:45am because someone made a change to a script. It took me an hour
to find the problem because I had to zoom in and out, trying to get a feel of the layout, looking a block properties to see what's changed, etc.
It turned out the lines connecting the day-of-the-week block were set correctly: they had the Monday line connected to Sunday's code.
Talk about a fubar'd system.
They should be outlawed.
The first few versions of ZoneAlarm were great, however I've had a lot of problems with
the newer versions (ver 5+), esp with memory usage and the entire network stack becoming inoperable
until I rebooted.
I now rely on a nice router (DLink dgl-4300) with a proven track record for reliability, speed, etc., and has a built in firewall,
and as a last line of defense, the MS Windows firewall, which I agree is a joke, and AWFUL to configure, but has been very stable for me.
I would say HDCP is a far far bigger problem than HDMI for two reasons:
1. Most people aren't aware that it exists. This is a big problem since most computer monitors don't support it. Dell only came out with HDCP capable flat screens late 2006!
Anyone buying Vista or a new computer hoping to install a HD-DVD in it will probably not be able to get it to work because....
2. It has many of the same issues mentioned above that HDMI has: hodge-podge of rules and standards that result in components not being able to negotiate with each other. The consumer is left with expensive equipment that doesn't work and the manufacturer can point fingers at each other. And if you're doing all this on a computer it's far worse: the monitor, video card, and HD-DVD ROM all have to work together perfectly. Oh and you better have the right drivers on the right OS. Yeah, good luck.
BTW, Doesn't DVI support HDCP too?
My Mom bought a 52" rear-projection TV about 3 years ago
and it has a DVI connector on the back. No HDMI.
I don't own a hd-dvd/blueray player so I haven't tried pushing a HDCP enabled signal to it,
but I do have a HDMI to DVI cable that's hooked up to the cable box. (That cost $22 at WalMart.)
2. If your boss hired a single decent guy, say from eastern europe, on H1B to sit in that cube and work full time with you - you would have a different opinion about the relative merits of temporary work visas. My argument isn't over foreign workers. I'm pro-immigration, especially for people who are already educated.
I'm just saying that this use of H1-B visas is obviously NOT what was intended when they were created.
They were never designed to REPLACE American workers, which is what happened where I work. They are suppose to be used to temporarily hire foreign nationalists if NO AMERICAN could be found to fill the job.
Also, I know what you mean about the eastern Europeans. I know a few people from Russia and the Baltics and they're wicked smart (they usually speak 5 languages).
...and outlaw contracting on H1B,... Yes, Yes, YES!!!!
My employer outsourced a bunch of jobs two years ago to Infosys. Foolish me thought that the work would
be done overseas. Now there are 4 Indians sitting across from me, in the same cubes, working on the same
computers, and doing the same work that the Americans were doing before. Anyone who says H1-Bs aren't being
abused to replace domestic labor with cheap import labor has their head up their ass.
Well, they did build the Alaskan pipeline... I imagine that this project could be built as well. The Alaskan pipeline will be a piece of cake compared to running a railroad all the way to the west coast.
The terrain the pipeline runs on is in the middle of the state and is fairly flat and easy to navigate.
The terrain out west is insane... basically it's a bog with huge inland bodies of water to navigate around.
Oh, and did you know there's no railroad that connects Alaska with Canada/US???
Getting a train to the west coast much less UNDER AN OCEAN would take 50 years easy.
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Can someone explain how the federal government can fund a program whose sole purpose is clearly in violation of the first amendment?
The right-wing religious nuts can do whatever they want with their own money, but this seems like a phenomenal waste of my tax money.
If the figures quoted are correct, there's no-where near enough mass.
A planet would need ~6x Jupiter's mass to start a fusion reaction.
Correct. It's called MSDN... and now that they've gotten the MSDN2 site fixed it seems to have everything for all three versions of VS.
Yeah, I pretty much went nuts in the gift shop myself... got a couple of cool Apollo posters and a NASA logo'd shirt that says "I Need My Space!".
http://www.thespaceshop.com/inemyspt.html
I also highly encourage everyone to actually GO to Kennedy Space Center. The have a lot of exhibits including a Saturn V rocket that's on it's side, indoors. It's only an hour's drive from Orlando and is a great way to spend a day. Unfortunately the tour of KSC doesn't allow you into the Vehicle Assembly Building.
You seem to know a thing or two about Medeco locks (like the fact that there's a diff. between the original and Biaxial). If you know/see something about the article I don't, please let me know. My father worked for Medeco (and I briefly worked in their factory one summer) and I'm sure he'd love to know.
Also, last I heard, there was still a reward offered by Medeco for picking a lock at their headquarters in Salem VA.
Not only that but last I heard, Medeco offers a reward to anyone who can reliably (ie. consistently) defeat their locks. All he as to do is demonstrate that to them...wouldn't need to be public.
Stop and go traffic will KILL a battery.
It takes far more juice to accelerate than it does to maintain constant speed.
Wind drag is comparatively negligible.
Question: Are you basing that on supply/demand economics or is there a shortage of Lithium that you know of?
I would think that economy of scale would kick-in and the price would drop.
I challenge you to make a car for under $13k that will pass the TSA safety rules.
Also, I challenge you to make a cheap deep-cycle rechargeable battery. Granted, $35K sounds a bit steep.
I'm annoyed as hell I cant go out now and buy an electric car. My commute is 30 miles each way; surely within range for today's technology.
You just validated my argument for me... the headache is not caused by the noise, but by some other illness (eg. depression).
Headaches can be triggered by things, like sounds, but they are not caused by sounds. A good example of this type of correlation is PTSD.
This exactly what most people don't understand when it comes to disease: the cause-effect relationship.
Just because a small minority of people experience symptoms does not establish cause and effect.
If you take 100 people and sit them around a cell phone tower, and one person gets a headache, then we
cannot say the cell phone tower caused the headache, despite the fact that the person with the headache thinks so.
IANA psychiatrist, but I'd say that's still psychosomatic.
Noises, by themselves, do not cause headaches. The headache could be caused by the clenching of the jaw in response to the noise however.
Here's a kind-of litmus test: If something makes you ill if you are asleep or in a coma (eg. you breath a toxic chemical and it burns your lungs), THEN there is a cause-effect relationship.
Otherwise, there's just a correlation, and something else is the cause.
hmmmm.... I often have those same symptoms and I don't work around transmitters.
I think it just depends on the person.
Yup. It's called psychosomatic and people will find any number or reasons to be ill due to it.
My wife use to work at an insect ID lab...she's an entomologist, and at least once a week someone
would send in a piece of fuzz or lint with a letter claiming that these bugs were making them sick.
Wether it's cell phone towers, power lines, non-existent bugs, or viruses you cant see, there are some people who are convinced the world is out to get them, and it's not their fault.
I'm also confused about where the calls were originating from....
TFA mentions mentions making VoIP calls using your mobile phone.
Were these calls originating from T-Mobile cell phones? Using local WiFi or T-Mobiles internet?
I don't understand the mechanics of what the law suit is trying to settle.
One of the points that I missed in my original post is the general trend of vendors to build this kind of proprietary crap into their systems. Not too long ago a vendor would say "here's our routing system, it'll interface with your ACD systems and the major carriers, and here's the API to program it."
That's fine if you have people who actually know how to program...most large companies did until the tech sector started to balloon in the early 90s. Then it was: what software can we buy that any idiot could program. That's what IT management wanted and that's what many companies started to provide.
Thankfully, I mostly do "real" programming, or I would quit. I just happened to be the poor guy on call this week.
I deal with a lot of different vendor products used for call routing and IVR applications. One thing that's happened over the past 10 years is the move from text scripts to proprietary GUI based programming tools. I'm talking drag-n-drop blocks that perform specific functions which "hook" together by dragging lines between them.
Generally, this is to make configuring the systems more accessible to people not properly trained (or trained at ALL) in programming. ie. They're suppose to be good for writing error-free scripts. Unfortunately, these poor tools in no way reduce the number of bugs that find their way into the system.
Additionally, they also have the following draw-backs:
* Absolutely no error handling (try, catch, etc.)
* No way to program function calls....once you choose a path, there's no going back...this results in TONS of duplicate code.
* No way to know exactly what those blocks are doing under-the-hood.
* You're limited by the functionality of the blocks provided by the vendor.
* Many difficulties with source-control systems and build-and-release procedures.
* Don't even get me started on what it's like to debug with these stupid things....
Just this morning I was paged at 5:45am because someone made a change to a script. It took me an hour to find the problem because I had to zoom in and out, trying to get a feel of the layout, looking a block properties to see what's changed, etc. It turned out the lines connecting the day-of-the-week block were set correctly: they had the Monday line connected to Sunday's code.
Talk about a fubar'd system.
They should be outlawed.
...just by visiting some websites with IE that tried to install crap to my laptop. I think I see where your problem is....The first few versions of ZoneAlarm were great, however I've had a lot of problems with
the newer versions (ver 5+), esp with memory usage and the entire network stack becoming inoperable until I rebooted.
I now rely on a nice router (DLink dgl-4300) with a proven track record for reliability, speed, etc., and has a built in firewall,
and as a last line of defense, the MS Windows firewall, which I agree is a joke, and AWFUL to configure, but has been very stable for me.
I would say HDCP is a far far bigger problem than HDMI for two reasons:
1. Most people aren't aware that it exists. This is a big problem since most computer monitors don't support it. Dell only came out with HDCP capable flat screens late 2006! Anyone buying Vista or a new computer hoping to install a HD-DVD in it will probably not be able to get it to work because....
2. It has many of the same issues mentioned above that HDMI has: hodge-podge of rules and standards that result in components not being able to negotiate with each other. The consumer is left with expensive equipment that doesn't work and the manufacturer can point fingers at each other. And if you're doing all this on a computer it's far worse: the monitor, video card, and HD-DVD ROM all have to work together perfectly. Oh and you better have the right drivers on the right OS. Yeah, good luck.
BTW, Doesn't DVI support HDCP too?
My Mom bought a 52" rear-projection TV about 3 years ago and it has a DVI connector on the back. No HDMI.
I don't own a hd-dvd/blueray player so I haven't tried pushing a HDCP enabled signal to it, but I do have a HDMI to DVI cable that's hooked up to the cable box. (That cost $22 at WalMart.)
I'm just saying that this use of H1-B visas is obviously NOT what was intended when they were created.
They were never designed to REPLACE American workers, which is what happened where I work.
They are suppose to be used to temporarily hire foreign nationalists if NO AMERICAN could be found to fill the job.
Also, I know what you mean about the eastern Europeans. I know a few people from Russia and the Baltics and they're wicked smart (they usually speak 5 languages).
...and outlaw contracting on H1B,My employer outsourced a bunch of jobs two years ago to Infosys.
Foolish me thought that the work would be done overseas.
Now there are 4 Indians sitting across from me, in the same cubes, working on the same computers, and doing the same work that the Americans were doing before.
Anyone who says H1-Bs aren't being abused to replace domestic labor with cheap import labor has their head up their ass.
The Alaskan pipeline will be a piece of cake compared to running a railroad all the way to the west coast. The terrain the pipeline runs on is in the middle of the state and is fairly flat and easy to navigate. The terrain out west is insane... basically it's a bog with huge inland bodies of water to navigate around.
Oh, and did you know there's no railroad that connects Alaska with Canada/US???
Getting a train to the west coast much less UNDER AN OCEAN would take 50 years easy.