* Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera? * Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off.
right. and these devices were just fine for decades... the suddenly they became dangerous. i don't buy it.
No, they did not. But devices have evolved. Instead of relying on the flight attendant to identify every possible device which may contain a transmitter or rely on you knowing which transmitters are harmless (which the airliners themselves do not know) there is a blanket ban. Anything else would never work today.
* Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket.
that's a better point. although she was sitting by the window. and even if that is the real reason, it should be _explained_. i think the attitude contributes a lot to make all the measures seem incredibly silly (not that most of them aren't;) )
And sadly, very few passangers are able to understand these explanations.
Heck, I'm not so sure every flight attendant do. That's why they have rigorous procedures and are not to deviate.
Of course things could be explained, but also you should accept the fact that the procedures are made up of diverse experiences the industry has made of decades.
This is in contrast to the the security measures put in place by the TSA, which are irrational actions based on irrational happenings. The industry measures are a result of actual research caused by actual problems.
You have a few limited points. * Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera? * Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off. * Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket. Same goes for any larger item of clothing and shoes. Shoes are to be on during takeoff/landing for the same reason. These things have nothing to do with terrorist paranoia. You could argue how much a digicam or MP3 player interfere with the instruments, but instead of relying on you or the flights attendants to recognize what is dangerous and what is not, it is way safer to keep it all turned off.
I've worked with a wide range of airports and knows some of this from the inside. I also know enough to be confident that the security measures in place after 9/11 are not that hard to defeat. I have also declined visiting the US because of the hostility you are faced with even when coming from an allied country, but that is unrelated to airport security.
Also, I did WLAN installations at a range of airports as a hired consultant. They only checked my police record before issuing me with an access to *all* areas on *every* airport in the country. Not even security officers matched my clearance.
To make it even 'worse': I had clearance to bring any item or equipment past the security checkpoint, except explosives. I had knives and all sorts of sharp/blunt objects.
On one occasion I also brought my car and got clearance to bring it on the same side as the airplanes. The security officer who was to inspect my car rolled his eyes to see it filled with ~60 boxes (containing WLAN AP) and decided it was too much of an effort to check the vehicle so I could just pass.
No interview, deep background checks, nothing before I got clearance. I suspect the cleaning staff have similar clearance (except their equipment might already be inside).
I guess I was just one of many... It then bothers me endlessly to be stripped of my toothpaste when flying civil (my clearance ended this summer, a ear after I switched jobs...).
Yes, agreed! If they confiscate my toothpaste because they suspect it contains explosives, why the hell am I allowed on the plane at all? I most certainly would not feel more secure if the 9/11-terrorists were on my plane knowing that even though their guns were confiscated they still have the intent of bringing my fligh down.
When they take away my toothpaste I would expect a full SWAT-team to appear and beat me to a pulp before taking me away and possibly sending me to Guantanamo.
Make up your mind, am I a terrorist suspect or not?
If you were living in Norway the law mandates a minimum 1/5th payment per hour you are on call, and overtime once you are called out. The minimum overtime compensation required by law i 40%, and the minimum amount of time is 2 hours. That is the bare minimum guaranteed by law in order for your employer to demand anything at all from you. And even then you cannot be oncall 24/7.
Some are on call without any basic compensation, but without obligations. And some, like me, have way better benefits than this.
I too agree that this is pointless for the end user in Linux, at least when it comes to free software. Only closed binary blobs will benefit, which IMHO is not something worth putting effort towards helping. They did their design choices and accepted the reality in doing so.
As for the end user, she should just use the package manager of her distro and find whatever she needs. Not worrying about neither compiling nor platforms. For example, in Debian/Ubuntu you could more easilly package your installer to simply drop a file in/etc/apt/sources.d. Not only will the user be able to use the package manager to install your app like any other, she will also get security updates you publish.
Let the package system handle these things, they do it well and does not bloat your boat.
Sounds familiar. The cleaning crew of a supplier specielizing in cooling systems also did this. Loggin in to MSN and the like. The only problem was that the computer they used once had an open remote desktop session to a computer controlling the cooling in a large storage hall for fish. It was supposed to be 'secure'. As the conversations on MSN was in Bulgarian and the companies invovled were Norwegian, it didn't take too much effort in locating the source (I just called everyone with access to the said computer and asked them to name all Bulgarian employees, and only one name came up...).
Here in Norway there is a similar service. The best part? It is actualy run by a government agency to aid consumers in the jungle of cellphone and broadband plans. (http://www.telepriser.no/ , in Norwegian only)
A device like this with Maemo has a shell, an ssh client and even an ssh server if you want. It does whatever you want it to granted is has the horsepower to do it.
You haven't missed out on much. I did try to go the N-route, until I discovered that different devices operate on differetn frequencies. Buying teo draft-N certified products I thought I had a good chance of them working together. Turns out one was for 2.4GHz band and the other for the 5GHz band.
Both were certified and one of them metioned nothing of frequencies outside the box.
If the standard actually allows this, I don't know. Beware...
Actually, most launches happen outside NASA these days. NASA is often involed, providing instruments or cooperating with other agencies, but that goes both ways.
Close, but no cigar. As Terra is using a polar orbit it travels the equtor almost 30 times per day. But yes, most of the gaps are most likely over equator, as it a lot of it is just oceans and requires more manouvres by the S/C to cover out of nominal orbit.
I guess you can use halogen if you want to heat your house with light bulbs.
By replacing the conventional bulbs with CFL's most people will in fact need to turn up the heat to compensate for lost heating. At least in colder areas like Norway.
You could debate which heat source is most efficient; bulbs, ovens or fireplaces?
Can't give you any figures, but one second off would mean a lot of lost cash for us here at WeTalkToSatellites. Not enough to put us out of business, but enough to cause the execs to come screaming with tears.
Things can get complicated. I know nothing of how it works in the US, but in Norway it all depends on the contract.
If your job descrition includes programming and development, employer has every right to the IP.
On the other hand, if your job description does not involve programming or development you most likey have the IP rights on your side.
Same goes for researchers. If a researcher discovers something it is IP of the employer, because that's what you are hired to do. Should the cleaning personell happen to develop a clever way to clean the floors the employer does not automagically retain IP rights.
250 employees on 200 computers. 500 students on 100 computers. 8 locations. 10 servers. Ancient infrastructure (NT4 and NetWare) desperately needing an upgrade. IT staff: just me.
This was for a Norwegian muncipality a few years ago. It was fun since I could control every aspect of things, and develop most things from scratch. NT4 got replaced by a mix of Linux and Windows 2003 and hardware inrastructure renewed.
The downside was work 24/7 and no real vacation. I lasted two years before I ran away.
Now, as for ratio i don't think it is symmetrical. Having your IT staff go from 1 to 2 will give you very little extra beyond sanity. It would not mean double capacity. However, going from 19 to 20 IT staff that last person would add heaps of more capacity.
The fact that you have never had an accident doesn't mean you are not a traffic hazard.
It could be that other drivers are more alert and managing to avert the potencial accidents.
I have made a virtual appliance I deploy to my customers, mainly in the 10-100 employee range. It has Ubuntu server LTS-release, postfix, amavisd-new, postfix-policy-dæmon, clamav and spamassassin. It works really great, and I have have Postfix insert Exchange-compatible headers so that the users can use the features included in Outlook/Exchange.
Fully integrated, no quarantine management (other than the 'junk'-folder) and from what I can tell: no false positives and extremely low rate for false negatives (my guesstimate is less than 0,5%).
And all I need is a server present with some free RAM!
Automatic updates of all the components and automatic bayes learning means the system is self-supporting aswell.
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* Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera?
* Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off.
right. and these devices were just fine for decades... the suddenly they became dangerous. i don't buy it.
No, they did not. But devices have evolved. Instead of relying on the flight attendant to identify every possible device which may contain a transmitter or rely on you knowing which transmitters are harmless (which the airliners themselves do not know) there is a blanket ban.
Anything else would never work today.
* Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket.
that's a better point. although she was sitting by the window. and even if that is the real reason, it should be _explained_. i think the attitude contributes a lot to make all the measures seem incredibly silly (not that most of them aren't ;) )
And sadly, very few passangers are able to understand these explanations.
Heck, I'm not so sure every flight attendant do. That's why they have rigorous procedures and are not to deviate.
Of course things could be explained, but also you should accept the fact that the procedures are made up of diverse experiences the industry has made of decades.
This is in contrast to the the security measures put in place by the TSA, which are irrational actions based on irrational happenings. The industry measures are a result of actual research caused by actual problems.
You have a few limited points.
* Photos: All electronic equipment must be switched off. I bet it's a digital camera?
* Music: Same goes. If you have the plugs in your ear you are most likely listening and you were not able to hear the attendants telling you ti switch it off.
* Blanket: If there is an emergency that blanket will cost lives. Try exiting a seat row in a hurry when the person next to the isle has a blanket. Same goes for any larger item of clothing and shoes. Shoes are to be on during takeoff/landing for the same reason.
These things have nothing to do with terrorist paranoia. You could argue how much a digicam or MP3 player interfere with the instruments, but instead of relying on you or the flights attendants to recognize what is dangerous and what is not, it is way safer to keep it all turned off.
I've worked with a wide range of airports and knows some of this from the inside. I also know enough to be confident that the security measures in place after 9/11 are not that hard to defeat.
I have also declined visiting the US because of the hostility you are faced with even when coming from an allied country, but that is unrelated to airport security.
Also, I did WLAN installations at a range of airports as a hired consultant.
They only checked my police record before issuing me with an access to *all* areas on *every* airport in the country. Not even security officers matched my clearance.
To make it even 'worse': I had clearance to bring any item or equipment past the security checkpoint, except explosives. I had knives and all sorts of sharp/blunt objects.
On one occasion I also brought my car and got clearance to bring it on the same side as the airplanes. The security officer who was to inspect my car rolled his eyes to see it filled with ~60 boxes (containing WLAN AP) and decided it was too much of an effort to check the vehicle so I could just pass.
No interview, deep background checks, nothing before I got clearance. I suspect the cleaning staff have similar clearance (except their equipment might already be inside).
I guess I was just one of many... It then bothers me endlessly to be stripped of my toothpaste when flying civil (my clearance ended this summer, a ear after I switched jobs...).
Yes, agreed!
If they confiscate my toothpaste because they suspect it contains explosives, why the hell am I allowed on the plane at all?
I most certainly would not feel more secure if the 9/11-terrorists were on my plane knowing that even though their guns were confiscated they still have the intent of bringing my fligh down.
When they take away my toothpaste I would expect a full SWAT-team to appear and beat me to a pulp before taking me away and possibly sending me to Guantanamo.
Make up your mind, am I a terrorist suspect or not?
If you were living in Norway the law mandates a minimum 1/5th payment per hour you are on call, and overtime once you are called out. The minimum overtime compensation required by law i 40%, and the minimum amount of time is 2 hours.
That is the bare minimum guaranteed by law in order for your employer to demand anything at all from you. And even then you cannot be oncall 24/7.
Some are on call without any basic compensation, but without obligations. And some, like me, have way better benefits than this.
Please elaborate.
I too agree that this is pointless for the end user in Linux, at least when it comes to free software. Only closed binary blobs will benefit, which IMHO is not something worth putting effort towards helping. They did their design choices and accepted the reality in doing so.
As for the end user, she should just use the package manager of her distro and find whatever she needs. Not worrying about neither compiling nor platforms. /etc/apt/sources.d. Not only will the user be able to use the package manager to install your app like any other, she will also get security updates you publish.
For example, in Debian/Ubuntu you could more easilly package your installer to simply drop a file in
Let the package system handle these things, they do it well and does not bloat your boat.
Kudos. /. shouls always use UTC. Always.
Sounds familiar. The cleaning crew of a supplier specielizing in cooling systems also did this. Loggin in to MSN and the like. The only problem was that the computer they used once had an open remote desktop session to a computer controlling the cooling in a large storage hall for fish. It was supposed to be 'secure'.
As the conversations on MSN was in Bulgarian and the companies invovled were Norwegian, it didn't take too much effort in locating the source (I just called everyone with access to the said computer and asked them to name all Bulgarian employees, and only one name came up...).
Here in Norway there is a similar service. The best part? It is actualy run by a government agency to aid consumers in the jungle of cellphone and broadband plans. (http://www.telepriser.no/ , in Norwegian only)
A device like this with Maemo has a shell, an ssh client and even an ssh server if you want. It does whatever you want it to granted is has the horsepower to do it.
Or what about encrypting the damn data and be done with it?
You haven't missed out on much.
I did try to go the N-route, until I discovered that different devices operate on differetn frequencies. Buying teo draft-N certified products I thought I had a good chance of them working together.
Turns out one was for 2.4GHz band and the other for the 5GHz band.
Both were certified and one of them metioned nothing of frequencies outside the box.
If the standard actually allows this, I don't know. Beware...
Actually, most launches happen outside NASA these days.
NASA is often involed, providing instruments or cooperating with other agencies, but that goes both ways.
Close, but no cigar.
As Terra is using a polar orbit it travels the equtor almost 30 times per day. But yes, most of the gaps are most likely over equator, as it a lot of it is just oceans and requires more manouvres by the S/C to cover out of nominal orbit.
Mine was utter crap. Not very precise, intermittent dropouts, need to re-pair often... That was almost 2 years ago, it might work better now.
But they can afford to pay my employer a few dollars to get their own picture of the site.
We aqcuire and sell satellite imagery of the location of your choice. If the weather is nice enough you can expect an image within hours of ordering.
We are also downlinking most of the imagery used by Google...
These things are availible commercially for anyone and for any purpose.
Each his own.
This is the reason I do not use it or support it. I want a pure DNS service not a tampered one.
I guess you can use halogen if you want to heat your house with light bulbs.
By replacing the conventional bulbs with CFL's most people will in fact need to turn up the heat to compensate for lost heating.
At least in colder areas like Norway.
You could debate which heat source is most efficient; bulbs, ovens or fireplaces?
Can't give you any figures, but one second off would mean a lot of lost cash for us here at WeTalkToSatellites.
Not enough to put us out of business, but enough to cause the execs to come screaming with tears.
The summary gives the impression that they figured this out today. The announcement is just a reminder and a PR magnet.
This has been known for quite some time and is significant for some industries (like my field of work; satellite telemetry).
Things can get complicated.
I know nothing of how it works in the US, but in Norway it all depends on the contract.
If your job descrition includes programming and development, employer has every right to the IP.
On the other hand, if your job description does not involve programming or development you most likey have the IP rights on your side.
Same goes for researchers. If a researcher discovers something it is IP of the employer, because that's what you are hired to do. Should the cleaning personell happen to develop a clever way to clean the floors the employer does not automagically retain IP rights.
250 employees on 200 computers.
500 students on 100 computers.
8 locations.
10 servers.
Ancient infrastructure (NT4 and NetWare) desperately needing an upgrade.
IT staff: just me.
This was for a Norwegian muncipality a few years ago. It was fun since I could control every aspect of things, and develop most things from scratch.
NT4 got replaced by a mix of Linux and Windows 2003 and hardware inrastructure renewed.
The downside was work 24/7 and no real vacation. I lasted two years before I ran away.
Now, as for ratio i don't think it is symmetrical. Having your IT staff go from 1 to 2 will give you very little extra beyond sanity. It would not mean double capacity. However, going from 19 to 20 IT staff that last person would add heaps of more capacity.
The fact that you have never had an accident doesn't mean you are not a traffic hazard. It could be that other drivers are more alert and managing to avert the potencial accidents.
I have made a virtual appliance I deploy to my customers, mainly in the 10-100 employee range.
It has Ubuntu server LTS-release, postfix, amavisd-new, postfix-policy-dæmon, clamav and spamassassin. It works really great, and I have have Postfix insert Exchange-compatible headers so that the users can use the features included in Outlook/Exchange.
Fully integrated, no quarantine management (other than the 'junk'-folder) and from what I can tell: no false positives and extremely low rate for false negatives (my guesstimate is less than 0,5%).
And all I need is a server present with some free RAM!
Automatic updates of all the components and automatic bayes learning means the system is self-supporting aswell.
I believe you are correct. One of the early cracks for WGA was to create a few files and make them read only...