The businessmen carrying those garment bags/steamer trunks are the #2 problem, the #1 problem is the women going to visit somebody carrying those huge, cheap, bags along with their purse and another carry-on bag. I fly quite a bit on business myself and a friend of mine travels 4 out of 5 days. Neither of us carry more than a laptop computer bag on the plane. When I travel for pleasure and I don't need my laptop, I carry a very small bag with me, usually a canvas bag that was handed out at a convention or seminar somewhere. Last February I found that one should NEVER put pilferable electronic items, such as an MP3 player, in a checked bag on US Air.
On a flight returning home from vacation, I had 3 bags that I wanted to check; one was a large suitcase, one was a standard issue businessman wheeled garment bag/steamer trunk, and one was a gym bag (which I could have easily carried on). The ticket agent told me that she was going to charge a significant amount of money for the third bag because the limit is 2 checked bags per passenger. I picked up the large garment bag and told her, "Oh, no thanks, I'll carry THIS bag on the plane... is it a full flight?" The ticket agent changed her mind and told me that she would make an exception "just this one time". The funny thing is that if I had carried the garment bag to the gate that I could have gotten it gate checked at no extra cost. I had anticipated a possible showdown concerning checking three bags and I had packed all of the non-carry-on-able items in the large suitcase just in case the ticket agent was a bigger dick than I was.
Why is it that the only US government recommended way to fix this alleged security problem is to install a patch? Why did they not list any other possible ways to remediate the problem, such as replacing the OS? I am going to have to agree with the conspiracy theorists on this one -- the government didn't suddenly become concerned about a security problem in Windows, there is some other reason that the government wants people to install this "patch".
Carry-on luggage is nothing but a total hassle for other passengers and crewmembers. I have seen people trying to stuff three-suiter suitcases in overhead bins and I have had my single small convention handout bag, which contained my eyeglasses, crushed when some assclown tried to stuff just one more over packed garment bag/steamer truck into the bin. Perhaps they could allow one small bag per passenger, limited to the size of a regular attaché case (and a purse counts toward the limit) -- and then strictly ENFORCE the limits.
The next problem I can see is people wearing vests with oversized pockets that will be sold specifically to circumvent the carry-on bag limit.
Another issue is that airlines have stopped serving meals and are encouraging people to carry their own lunches onto the plane. Perhaps seat 12C's cold drink is Binary Part A (which is reasonably safe to drink) and seat 20D's cold drink is Binary Part B (which is also reasonably safe to drink, although it tastes worse than Part A). The term "mystery meat" could also take on a whole new meaning when it is in a sandwich that is carried onto an airplane.
I am afraid that the 380 Volts DC figure that was mentioned seems to be really out in left field.
ALL of the DC powered servers available from Sun and Dell are 48VDC. I did some Googling for other DC powered servers and found that they are also ALL 48V DC. 48VDC is a worldwide standard for powering telco equipment, although some telco equipment operates at 24VDC. I saw 90 volts tossed out in a post as a telco voltage -- 90 volts is the AC RINGING voltage (the nominal ringing voltage is 88 volts at 20 Hz); the normal voltage on an idle telephone line is 48 volts DC. The discussion in TFA regarding the use of larger conductors for DC powered servers makes more sense if you are talking about 48 volts rather than 380 volts.
The latte' bribe survey was done by somebody who was working for the company who's passwords were compromised, and most of the passwords were found to be valid. If somebody would offer me something to divulge a password, I would refused the offer; also, the triviality of this bribe would have raised serious alarm bells with me. Some people have enough integrity and are not desperate enough to lie.
In practice, I would imagine that the bribe for a useful Login/Password would be a bit more substantial, and that if the Login/Password were not valid, that the person who took the bribe would be made to realize that welshing on a bribe is not a good choice to make.
wireless TV remotes -- YES, wireless mice -- maybe, wireless keyboards -- why?, wireless printers -- why?, wireless any sort of data storage device -- no.
It seems that some people are going gaga over wireless devices. I admit that it is a matter of personal preference and that some people prefer aesthetics over practicality. There are tradeoffs that are made when one chooses wired versus wireless. Things that are mobile or used while wandering around the house or office should be wireless, things that are only moved when they are upgraded don't need to be wireless. Many people are needlessly using wireless devices who do not know that they are actually making their life harder and potentially increasing the possibility of people eavesdropping on them? How many clueless users are blaming their PCs for problems caused by their wireless peripherals? How many people don't realize that the batteries in these devices either have to be replaced regularly, or if they are rechargeable, that they will eventually no longer hold a charge?
I know that several of my neighbors were clueless about their wireless phones not working when the power goes out -- until we had a three day long power outage. Many of those neighbors now have a corded phone for backup.
"I always thought it was easier to just torture somebody for the password? "
I thought that it was easier and more reliable to just bribe somebody who has hte password. There was an article a while back that indicated that some people will divulge passwords for something as trivial as a latte' or chocolate -- the cost goes up from there.
I don't think that the grandparent was dicussing your situation at all. He was pointing out a very common situation, and your situation is NOT that common. You are not in the target market for the Media PC. The Media PC folks are trying to get a mass market acceptance of their view of the convergence of televions and computers, they do not want people building their own version of Media PCs.
When domain wildcarding was done with large, popular TLD's such as.com, a very large number of people are affected globally and it involved a private company in order to better its own position. When a small country such as Cameroon does it to their TLD, only a relatively small number of people are affected -- how many active.cm domains can there be? For the most part, the only affected people are the residents of Cameroon. How is this any worse than countries that firewall those parts of the Internet that the countrys' leaders don't fancy?
I agree with you that hair gel is not a good long-term solution to make a scratched disk playable. TFA used test CDs that contained music which I assume is commonly available, and your solution would work well to replace the music that was used on the test disks.
Some scratched CDs/DVDs contain data that is not available anywhere else or may be difficult to find. Using hair gel on a scratched disk to salvage data is reasonable and it may be easier than finding replacement data, even if it is readily available.
I am not going to argue whether Google is any better than Adobe, but Google does provide code back.
All of the apps that you mentioned have either been ported to Linux or Google has provided open source libraries:
Google provided code developed for Picasa for Linux back to the Wine and Mozilla projects.
Google Earth has been ported to Linux (I don't know the details).
GTalk is supported on Linux by Tapioca (any others?) using the libjingle library released by Google.
The libjingle library license is pretty open; redistribution must include Google's copyright notice,
modifications are OK, and no using the Google name in advertising a product using the code.
I just installed Ubuntu on a machine at home. The printer (HP LaserJet 1020) install on the Ubuntu box was much easier and took a fraction of the time than it did when I installed the same printer on an XP box. The printer was originally bought for use with an XP box and I didn't check for Linux compatibility before I installed it on the Ubuntu box. CUPS comes preinstalled and running on Ubuntu. The printer install wizard makes installing a printer with CUPS a very fast and easy point and click process. I noticed that Ubuntu also has a package available specifically for use with HP printers, I didn't try it because the already installed CUPS works fine.
I have installed printers on FreeBSD, other Linix, and Solaris boxes in the past and know what a pain in the ass it is. I was truly amazed when after just a few mouse clicks the wizard said that it was sending a test page to the printer, I heard the printer start up, and then a perfect CUPS test page emerged from the printer.
STF technology is WONDERFUL for reducing weight and cost, increasing flexibility and comfort, and providing protection to areas of the body where currently available body armor isn't practical. There will also be a whole slew of other military and civilian uses for STF.
It might be interesting to have a military field uniform that can integrate removable pieces of STF body armor. Even though this is great armor technology, it would still make piss poor uniforms. How were they able to make STF machine washable when its main constituent, PEG, is water soluble? Three (or whatever) sheets of Kevlar, not to mention the STF, is going to weigh a HELL of a lot more than the fabric that field uniforms are currently made of, and it is not going to be anywhere near as durable. STF fabric is also not going to breath; it would be like wearing bullet resistant vinyl rain pants and rain coat.
I see that you do not have military field experience. Even if it would provide reasonable protection uniforms made using this technology would not be washable using normal laundry procedures, would have a short service life, would be heavy, and would not breath. Someday, this or another technology may advance to the point that ballistic uniforms may become practical; for now leave this technology to removable body armor.
I understand that corn is not the best crop from which to produce ethanol. Two crops that are better than corn for ethanol production are sugar cane and switchgrass. In Europe, surplus wine has been used as a feedstock for ethanol fuel. I wonder if sugar beets, which can grow in many more areas than sugar cane, would also be better than corn. If E85 usage took off in Europe and/or the US, better feedstocks and production methods would become available.
Random notes:
I believe that E85 ethanol contains 15% gasoline in other to fully denature the alcohol. I noticed that there are articles about E85 fires presenting some unique problems because it both floats on water and absorbs water. The selection of currently available vehicles that can run E85 is severely limited, and most of them are gas (or E85) guzzlers. It will be interesting to see how E85 competes with gasoline on price; whether it is compared by volume (litre or gallon) or the cost is compared based upon heat energy available.
There is another dynamic; high school age kids who either work after school and have access to their own money or have very generous allowances and can buy their own lunch and bring it to school.
I think that it might be interesting to have a study of four groups of high school kids:
Group One -- has the resources to buy what they want to for lunch and bring it to school
Group Two -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches, and their moms tell the school what they can buy for lunch
Group Three -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches and their moms don't tell the school what they can buy for lunch
Group Four -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches and their moms pack their lunch
Groups Two and Three assume that school lunches are prepaid by the parents and/or the government
What is the difference in the nutrition in the lunches that the kids in these four groups actually consume?
Ten years after high school graduation, which group produced the healthiest adults?, the happiest adults?
I call bullshit. If my grocery store hassled me for buying a butane lighter or fruit I believe that I would find another store to buy them from. I recently bought a lighter similar to the one in the link from a local mega-drugstore and nobody asked for ID (they do require an ID to buy Sudafed). What's going to happen when the thousands of roadside fruitstands start selling bushels of peaches to anybody who has the cash to buy them?
All of the magnetic bracelets that I have seen are not intended to be stationary on the wrist, and unless they are too tight, they are free to move about on the wrist. The motion of the wrist is sufficient to power an automatic wristwatch and I would expect that the magnets in a magnetic bracelet, moving in relation to the wrist, could generate small electrical fields.
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The businessmen carrying those garment bags/steamer trunks are the #2 problem, the #1 problem is the women going to visit somebody carrying those huge, cheap, bags along with their purse and another carry-on bag. I fly quite a bit on business myself and a friend of mine travels 4 out of 5 days. Neither of us carry more than a laptop computer bag on the plane. When I travel for pleasure and I don't need my laptop, I carry a very small bag with me, usually a canvas bag that was handed out at a convention or seminar somewhere. Last February I found that one should NEVER put pilferable electronic items, such as an MP3 player, in a checked bag on US Air.
... is it a full flight?" The ticket agent changed her mind and told me that she would make an exception "just this one time". The funny thing is that if I had carried the garment bag to the gate that I could have gotten it gate checked at no extra cost. I had anticipated a possible showdown concerning checking three bags and I had packed all of the non-carry-on-able items in the large suitcase just in case the ticket agent was a bigger dick than I was.
On a flight returning home from vacation, I had 3 bags that I wanted to check; one was a large suitcase, one was a standard issue businessman wheeled garment bag/steamer trunk, and one was a gym bag (which I could have easily carried on). The ticket agent told me that she was going to charge a significant amount of money for the third bag because the limit is 2 checked bags per passenger. I picked up the large garment bag and told her, "Oh, no thanks, I'll carry THIS bag on the plane
Why is it that the only US government recommended way to fix this alleged security problem is to install a patch? Why did they not list any other possible ways to remediate the problem, such as replacing the OS? I am going to have to agree with the conspiracy theorists on this one -- the government didn't suddenly become concerned about a security problem in Windows, there is some other reason that the government wants people to install this "patch".
Carry-on luggage is nothing but a total hassle for other passengers and crewmembers. I have seen people trying to stuff three-suiter suitcases in overhead bins and I have had my single small convention handout bag, which contained my eyeglasses, crushed when some assclown tried to stuff just one more over packed garment bag/steamer truck into the bin. Perhaps they could allow one small bag per passenger, limited to the size of a regular attaché case (and a purse counts toward the limit) -- and then strictly ENFORCE the limits.
The next problem I can see is people wearing vests with oversized pockets that will be sold specifically to circumvent the carry-on bag limit.
Another issue is that airlines have stopped serving meals and are encouraging people to carry their own lunches onto the plane. Perhaps seat 12C's cold drink is Binary Part A (which is reasonably safe to drink) and seat 20D's cold drink is Binary Part B (which is also reasonably safe to drink, although it tastes worse than Part A). The term "mystery meat" could also take on a whole new meaning when it is in a sandwich that is carried onto an airplane.
I am afraid that the 380 Volts DC figure that was mentioned seems to be really out in left field.
ALL of the DC powered servers available from Sun and Dell are 48VDC. I did some Googling for other DC powered servers and found that they are also ALL 48V DC. 48VDC is a worldwide standard for powering telco equipment, although some telco equipment operates at 24VDC. I saw 90 volts tossed out in a post as a telco voltage -- 90 volts is the AC RINGING voltage (the nominal ringing voltage is 88 volts at 20 Hz); the normal voltage on an idle telephone line is 48 volts DC. The discussion in TFA regarding the use of larger conductors for DC powered servers makes more sense if you are talking about 48 volts rather than 380 volts.
The latte' bribe survey was done by somebody who was working for the company who's passwords were compromised, and most of the passwords were found to be valid. If somebody would offer me something to divulge a password, I would refused the offer; also, the triviality of this bribe would have raised serious alarm bells with me. Some people have enough integrity and are not desperate enough to lie.
In practice, I would imagine that the bribe for a useful Login/Password would be a bit more substantial, and that if the Login/Password were not valid, that the person who took the bribe would be made to realize that welshing on a bribe is not a good choice to make.
wireless TV remotes -- YES, wireless mice -- maybe, wireless keyboards -- why?, wireless printers -- why?, wireless any sort of data storage device -- no.
It seems that some people are going gaga over wireless devices. I admit that it is a matter of personal preference and that some people prefer aesthetics over practicality. There are tradeoffs that are made when one chooses wired versus wireless. Things that are mobile or used while wandering around the house or office should be wireless, things that are only moved when they are upgraded don't need to be wireless. Many people are needlessly using wireless devices who do not know that they are actually making their life harder and potentially increasing the possibility of people eavesdropping on them? How many clueless users are blaming their PCs for problems caused by their wireless peripherals? How many people don't realize that the batteries in these devices either have to be replaced regularly, or if they are rechargeable, that they will eventually no longer hold a charge?
I know that several of my neighbors were clueless about their wireless phones not working when the power goes out -- until we had a three day long power outage. Many of those neighbors now have a corded phone for backup.
"I always thought it was easier to just torture somebody for the password? "
I thought that it was easier and more reliable to just bribe somebody who has hte password. There was an article a while back that indicated that some people will divulge passwords for something as trivial as a latte' or chocolate -- the cost goes up from there.
I don't think that the grandparent was dicussing your situation at all. He was pointing out a very common situation, and your situation is NOT that common. You are not in the target market for the Media PC. The Media PC folks are trying to get a mass market acceptance of their view of the convergence of televions and computers, they do not want people building their own version of Media PCs.
When domain wildcarding was done with large, popular TLD's such as .com, a very large number of people are affected globally and it involved a private company in order to better its own position. When a small country such as Cameroon does it to their TLD, only a relatively small number of people are affected -- how many active .cm domains can there be? For the most part, the only affected people are the residents of Cameroon. How is this any worse than countries that firewall those parts of the Internet that the countrys' leaders don't fancy?
I agree with you that hair gel is not a good long-term solution to make a scratched disk playable. TFA used test CDs that contained music which I assume is commonly available, and your solution would work well to replace the music that was used on the test disks.
Some scratched CDs/DVDs contain data that is not available anywhere else or may be difficult to find. Using hair gel on a scratched disk to salvage data is reasonable and it may be easier than finding replacement data, even if it is readily available.
I am not going to argue whether Google is any better than Adobe, but Google does provide code back.
All of the apps that you mentioned have either been ported to Linux or Google has provided open source libraries:
Google provided code developed for Picasa for Linux back to the Wine and Mozilla projects.
Google Earth has been ported to Linux (I don't know the details).
GTalk is supported on Linux by Tapioca (any others?) using the libjingle library released by Google.
The libjingle library license is pretty open; redistribution must include Google's copyright notice,
modifications are OK, and no using the Google name in advertising a product using the code.
I just installed Ubuntu on a machine at home. The printer (HP LaserJet 1020) install on the Ubuntu box was much easier and took a fraction of the time than it did when I installed the same printer on an XP box. The printer was originally bought for use with an XP box and I didn't check for Linux compatibility before I installed it on the Ubuntu box. CUPS comes preinstalled and running on Ubuntu. The printer install wizard makes installing a printer with CUPS a very fast and easy point and click process. I noticed that Ubuntu also has a package available specifically for use with HP printers, I didn't try it because the already installed CUPS works fine.
I have installed printers on FreeBSD, other Linix, and Solaris boxes in the past and know what a pain in the ass it is. I was truly amazed when after just a few mouse clicks the wizard said that it was sending a test page to the printer, I heard the printer start up, and then a perfect CUPS test page emerged from the printer.
I don't care what my computer looks like -- ugly can be covered or ignored. It is much more difficult to quiet or ignore a noisey computer.
STF technology is WONDERFUL for reducing weight and cost, increasing flexibility and comfort, and providing protection to areas of the body where currently available body armor isn't practical. There will also be a whole slew of other military and civilian uses for STF.
It might be interesting to have a military field uniform that can integrate removable pieces of STF body armor. Even though this is great armor technology, it would still make piss poor uniforms. How were they able to make STF machine washable when its main constituent, PEG, is water soluble? Three (or whatever) sheets of Kevlar, not to mention the STF, is going to weigh a HELL of a lot more than the fabric that field uniforms are currently made of, and it is not going to be anywhere near as durable. STF fabric is also not going to breath; it would be like wearing bullet resistant vinyl rain pants and rain coat.
I see that you do not have military field experience. Even if it would provide reasonable protection uniforms made using this technology would not be washable using normal laundry procedures, would have a short service life, would be heavy, and would not breath. Someday, this or another technology may advance to the point that ballistic uniforms may become practical; for now leave this technology to removable body armor.
I understand that corn is not the best crop from which to produce ethanol. Two crops that are better than corn for ethanol production are sugar cane and switchgrass. In Europe, surplus wine has been used as a feedstock for ethanol fuel. I wonder if sugar beets, which can grow in many more areas than sugar cane, would also be better than corn. If E85 usage took off in Europe and/or the US, better feedstocks and production methods would become available.
Random notes:
I believe that E85 ethanol contains 15% gasoline in other to fully denature the alcohol. I noticed that there are articles about E85 fires presenting some unique problems because it both floats on water and absorbs water. The selection of currently available vehicles that can run E85 is severely limited, and most of them are gas (or E85) guzzlers. It will be interesting to see how E85 competes with gasoline on price; whether it is compared by volume (litre or gallon) or the cost is compared based upon heat energy available.
There is another dynamic; high school age kids who either work after school and have access to their own money or have very generous allowances and can buy their own lunch and bring it to school.
I think that it might be interesting to have a study of four groups of high school kids:
Group One -- has the resources to buy what they want to for lunch and bring it to school
Group Two -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches, and their moms tell the school what they can buy for lunch
Group Three -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches and their moms don't tell the school what they can buy for lunch
Group Four -- doesn't have the resources to buy their own lunches and their moms pack their lunch
Groups Two and Three assume that school lunches are prepaid by the parents and/or the government
What is the difference in the nutrition in the lunches that the kids in these four groups actually consume?
Ten years after high school graduation, which group produced the healthiest adults?, the happiest adults?
"If the call center jobs get moved to the US,etc... will Indians complain about their jobs being outsourced?"
No, they will get H1B's.
I call bullshit. If my grocery store hassled me for buying a butane lighter or fruit I believe that I would find another store to buy them from. I recently bought a lighter similar to the one in the link from a local mega-drugstore and nobody asked for ID (they do require an ID to buy Sudafed). What's going to happen when the thousands of roadside fruitstands start selling bushels of peaches to anybody who has the cash to buy them?
Zango is adware that displays pop-up/pop-under advertisements
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http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx
Don't you have airconditioning in India?
All of the magnetic bracelets that I have seen are not intended to be stationary on the wrist, and unless they are too tight, they are free to move about on the wrist. The motion of the wrist is sufficient to power an automatic wristwatch and I would expect that the magnets in a magnetic bracelet, moving in relation to the wrist, could generate small electrical fields.
The water may be standing but it is not still.
More than one definition of the term "pushed" fits both products, and with both products the first one is always free.
A hotel's logo on the surface of the fountain in the lobby?