We had a pedo case in our town a couple of years back. The local cops were doing nothing*, so the complaint was filed in a nearby jurisdiction. It even made the local news, with a reporter shoving a camera in the chief of police's face and asking what was up. Deer in the headlights reaction.
*It involved a popular church elder, IIRC. The banjo music is powerful in these parts.
Maybe. With a procedure in place to record and place passwords into safekeeping upon changing them, any deviation from that policy could be considered intent to damage business processes. Hence the more severe punishment.
Had Childs just been escorted to the door and without such a procedure, he could claim that he forgot the passwords due to stress. Or left his unofficial hard copy behind at work*, placing the burden on his superiors to account for the contents of his desk after his departure.
*Attached to the bottom of a red Swingline stapler.
They gave me a 60 day WARN notice. By the time my last day came around, the boss still hadn't selected my replacement. He wasn't the brightest bulb in the marquee.
... passwords were in a sealed envelope in my desk drawer, locked. That way, if I got hit by a bus, the boss could break into the desk and hand envelope over to my replacement.
When I left, I handed him the key to my desk and said, "You know where they are."
I think you are confusing self-directed post graduate study with the K-12 home schooling sometimes abused to keep kids away from mainstream curriculum. Not all home schooling is abused this way. But often enough that its a stereotype I'd hate to mark a kid with unless he/she was exceptional* in some way to demonstrate accomplishments beyond the mean.
... looking at utility level generation in a combined cycle with absorption cooling? At industrial levels, this cooling technology is approaching economic parity with vapor compression cooling. Even better, if the waste heat is free.
HUDs aren't green because it's convenient, but because they're easy on night vision
There is some disagreement on this. The rods in the human eye are more sensitive to lower levels of green light than red. Resolution is better, but green will reduce human night vision more so than red at higher illumination levels.
Green is more compatible with military night vision equipment, as that is more sensitive at the red and near infrared wavelengths. However, this isn't an issue with helmet HUDs as the light doesn't leak out and back into the night vision optics.
Likewise (as you pointed out) helmets are a different environment than cockpit lighting. Face reflection should be a non issue, as the field of view that needs to be illuminated is only a few square centimeters immediately in front of the eyes. A small patch of dark camo paint under the eyes should eliminate it quite well.
I would suspect that the technology to selectively modulate the different color intensities to suit various light levels should be simple to implement.
If its 'information overload', perhaps they should be using color displays. It might be better to separate different information types or alert levels by color.
Its also a focus of security issues and related press coverage. So if you want to go out in a blaze of media-covered glory, its a good choice.
If you just want to die, walk into the wrong neighborhood in LA wearing the incorrect color bandanna and pull a gun. But that won't warrant more than a sentence in the daily police blotter.
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
Not so in Washington State. Purchasers are still liable for paying a 'use tax' on items not taxed at the point of sale. So if you bring an item back into the state, you had better fill out the proper state tax forms and sent them a check.
In reality, they aren't going to enforce this for minor purchases. But for major ones, they do. A friend of mine spent a couple of grand on a fancy camera in Oregon (no sales tax) about a decade ago. At the end of the tax year, the Wash State dept of revenue contacted her with a copy of her credit card records in hand demanding payment.
Yes, apparently our state watches your credit card records. Just wait until we get GPS based road taxes. Travel to Portland and the revenue people will interrogate you upon your return.
Nope. Along with the grade and other factors, rail or conveyor are not as flexible as trucks. The locations from which they dig change too rapidly as they move through the mine site to set up a fixed conveyance.
And this is a problem with the buyback programs: The utility is expected to bear the cost of storing off peak power.
The solution might be to separate energy and system infrastructure costs. And then assess a power storage charge against the solar installations (that don't have batteries plus smart grid coordination) for the power that they deliver when it can't be used.
Solar energy could then incorporate intermediaries who could buy, store and sell energy on the grid to match demand.
This is what will happen. But keep this in mind: A significant portion of your per/kWh charge is actually covering utilities fixed costs. It differs between regions, but I live in the Pacific Northwest and energy/fuel costs are a very small portion of my utilities operating costs.
Now imagine a rate structure where I pay for my fixed costs separately from my energy costs. The energy portion would drop to near zero and my motivation to conserve it would do so as well. Fixed costs would depend on my peak consumption, which would motivate time of use metering as well as peak shifting (aka. a smart grid). Implementing this isn't cheap. My utility is partway there with remote metering. But their IT infrastructure is basically garbage and they failed as an investor owned utility. So raising capital is a show-stopper for them.
In some ways, a utility operates like a bank, shifting one type of resource (lots of variable small loads, maintenance expenses, fuel costs, etc.) for block power purchasing deals and raising capital at fixed costs. Mandating a change in the way they structure their business is going to produce some winners and losers (my local power co being on the losing side). And much like banking, people will not put up with the system shutting down. So there will be a bailout. And guess who will pay for that.
If I got a "Christmas Card" from somebody on my company's email I would've allowed the java applet to run.
When I worked for Boeing, one of the supervisors on my project was a fan of Asian male porn (use your imagination). More than a few e-mails supposedly from him contained malware. Given the firewalls we had, I have to think that the infection was hosted on his system. Probably a laptop he carried back and forth to work.
Fortunatly, I ran a Linux desktop, so no Asian male porn popups for me.
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This.
We had a pedo case in our town a couple of years back. The local cops were doing nothing*, so the complaint was filed in a nearby jurisdiction. It even made the local news, with a reporter shoving a camera in the chief of police's face and asking what was up. Deer in the headlights reaction.
*It involved a popular church elder, IIRC. The banjo music is powerful in these parts.
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Maybe. With a procedure in place to record and place passwords into safekeeping upon changing them, any deviation from that policy could be considered intent to damage business processes. Hence the more severe punishment.
Had Childs just been escorted to the door and without such a procedure, he could claim that he forgot the passwords due to stress. Or left his unofficial hard copy behind at work*, placing the burden on his superiors to account for the contents of his desk after his departure.
*Attached to the bottom of a red Swingline stapler.
What would they have done had you been hit by a bus?
A sane turn-over policy has to account for situations where the admin is no longer available to turn over passwords.
They gave me a 60 day WARN notice. By the time my last day came around, the boss still hadn't selected my replacement. He wasn't the brightest bulb in the marquee.
When I left, I handed him the key to my desk and said, "You know where they are."
And yet, when you talk with them, they still think the earth is 6000 years old and was made in 6 days.
So my question is: The 85th percentile of what?
I think you are confusing self-directed post graduate study with the K-12 home schooling sometimes abused to keep kids away from mainstream curriculum. Not all home schooling is abused this way. But often enough that its a stereotype I'd hate to mark a kid with unless he/she was exceptional* in some way to demonstrate accomplishments beyond the mean.
*Yeah, I know. All our kids are above average.
Electricity is too easy to control compared to other energy sources in spite of a few significant examples to the contrary.
HUDs aren't green because it's convenient, but because they're easy on night vision
There is some disagreement on this. The rods in the human eye are more sensitive to lower levels of green light than red. Resolution is better, but green will reduce human night vision more so than red at higher illumination levels.
Green is more compatible with military night vision equipment, as that is more sensitive at the red and near infrared wavelengths. However, this isn't an issue with helmet HUDs as the light doesn't leak out and back into the night vision optics.
Likewise (as you pointed out) helmets are a different environment than cockpit lighting. Face reflection should be a non issue, as the field of view that needs to be illuminated is only a few square centimeters immediately in front of the eyes. A small patch of dark camo paint under the eyes should eliminate it quite well.
I would suspect that the technology to selectively modulate the different color intensities to suit various light levels should be simple to implement.
If its 'information overload', perhaps they should be using color displays. It might be better to separate different information types or alert levels by color.
many larger fire resistant safes (gun safes, etc.) have fire stopped power and network feedthroughs. Put a NAS in one* and plug it into your LAN.
*Assuming you have the justification to purchase such a safe for other valuables.
Either no windows in secure meeting rooms. Or they stick little piezoelectric transducers to them and drive them with white noise.
Its also a focus of security issues and related press coverage. So if you want to go out in a blaze of media-covered glory, its a good choice.
If you just want to die, walk into the wrong neighborhood in LA wearing the incorrect color bandanna and pull a gun. But that won't warrant more than a sentence in the daily police blotter.
Reason for leaving last job: Fired for spending all my time updating Google+. And posting on Slashdot.
What I don't understand is that if you buy something while you're on vacation or while you're working in another state, you pay the local sales tax where you buy the product and your home state doesn't give a rat's ass about it. They would be hard pressed to prove where you bought it. But if you buy online over the "internet", your home state thinks they deserve to tax your purchase.
Not so in Washington State. Purchasers are still liable for paying a 'use tax' on items not taxed at the point of sale. So if you bring an item back into the state, you had better fill out the proper state tax forms and sent them a check.
In reality, they aren't going to enforce this for minor purchases. But for major ones, they do. A friend of mine spent a couple of grand on a fancy camera in Oregon (no sales tax) about a decade ago. At the end of the tax year, the Wash State dept of revenue contacted her with a copy of her credit card records in hand demanding payment.
Yes, apparently our state watches your credit card records. Just wait until we get GPS based road taxes. Travel to Portland and the revenue people will interrogate you upon your return.
Most people get fat in prison, not ripped.
True. But not the smarter, motivated prisoners. I'm sure they can find some fatso who will trade protein for extra cupcakes.
Google 'Prison Workout Book'. There are a lot of books out on how to get/stay in shape without gym equipment.
Nope. Along with the grade and other factors, rail or conveyor are not as flexible as trucks. The locations from which they dig change too rapidly as they move through the mine site to set up a fixed conveyance.
I'm willing to bet that the first image that most have in their mind when they read this is the guy weaving in and out of heavy traffic
No. Its Adrienne Barbeau in Cannonball Run.
For those unfamiliar with firearms, a handy guide.
Except, perhaps, at night.
And this is a problem with the buyback programs: The utility is expected to bear the cost of storing off peak power.
The solution might be to separate energy and system infrastructure costs. And then assess a power storage charge against the solar installations (that don't have batteries plus smart grid coordination) for the power that they deliver when it can't be used.
Solar energy could then incorporate intermediaries who could buy, store and sell energy on the grid to match demand.
This is what will happen. But keep this in mind: A significant portion of your per/kWh charge is actually covering utilities fixed costs. It differs between regions, but I live in the Pacific Northwest and energy/fuel costs are a very small portion of my utilities operating costs.
Now imagine a rate structure where I pay for my fixed costs separately from my energy costs. The energy portion would drop to near zero and my motivation to conserve it would do so as well. Fixed costs would depend on my peak consumption, which would motivate time of use metering as well as peak shifting (aka. a smart grid). Implementing this isn't cheap. My utility is partway there with remote metering. But their IT infrastructure is basically garbage and they failed as an investor owned utility. So raising capital is a show-stopper for them.
In some ways, a utility operates like a bank, shifting one type of resource (lots of variable small loads, maintenance expenses, fuel costs, etc.) for block power purchasing deals and raising capital at fixed costs. Mandating a change in the way they structure their business is going to produce some winners and losers (my local power co being on the losing side). And much like banking, people will not put up with the system shutting down. So there will be a bailout. And guess who will pay for that.
If I got a "Christmas Card" from somebody on my company's email I would've allowed the java applet to run.
When I worked for Boeing, one of the supervisors on my project was a fan of Asian male porn (use your imagination). More than a few e-mails supposedly from him contained malware. Given the firewalls we had, I have to think that the infection was hosted on his system. Probably a laptop he carried back and forth to work.
Fortunatly, I ran a Linux desktop, so no Asian male porn popups for me.