You can get the same effect with incandescents by installing a diode in the fixture. Plus, it extends bulb life dramatically. I have bulb in the kitchen that is more than 4 years old and still going strong.
The question is really, "who isn't?" Funding from the state is must be at least partially predicated on how well a school averages on the TASP test. There is unquestionably some sort of powerful incentive; teachers and administrators are obsessed with TASP scores and the related "ranking."
I agree with your assessment, but contend that the time-wasing and idiotic scheduling are pervasive from kindergarten onward. The reason (at least in Texas) is that schools teach "to the test" (the Texas Academic Skills Program [TASP] test) rather than teaching usable skills (i.e. the venerated "three R's" of readin' ritin' and 'rithmatic). The result is bored students who lack basic learning skills and frustration with the education environment. Further, "education" involves far more indoctrination into hip. politically correct dogma than practical learning
The best hope for restoring the public indoctrination system to an education system is eliminating standardized testing, stripping from curricula all non-practical elements (especially in elementary grades), and restoring to educators the ability to deal with disruptive/problem students by whatever reasonable means are necessary. (Most classrooms are a zoo.)
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In other news tonight, Microsoft kingpin Steve Ballmer was arrested in connection with the theft of several thousand dollars worth of laptop PCs configured to run the competing Linux operating system. As he was led away by police, witnesses reported Ballmer saying, "It has to stop somewhere! Won't someone *please* think of the children!" Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.
"...it's a legal alias, but he has to get an actual -ID- showing it before he can get them to cooperate."
I am sure the procedure varies from state to state, but in Texas, all you have to do is go to the county clerk's office and file an Assumed Name Certificate, which indicates that John Doe (that's you) is Doing Business As (DBA) Jane Smith. A certified copy of the filed certificate is official ID proving you are Jane Smith. It also helps to include a reference to this on business documents and financial transactions related to the business, e.g. "John Doe, DBA Jane Smith."
"On the other hand, most (90% i guess) of my spam advertise services/products which the contact is someone in the U.S."
Mine is just the opposite in the sense that the hosting service for the spamvertized website is always overseas (China, Korea, et al). I have also found that my spam volume (hundreds daily) is reduced by at least 50 percent by the simple expedient of blocking at the server level ALL email sent from IP addresses registered through APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE, and AFRINIC. Since I do not receive any legitimate communication from people in the affected countries, I lose nothing and gain a great deal.
If the moderation system works at all, the parent should wind up -5 Troll/Flamebait because it is an ad hominem attack rather than a discussion of ideas. We shall see.
For our U.S.-based business, we simply blacklist all email from IP addresses outside the U.S. and Canada. We do not do business with any foreign interests, so we receive no legitimate email from other countries. This cuts our spam load by about 70 percent.
The other thing is to blackhole email that the domain name in the From field (e.g. comcast.net) does not match the sending IP. This reduces spam (which invariably has a fake From address) by another 20 percent. Whatever gets past these is handled at the local machine level by filters. Net result: perhaps 5 spams per week (out of thousands) make it to users' Inboxes.
Another problem in a large disaster is that you have literally every firest-responder in the area all trying to communicate on one or two frequencies (police and fire). This is where proper Incident Command becomes crucial, allocating frequencies to different departments and to different purposes: i.e. Fire Department Search & Rescue, Police Department Evacuation Operations, Emergency (beyond the obvious one at hand).
A proper command and control structure solves many of the communications in a disaster scenario.
As a volunteer firefighter and EMT, I can confirm the funding issue. Our department applies for FEMA grants regularly whereby to acquire new equipment; sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't, either way, the red tape takes a long time. We applied for a FEMA grant to upgrade out radio system in 2002. We got the equipment last week.
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"Doesn't change the fact that guns are designed to kill."
Guns are designed to fire cuprous lead projectiles at high velocity.
Baseball bats are designed to stike baseballs and hurl them at low velocity.
Cars are designed to transport people and goods at low velocity.
Knives are designed to cut things that need cutting.
Beer bottles are designed to hold beer.
All have been used by PEOPLE to kill other people.
See the problem?
"its more like 75% light for 50% less."
You can get the same effect with incandescents by installing a diode in the fixture. Plus, it extends bulb life dramatically. I have bulb in the kitchen that is more than 4 years old and still going strong.
As long as they are selling pirated goods and hawking them via spam, I don't see the problem here. Death to all spammers, right?
Mule deer? Ah, try white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus.
Dunno how real it is, but there is a Pleo video (sort of) here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6696492528 471015197&q=pleo+robot
I wonder if the purveyors were also spammers? I haven't received any porn spam since about last October. Coincidence?
"Who's teaching to that test?"
The question is really, "who isn't?" Funding from the state is must be at least partially predicated on how well a school averages on the TASP test. There is unquestionably some sort of powerful incentive; teachers and administrators are obsessed with TASP scores and the related "ranking."
I agree with your assessment, but contend that the time-wasing and idiotic scheduling are pervasive from kindergarten onward. The reason (at least in Texas) is that schools teach "to the test" (the Texas Academic Skills Program [TASP] test) rather than teaching usable skills (i.e. the venerated "three R's" of readin' ritin' and 'rithmatic). The result is bored students who lack basic learning skills and frustration with the education environment. Further, "education" involves far more indoctrination into hip. politically correct dogma than practical learning
The best hope for restoring the public indoctrination system to an education system is eliminating standardized testing, stripping from curricula all non-practical elements (especially in elementary grades), and restoring to educators the ability to deal with disruptive/problem students by whatever reasonable means are necessary. (Most classrooms are a zoo.)
In other news tonight, Microsoft kingpin Steve Ballmer was arrested in connection with the theft of several thousand dollars worth of laptop PCs configured to run the competing Linux operating system. As he was led away by police, witnesses reported Ballmer saying, "It has to stop somewhere! Won't someone *please* think of the children!" Ballmer then reportedly munbled over and over, "Damned pinguins, damned pinguins," until police took him away.
The parent is NOT a troll. The threading code IS broken.
posterior occipital protuberance?
Whoever modded the parent doesn't get it: NERDanderthals.
(Foghorn Leghorn) "It's a joke, I say, it's a joke, son!" (Foghorn Leghorn)
WOuld that I had mod points and the means to award the parent +9 Insightful. Bravo, sir.
"...it's a legal alias, but he has to get an actual -ID- showing it before he can get them to cooperate."
I am sure the procedure varies from state to state, but in Texas, all you have to do is go to the county clerk's office and file an Assumed Name Certificate, which indicates that John Doe (that's you) is Doing Business As (DBA) Jane Smith. A certified copy of the filed certificate is official ID proving you are Jane Smith. It also helps to include a reference to this on business documents and financial transactions related to the business, e.g. "John Doe, DBA Jane Smith."
"Maybe someone needs to starts DOSing the sites that are advertised for in spam, then people would be afraid to go to spammers for advertising."
It's been done http://mlns.starring.se/ and in one case it worked so well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_security that the spammers declared war on the internet in defense of their right to spam.
"On the other hand, most (90% i guess) of my spam advertise services/products which the contact is someone in the U.S."
Mine is just the opposite in the sense that the hosting service for the spamvertized website is always overseas (China, Korea, et al). I have also found that my spam volume (hundreds daily) is reduced by at least 50 percent by the simple expedient of blocking at the server level ALL email sent from IP addresses registered through APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE, and AFRINIC. Since I do not receive any legitimate communication from people in the affected countries, I lose nothing and gain a great deal.
It works for me.
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Dear Mods:
The parent is a parody of the opening dialog (poorly translated from Japanese into English) in a video game called "Zero Wing." Please see http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video
Thank you.
If the moderation system works at all, the parent should wind up -5 Troll/Flamebait because it is an ad hominem attack rather than a discussion of ideas. We shall see.
"So good in fact, why don't they put the damn phone in your watch!"
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They did, back in 2003: http://www.wristdreams.com/archives/000831.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11
For our U.S.-based business, we simply blacklist all email from IP addresses outside the U.S. and Canada. We do not do business with any foreign interests, so we receive no legitimate email from other countries. This cuts our spam load by about 70 percent.
The other thing is to blackhole email that the domain name in the From field (e.g. comcast.net) does not match the sending IP. This reduces spam (which invariably has a fake From address) by another 20 percent. Whatever gets past these is handled at the local machine level by filters. Net result: perhaps 5 spams per week (out of thousands) make it to users' Inboxes.
Another problem in a large disaster is that you have literally every firest-responder in the area all trying to communicate on one or two frequencies (police and fire). This is where proper Incident Command becomes crucial, allocating frequencies to different departments and to different purposes: i.e. Fire Department Search & Rescue, Police Department Evacuation Operations, Emergency (beyond the obvious one at hand).
A proper command and control structure solves many of the communications in a disaster scenario.
As a volunteer firefighter and EMT, I can confirm the funding issue. Our department applies for FEMA grants regularly whereby to acquire new equipment; sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't, either way, the red tape takes a long time. We applied for a FEMA grant to upgrade out radio system in 2002. We got the equipment last week.
Amen to that--and I mean that sincerely enough to NOT post AC.
A glaring illustration of why you should not post on /. when you have been drinking.
Mea culpa