I heard they tested the thing till they were blue in the f... uh screen. Seriously The grab for spectrum right now is obscene the way the FCC sells it (since when do they "own" it? I thought they were commisioned to police the airwaves not auction them), and the way the various companies are attempting to grab it via their lobbys and "influence".
I would rather have a honest government (they stay bought), instead of waffle depending on the bribe of today's higest bidder and next week a better bribe makes them lean the other way.... Imagine if government ran the roads the way they run the spectrum....
waaaaay back in the day..... I used to work part time for the IT department of a major city. Our archival systems consisted of: Weekly the mainframe backup tapes were rotated on set schedule and one set was taken offsite for safety.. That set I know of becuase... I would load the 30 or so 9 track 1600 BPI tapes (yeah that long ago) up in my Volkswagen Squareback (yeah that long ago) and drive them to a warehouse district near the tracks where in the back of a empty warehouse was a steel vault they were kept in. Encryption? You gotta be kiddin! security? I was the hippie who worked the night shift and NO ONE knew me, yet I walked in and walked out with the records on millions of people...weekly... for years...
Reminds me though of "objective" and "subjective". Clear meanings right? Well read any piece of 18th century English Lit; there the meanings are exactly oposite of their current value. As a language, English is stable the way Windows is stable...
Recently I was attempting to recover some files. old files. These were Word (4.0?) documents off a System 6 HFS formatted SCSI 90mb Bernoulli. It seems this backup disk from WAAAY back in the day was infected with a virus named nVIR -anyone remember that? To get the files I Had the disk plugged into a G3 upgraded Clone box (Supermac) running OS X 10.2 then networked to my G5 on 10.4 I just copied the whole 90mb to a folder and started to tinker. I got the files I needed but then started looking at some other stuff out of nostalgia and..THAT was when nVir reared its...now comically harmless head. You see, this thing expected to be on a Mac, a System 6 Mac, on a HFS partition. Opening it in HFS+ in OS X its fangs were totally pulled.
Every time I see graffiti and then later see a security camera, I consider the lowly spray paint can and how it just may have a noble place in our culture after all..
just before the election for the Roads Commision in counties in Texas is the ONLY time the rural gravel roads get graded. Election for sheriff? the jails fill full of bums and hookers, it is nothign new. The only difference here is scale; Federal politicos can grade entire areas of the spectrum...
I can just see the headlines after the Animal Liberation Front does a midnight raid on their facility knocking cages about and generally creating mayhem: "Terrorist make Obscene Clone Fall!"
Privacy? how about wasted money and empire building?
Cameras in the Madrid Subway...I am sure it protected someone....cameras in the Tokyo subway.. (1995 Sarin attack) I am sure it protected someone....cameras in...oh for peat sake! Cameras do SQUAT for security! They capture pictures after the fact for analysis on CNN (between aspirin commercials) and in the mean time create a fiefdom for a bureaucrat to ask for more funding, hire more people, write reports, create missions statements hey and even look for "Synergy" They also give camera operators the chance to look down gal's shirts and in their windows while they undress. Your tax money at..........work?
It has been a pet gripe of mine: why do developers insist that data entry can be performed with a mouse? Programming, writing the great novel etc. that is what folks think of with this but..BUT! What of the lowly clerk? This poor soul data enters all day...They must key enter the vouchers the salesman brings in, the payment coupons, the thousand and one non-OCR compliant bits of data that need be digitized.. Ever watched a clerk do their job? - type type type in a field, click to the next field (because some wit forgot to make the fields tab-able), type type type, click, type, click, etc.. right hand is on the keyboard, then the mouse, then the keyboard then the mouse.... The action of reach and click reduces the clerk's effectiveness at their job by a goodly percentage. "elephant: Mouse designed by committee and built to government specifications" -seems to apply in this case too.
It seems to me...you can't feed the world and the gas tank on the same hectare of crops. Its either feed the starving in (fill in where they are starving this cycle) or fill it and no don't check the tires. As to bio-diesel.....has anyone ever tried to start a engine when the gas tank is filled with congealed pig fat on a brisk winter morning in Alaska?
I totally agree with you there. btw Joe was at the time 84 iirc. he was a WWII vet. and I do consider it "on topic" becasue his paperwork included the CMH, but as it was not the proper form, the fellow administering the paperwork was not allowing such an obvious threat to life and limb as Joe aboard.
It always brings to mind the tale of Joe Foss. Joe was once prevented from boarding a plane because he had an unacceptabe metal object in his personal possesion. The security guard, with limited command of english explained to this winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor why that very piece of metal was a security threat in today's world. As Joe had almost laid down his life to preserve such "freedoms" he was a good citizen, and missed his flight... Freedom. it was a nice thing once. now, its a pencil push away....
one thing that is I am sure of some interest to women with an abundance in the area of mamary glands is; the lack of gravity means a lack of sag. I AM being scientific!
What I really want to know is why, up till 20 or so years back were there not these auctions? I mean, who died and made the radio spectrum a commodity the FCC owns and can auction off? I do recal them regulating the spectrum back when, I do not recall them selling it...
I cannot recall the exact quote but knowing this crowd, I am sure it is but a post away: Robert Hienlien once said something like: "When a government gets to the point where it requires identity papers, it is time to move off planet" Similar to the old Daniel Boone line: "when you can hear the sound of your neighbor's axe, it is time to move to the next valley"
Linclon...hummm wasn't he an obscure railroad lawyer who's main claim to fame was the part he played in the eventual death of a famous actor of that time?
In the beginning the continium was void and...without, and darkness was upon the face of the singularity. Then Blind Chance said: "Let there be Quanta!" And the morning and the evening of the first fempto-second.
My source: Comp.risks news group posted May 3 name deleted:
Error in climate data recording software From the latest Nature: 447, p 7140
In 2006, data from the array led a team of scientists to the surprising conclusion that the world's oceans had cooled during 2003 exceptionally warm years in terms of global surface temperature. The team published its findings in Geophysical Research Letters1. Such apparent cooling was seized on by people keen to highlight the uncertainties in forecasts of global warming2.
That cooling has now been shown to be an artefact. In some of the buoys -- they are manufactured in separate batches -- a software glitch caused the temperature and salinity data to be associated with the wrong depths. When the problem data are excluded from the analysis, the cooling trend drops below the level of statistical significance.
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I heard they tested the thing till they were blue in the f... uh screen.
Seriously
The grab for spectrum right now is obscene the way the FCC sells it (since when do they "own" it? I thought they were commisioned to police the airwaves not auction them),
and the way the various companies are attempting to grab it via their lobbys and "influence".
I would rather have a honest government (they stay bought), instead of waffle depending on the bribe of today's higest bidder and next week a better bribe makes them lean the other way....
Imagine if government ran the roads the way they run the spectrum....
Obviously they could not tell their Caldera from a hole in the ground....
waaaaay back in the day..... I used to work part time for the IT department of a major city. Our archival systems consisted of: Weekly the mainframe backup tapes were rotated on set schedule and one set was taken offsite for safety.. That set I know of becuase... I would load the 30 or so 9 track 1600 BPI tapes (yeah that long ago) up in my Volkswagen Squareback (yeah that long ago) and drive them to a warehouse district near the tracks where in the back of a empty warehouse was a steel vault they were kept in. Encryption? You gotta be kiddin! security? I was the hippie who worked the night shift and NO ONE knew me, yet I walked in and walked out with the records on millions of people...weekly... for years...
Reminds me though of "objective" and "subjective". Clear meanings right? Well read any piece of 18th century English Lit; there the meanings are exactly oposite of their current value. As a language, English is stable the way Windows is stable...
Recently I was attempting to recover some files. old files. These were Word (4.0?) documents off a System 6 HFS formatted SCSI 90mb Bernoulli. It seems this backup disk from WAAAY back in the day was infected with a virus named nVIR -anyone remember that? To get the files I Had the disk plugged into a G3 upgraded Clone box (Supermac) running OS X 10.2 then networked to my G5 on 10.4 I just copied the whole 90mb to a folder and started to tinker. I got the files I needed but then started looking at some other stuff out of nostalgia and ..THAT was when nVir reared its...now comically harmless head. You see, this thing expected to be on a Mac, a System 6 Mac, on a HFS partition. Opening it in HFS+ in OS X its fangs were totally pulled.
Every time I see graffiti and then later see a security camera, I consider the lowly spray paint can and how it just may have a noble place in our culture after all..
just before the election for the Roads Commision in counties in Texas is the ONLY time the rural gravel roads get graded. Election for sheriff? the jails fill full of bums and hookers, it is nothign new. The only difference here is scale; Federal politicos can grade entire areas of the spectrum...
I can just see the headlines after the Animal Liberation Front does a midnight raid on their facility knocking cages about and generally creating mayhem:
"Terrorist make Obscene Clone Fall!"
Privacy? how about wasted money and empire building?
Cameras in the Madrid Subway...I am sure it protected someone....cameras in the Tokyo subway.. (1995 Sarin attack) I am sure it protected someone....cameras in...oh for peat sake! Cameras do SQUAT for security! They capture pictures after the fact for analysis on CNN (between aspirin commercials) and in the mean time create a fiefdom for a bureaucrat to ask for more funding, hire more people, write reports, create missions statements hey and even look for "Synergy" They also give camera operators the chance to look down gal's shirts and in their windows while they undress. Your tax money at..........work?
It has been a pet gripe of mine: why do developers insist that data entry can be performed with a mouse? Programming, writing the great novel etc. that is what folks think of with this but..BUT! What of the lowly clerk? This poor soul data enters all day...They must key enter the vouchers the salesman brings in, the payment coupons, the thousand and one non-OCR compliant bits of data that need be digitized.. Ever watched a clerk do their job? - type type type in a field, click to the next field (because some wit forgot to make the fields tab-able), type type type, click, type, click, etc.. right hand is on the keyboard, then the mouse, then the keyboard then the mouse.... The action of reach and click reduces the clerk's effectiveness at their job by a goodly percentage. "elephant: Mouse designed by committee and built to government specifications" -seems to apply in this case too.
It seems to me...you can't feed the world and the gas tank on the same hectare of crops. Its either feed the starving in (fill in where they are starving this cycle) or fill it and no don't check the tires.
As to bio-diesel.....has anyone ever tried to start a engine when the gas tank is filled with congealed pig fat on a brisk winter morning in Alaska?
I totally agree with you there. btw Joe was at the time 84 iirc. he was a WWII vet. and I do consider it "on topic" becasue his paperwork included the CMH, but as it was not the proper form, the fellow administering the paperwork was not allowing such an obvious threat to life and limb as Joe aboard.
ALL RIGHT I KNOW I'M IN THERE! If I don't come out with my hands up, I'm Coming in to Get Me!!!
It always brings to mind the tale of Joe Foss. Joe was once prevented from boarding a plane because he had an unacceptabe metal object in his personal possesion.
The security guard, with limited command of english explained to this winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor why that very piece of metal was a security threat in today's world. As Joe had almost laid down his life to preserve such "freedoms" he was a good citizen, and missed his flight... Freedom. it was a nice thing once. now, its a pencil push away....
the Canadian show Food Jammers had a segment recently on this; some guy in I think Toronto doing this...
one thing that is I am sure of some interest to women with an abundance in the area of mamary glands is; the lack of gravity means a lack of sag. I AM being scientific!
they should have asked drummers; they have been passing sound through "dem bones" for generations...
What I really want to know is why, up till 20 or so years back were there not these auctions? I mean, who died and made the radio spectrum a commodity the FCC owns and can auction off? I do recal them regulating the spectrum back when, I do not recall them selling it...
Never trust a phone plan you can't pick up
I cannot recall the exact quote but knowing this crowd, I am sure it is but a post away: Robert Hienlien once said something like: "When a government gets to the point where it requires identity papers, it is time to move off planet"
Similar to the old Daniel Boone line: "when you can hear the sound of your neighbor's axe, it is time to move to the next valley"
In Soviet Russia the porn shows YOU!
or to get the grant...
you forgot the third kind: the one's who go against department politics and end up ASKING for spare change...
Linclon...hummm wasn't he an obscure railroad lawyer who's main claim to fame was the part he played in the eventual death of a famous actor of that time?
In the beginning the continium was void and...without, and darkness was upon the face of the singularity. Then Blind Chance said: "Let there be Quanta!" And the morning and the evening of the first fempto-second.
My source: Comp.risks news group posted May 3 name deleted:
Error in climate data recording software
From the latest Nature: 447, p 7140
In 2006, data from the array led a team of scientists to the surprising
conclusion that the world's oceans had cooled during 2003 exceptionally warm
years in terms of global surface temperature. The team published its
findings in Geophysical Research Letters1. Such apparent cooling was seized
on by people keen to highlight the uncertainties in forecasts of global
warming2.
That cooling has now been shown to be an artefact. In some of the buoys --
they are manufactured in separate batches -- a software glitch caused the
temperature and salinity data to be associated with the wrong depths. When
the problem data are excluded from the analysis, the cooling trend drops
below the level of statistical significance.
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Can we all say "OOPSIE"?