Don't know about Apple, but the Microsoft store scans the IMEI at purchase as part of the transaction. They could tell police in five minutes which ones were not in the store and hadn't been sold.
Which should indicate what kind of Genius staffs the store. Or do they have such high turnover that people don't recognize who is a co-worker and who isn't?
That's a point generally forgotten when setting up backup systems; do test restores frequently to verify that they work and that you're still backing up the data you need. Nothing like having supposedly successful error-free backups for months, then when you need to restore something finding that all the tapes are blank (thanks Backup Exec!)
Waste? You haven't begun to see waste and inefficiency until you've seen the inside workings of an insurance company. By all the gods above and below, one of our customers actually had a position called "Software Archivist" who made us: 1) burn to CD a 60 mb program that was only available for download, 2) forge an official-looking label with the manufacturer's logo on it for the CD and jewel case, 3) rip another program that came on DVD onto 18 CDs since that was his only official archival medium, 4) forge labels for those, 5) print out almost 4,000 pages of manuals, in triplicate, that normally were accessed as PDFs, 6) forge binder covers for all of those. Amusingly enough, that was the insurer our company used for all the employee benefits.
The smoking areas at the college near my house have butt cans, two or three of them per shelter. There are always more butts on the ground next to the ash cans than there are in them. I've never understood the reasoning.
When I used to ride my bike I would get irritated seeing drivers throwing their butts out the car window. A couple of times at stoplights I picked it back up and pitched it back through the window. Then I got chased and almost run down, so stopped that foolishness.
An option on a lot of these wearable cameras is a bulk erase, dumping all recordings. I'd be surprised if a lot of departments weren't insisting on having that feature enabled by default.
Keep in mind that Obama is the product of the Chicago Political Machine, where you don't succeed until you 1) prove you're dirty enough to buy into the club, 2) prove you're immoral enough to truly belong to the club. I never thought he'd be the second coming of FDR, but I never imagined he'd be Bush-lite.
That's what they teach in Cisco school, that you should be able to manage your entire enterprise from your desk. An instructor told us that you should use the same logon credentials throughout your enterprise because maintaining a full list was "impossible". Even on Cisco's enterprise management software there was no provision for expiring or rotating admin credentials, and the CCNIdiots gave me a puzzled look when I asked about it because they "couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to do that."
I was living, well, surviving, in St. Pete when the Dali museum opened. My roommate and I took one of rare days off to make 'greenies', and go to the museum. Neither of us had ever backed with pot before, and were really disappointed half an hour later when we felt almost nothing. We left for the museum anyway, and as we were walking into the building I stopped and said to Dan, "Holy crap, I just realized how fucked up I am!" He agreed that he was every bit as toasted. It was a very interesting four hours at the museum.
Clarification requested: Would talkie movies eventually go into public domain, or because they have sound recordings in them will we only get silent movies?
None of that has anything to do with unsealing the ballots, unless you have some magical way to link that ballot with a specific voter (hint: there isn't, even in these clusterfuck systems).
More often than not it's at the 'Tabulator', the computer in the precinct that sums the votes of all the machines at that location and relay it to the county seat. Interestingly, although the actual voting machines now have to pass some tests (after years of Republican obstructionism) the tabulators do not. They're all highly proprietary, closed source, not interoperable between manufacturers, and most of them use either Access or Excel for their database.
IIRC, the law says that in order to get the court order to unseal the ballot records the requester must first prove that vote fraud had taken place, but they're unable to prove fraud without access to the ballots. There is only one reason that I can think of to write the laws that way.
There's an antenna farm near here where we installed access control and security video. There was so much radiation that card readers couldn't work, and the weatherized piezoelectric keypads just sat there and beeped randomly. We had to dig up old-school contact-switch keypads and make a housing for them. The neighbors who lived just outside the gate were in their 80s and had lived there most of their adult lives without any issues.
My folks used to know a farming couple who lived across a small field from an inner-circle DEW Line radar station. The only problem they ever had was that they apparently had problems with color TVs failing almost immediately, so they had to stay with their old tube-based black and white set until the DEW Line was finally shut down.
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They should have had access control on the door, standalone PIN-only locksets are available for $150 and take only a few minutes to install.
Don't know about Apple, but the Microsoft store scans the IMEI at purchase as part of the transaction. They could tell police in five minutes which ones were not in the store and hadn't been sold.
headed past the Genius Bar
Which should indicate what kind of Genius staffs the store. Or do they have such high turnover that people don't recognize who is a co-worker and who isn't?
Is someone incompetent running the Inspector Generals Office?
They contract out the IT work, so yeah.
Better than the Compaq tech which removed the GOOD drive, degaussed it, then couldn't figure out why the RAID wouldn't rebuild.
That's a point generally forgotten when setting up backup systems; do test restores frequently to verify that they work and that you're still backing up the data you need. Nothing like having supposedly successful error-free backups for months, then when you need to restore something finding that all the tapes are blank (thanks Backup Exec!)
The best way to prove to your constituents that government doesn't work is to break it yourself.
Wonder how much of the lost data pertained to investigations of the DB contractor . . .
Waste? You haven't begun to see waste and inefficiency until you've seen the inside workings of an insurance company. By all the gods above and below, one of our customers actually had a position called "Software Archivist" who made us: 1) burn to CD a 60 mb program that was only available for download, 2) forge an official-looking label with the manufacturer's logo on it for the CD and jewel case, 3) rip another program that came on DVD onto 18 CDs since that was his only official archival medium, 4) forge labels for those, 5) print out almost 4,000 pages of manuals, in triplicate, that normally were accessed as PDFs, 6) forge binder covers for all of those. Amusingly enough, that was the insurer our company used for all the employee benefits.
Wow, haven't seen **that** error in a long time. Had completely forgotten about it.
The smoking areas at the college near my house have butt cans, two or three of them per shelter. There are always more butts on the ground next to the ash cans than there are in them. I've never understood the reasoning.
When I used to ride my bike I would get irritated seeing drivers throwing their butts out the car window. A couple of times at stoplights I picked it back up and pitched it back through the window. Then I got chased and almost run down, so stopped that foolishness.
I think the real problem is that courtesy is no longer (was never?) common.
Bingo.
Sign a release? Not if you're in public, where you have no expectation of privacy.
An option on a lot of these wearable cameras is a bulk erase, dumping all recordings. I'd be surprised if a lot of departments weren't insisting on having that feature enabled by default.
Keep in mind that Obama is the product of the Chicago Political Machine, where you don't succeed until you 1) prove you're dirty enough to buy into the club, 2) prove you're immoral enough to truly belong to the club. I never thought he'd be the second coming of FDR, but I never imagined he'd be Bush-lite.
No, how about we just replace IOS? The hardware's perfectly fine, it's just Cisco's OS that is an unmitigated piece of rotting carp.
That's what they teach in Cisco school, that you should be able to manage your entire enterprise from your desk. An instructor told us that you should use the same logon credentials throughout your enterprise because maintaining a full list was "impossible". Even on Cisco's enterprise management software there was no provision for expiring or rotating admin credentials, and the CCNIdiots gave me a puzzled look when I asked about it because they "couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to do that."
Of course they are, just like the idiots that have their house destroyed by flooding for the third or fourth time always rebuild in the same spot.
I was living, well, surviving, in St. Pete when the Dali museum opened. My roommate and I took one of rare days off to make 'greenies', and go to the museum. Neither of us had ever backed with pot before, and were really disappointed half an hour later when we felt almost nothing. We left for the museum anyway, and as we were walking into the building I stopped and said to Dan, "Holy crap, I just realized how fucked up I am!" He agreed that he was every bit as toasted. It was a very interesting four hours at the museum.
Clarification requested: Would talkie movies eventually go into public domain, or because they have sound recordings in them will we only get silent movies?
None of that has anything to do with unsealing the ballots, unless you have some magical way to link that ballot with a specific voter (hint: there isn't, even in these clusterfuck systems).
More often than not it's at the 'Tabulator', the computer in the precinct that sums the votes of all the machines at that location and relay it to the county seat. Interestingly, although the actual voting machines now have to pass some tests (after years of Republican obstructionism) the tabulators do not. They're all highly proprietary, closed source, not interoperable between manufacturers, and most of them use either Access or Excel for their database.
IIRC, the law says that in order to get the court order to unseal the ballot records the requester must first prove that vote fraud had taken place, but they're unable to prove fraud without access to the ballots. There is only one reason that I can think of to write the laws that way.
Private boarding school full of elite wankers, their lawyer probably spends most of his day fighting off the competition trying to get at the parents.
There's an antenna farm near here where we installed access control and security video. There was so much radiation that card readers couldn't work, and the weatherized piezoelectric keypads just sat there and beeped randomly. We had to dig up old-school contact-switch keypads and make a housing for them. The neighbors who lived just outside the gate were in their 80s and had lived there most of their adult lives without any issues.
My folks used to know a farming couple who lived across a small field from an inner-circle DEW Line radar station. The only problem they ever had was that they apparently had problems with color TVs failing almost immediately, so they had to stay with their old tube-based black and white set until the DEW Line was finally shut down.