It takes a whole lotta wireless bandwidth to transmit HD - so don't stand between the receiver/transmitter and the TV, or you'll get a RFI/WiFi "suntan"...
Competence is a non-partisan issue, so stop trying to force the "fair and balanced" point of view that everything wrong in government began the moment Obama took the oath of office.
After all, it was Bush who ignored the
Osama Bin Laden poised to strike in US memo from the CIA a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Talk about unqualified...
Lies. The analog portion of the phone system is only in the last mile. The backend of the phone system has been digital for a very long time, and it is ALREADY common to see IP-based backhaul with QOS.
Exactly. The electromechanical switching systems went out in the 80s, but the digital switched network has been isolated, for good reason.
from Wikipedia:
It is becoming increasingly common for telecommunications providers to use VoIP telephony over dedicated and public IP networks to connect switching stations and to interconnect with other telephony network providers.
and...
With the current separation of the Internet and the public switched telephone network, a certain amount of redundancy is provided. An Internet outage does not necessarily mean that a voice communication outage will occur simultaneously, allowing individuals to call for emergency services and many businesses to continue to operate normally.
In situations where telephone services become completely reliant on the Internet infrastructure, a single-point failure can isolate communities from all communication, including Enhanced 911 and equivalent services in other locales.
But if you want to parody/criticize, you need to know what battles to fight.
This editorial by Josh Melman makes some very interesting points about effectively wielding political power:
These groups have been - and continue to be - ineffective because, unlike those who favour the filter, they don't understand what it takes to achieve political change.
and
...introducing the internet filter would have almost no electoral consequences for the Government, save the possibility of losing inner-city Sydney and Melbourne seats to the Greens.
But not introducing the filter would upset one of the best organised and most influential political groups in the country.
Liberal MP Alex Hawke, a campaigner for Christian values who opposes the filter, believes the legislation is the result of a backroom deal between Senator Conroy and the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).
The ACL is a seriously hefty lobby group, and the Government owes it favours. According to its website, the ACL counts among its victories "[turning] the tide on issues such as euthanasia" and "[alerting] parliamentarians on industry plans to introduce R-rated hand held computer games".
The ACL has also "positively influenced the debate on homosexual adoption in the ACT and Tasmania" and lobbied local councils on issues such as "the placement of brothels [and] offensive advertising".
Within Parliament, the ACL tells us there are "large numbers of Christian politicians at all levels of Government who value your prayers and support".
You could count on one hand the number of politicians whose knowledge of technology extends further than using a BlackBerry to Tweet during Question Time.
As a result, it is not enough to demonstrate that a large number of people, even the majority of people, think the filter is a bad idea. Defeating the filter means convincing Labor that it will have electoral consequences worse than pissing off the Christian lobby.
Filter opponents appear to believe Twitter, online petitions, protests and letter-writing campaigns will be enough.
However, 10,000 people blacking out their avatars, retweeting blog posts and furiously agreeing with each other on Twitter merely adds to the cacophony of the echo chamber; it has no effect in the real world.
The closed circle of the Australian Twitterati and their friends in the technology and political media might well believe everyone is against the internet filter since everyone they know is talking about it.
But in the mainstream media, the filter was a lower-order news item on the day it was announced and has since almost disappeared.
It all sounds very familiar... I suggest that if you don't understand this or feel it is unfair, go read The Power Broker by Robert Caro...
I second this motion. I saw it at the movies and it was an absolute scream. Great soundtrack, great character actors (James Karen, Clu Gulager, Don Calfa) hilarious dialogue ("Send... more... paramedics.", "It hurts... to be dead."), perfect ending. Reagan was president and we were sure he was going to start WWIII...
Porn movies in your face! Free music peer to peer, Download without the fear! And don't forget the kiddie pix, Craigslist and turning tricks! McDonalds is your kind of place...
I guess they didn't know that Parallels Desktop V4 was superseded; after all, they are only the tech media...
PS - I've used Parallels since V3 and I like it a lot...
some of my fellow employees were forced to use VMWare by the IT guys (they are the art department - on Macs) and it makes their systems go nuts - SPOD, crashing, S L O W performance, hard to modify, does not play well with the rest of the system...
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It takes a whole lotta wireless bandwidth to transmit HD - so don't stand between the receiver/transmitter and the TV, or you'll get a RFI/WiFi "suntan"...
sniffing and spoofing MAC addresses is even easier than cracking WEP
it's going to be called an iPad - I'll wager a Mac Pro tower that iPad will be at least one of the names... there's at least two devices.
comments about never using the typeface Papyrus - which, indeed, is a hideous font... and used in the banner of the webpage of TFA...
....in my flying car?
trojans, keyloggers and DNS cache poisoning included, no extra charge! now you'll really feel like you're running windows!
just wait until she becomes the next Governator
the second is inkjet cartridges that show "empty" when they are still full, and cannot be reloaded...
maybe their copyright expired?
You mean, they are fools to rely on the security infrastructure that the Bush Administration set up over seven years? Or do you mean, there's no director at TSA because Republicans in Congress have been blocking nomination confirmation hearings?
Competence is a non-partisan issue, so stop trying to force the "fair and balanced" point of view that everything wrong in government began the moment Obama took the oath of office.
After all, it was Bush who ignored the Osama Bin Laden poised to strike in US memo from the CIA a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Talk about unqualified...
Exactly. The electromechanical switching systems went out in the 80s, but the digital switched network has been isolated, for good reason.
from Wikipedia:
and...
Yeah, copper wire really sucks...
. . . about government employees: "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us..."
In this case, the government pretends to protect us, and, uh... Hmmm... oh, we pretend to believe it?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5159636661461723061
busted viewing porn AVIs again?
This editorial by Josh Melman makes some very interesting points about effectively wielding political power:
and
It all sounds very familiar... I suggest that if you don't understand this or feel it is unfair, go read The Power Broker by Robert Caro...
I hope you used a headshot to keep Granddad from becoming a zombie like the rest of 'em...
I second this motion. I saw it at the movies and it was an absolute scream. Great soundtrack, great character actors (James Karen, Clu Gulager, Don Calfa) hilarious dialogue ("Send... more... paramedics.", "It hurts... to be dead."), perfect ending. Reagan was president and we were sure he was going to start WWIII...
Porn movies in your face!
Free music peer to peer,
Download without the fear!
And don't forget the kiddie pix,
Craigslist and turning tricks!
McDonalds is your kind of place...
(apologies to Ray Kroc)
never mind... sorry!
I guess they didn't know that Parallels Desktop V4 was superseded; after all, they are only the tech media...
PS - I've used Parallels since V3 and I like it a lot...
some of my fellow employees were forced to use VMWare by the IT guys (they are the art department - on Macs) and it makes their systems go nuts - SPOD, crashing, S L O W performance, hard to modify, does not play well with the rest of the system...
best . . . post . . . ever!
broken in half, wielded as a razor sharp weapon?
that will only work as long as the HAL 9000 doesn't get pissed off and unplug everyone...
just don't watch. it's all crap anyway. the only programs my wife and I watch are mad men and big bang theory via p2p. once in a while, daily show.
life's too short to remain glued to the tube...
and terms and conditions too...