You can easily view the data, parsed out, using an app like Boarding Pass Scanner (iOS).
You can use a generic barcode scanner as well, but it won't parse the fields properly.
The standard allows for a cryptographic signature, which can be validated so that you know the data isn't modified, but indeed, the data is not encrypted.
I would love to see these large airports replaced with multiple smaller airports. A larger percentage of the population would have an airport nearby, and average travel times would be reduced significantly. It seems to me that planners are optimizing for everything except your personal experience when they design and advocate for mega-airports.
There is a challenge with replacing all large airports with smaller ones, when using a hub and spoke model. If you have smaller airports, you have fewer destinations, and fewer connecting flight options.
NYC (DC, LA, SFO, Boston) as a gateway to the US from overseas makes some sense - lots of O/D traffic, and for those that want to continue onward, they can. I fly from my local smaller airport, which I love. And whenever I can, I use my smaller regional airport. But it doesn't always reduce travel time - it often increases it due to the need to connect for most destinations. In fact, it'll be faster for me to drive to JFK (two+ hours) for an upcoming trip to eliminate a nearly three hour flight and one hour connection - in the "wrong" direction.
When I did corporate benefits enrollment last year, we had a tool called "Alex," which was also created by Jellyvision. Brought back great memories of YDKJ.
self-driving cars using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2I) crash-avoidance technologies
I only have a passing knowledge of the space, but my understanding is that V2I is vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and V2V is vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
You can also install the Crashplan client on a device like a ReadyNAS - which would run 24x7 and not require their computer to be on. Offer to host one for your neighbor in your basement as well.
Bonus points for figuring out how to route between your house and your neighbor's without going to the Internet provider and back - point-point WiFi and a nice router?
I have a three-way backup scheme going, with our home computer and my parents' and in-laws'. We live close enough that if a catastrophic data loss occurred on one machine, it would be fairly easy to sneakernet over one of the backups, but far enough away that it would take a very significant event to affect all our backups.
Disney uses induction charging in (at least) three attractions - Ellen's Energy Adventure (formerly Universe of Energy) at Epcot, and two at Disney's Hollywood Studios - Great Movie Ride and Tower of Terror. (I imagine other Towers of Terror use the same technology, but I'm not familiar with them)
For power, each vehicle carries eight automotive batteries. Of course, these batteries need to be recharged frequently so within the attraction’s two turntables are “charging plates” that contain electromagnets. The magnets work in conjunction with onboard magnets that create an electric current that is transferred to the vehicle’s batteries. No actual physical connection is made between the charging plates in the floor and the onboard magnets. This technology, although improved, can also be seen on the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
The backscatter machines were pulled three weeks ago from New York's LaGuardia and JFK, Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles, Boston, Charlotte and Orlando airports. The move was designed to speed up security lines at checkpoints there.
Sanders said it's worked and that lines at those airports are now moving 180,000 more passengers each day.
I find this confusing. Were the TSA lines the gating factor in keeping 180,000 passengers from flying each day? According to A4A, 2.4 Million Passengers will fly on 11/25/2012. 180,000 passengers is 7.5% of that figure. An average travel day in the US looks to be roughly 1.8 million passengers. 180,000 is 10% of that figure.
What did those 180,000 people do? Wait in line until it closed/they missed their flight, then try again another day? Decide not to fly?
Just a small nitpick (the error is in the article too).. It's Dartmouth College, not Dartmouth University... ( Those that love Dartmouth will be quick to point this out.. It stems from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward )
I subscribe to U-Verse and so I went to see how far off they were with my usage.
The U-verse data measurement report is currently under construction. When completed, you will be notified if your usage exceeds the allowance. Until that time, U-verse customers should not be concerned about their usage patterns for billing purposes.
Wouldn't it be nice to get enough notice to evaluate if AT&T's product meets my needs? Alas, my router tells me I've used 230 GB over the last month; that's pretty close to their 250GB limit, and if the numbers are 'fuzzy' then all bets are off.
Because U-Verse TV service is IP-delivered, I'd like assurances that they're not including this traffic in any metering - I'm already paying for this content and its delivery on the 'TV' portion of my bill.
but there's less problems with people not putting the paper tickets in gates correctly
Granted, the magstripe (or bar code) reader could be designed to accept the ticket in any of the four ways it fits in (like Disney's turnstiles, for example).
Dartmouth's Blitzmail system included a similar mechanisms (which was finally retired in the past couple years)
Email on Paper
Even at Dartmouth some people do not have personal computers or for other reasons do not receive email electronically. But everyone can receive conventional printed mail through campus mailboxes, called "Himnam boxes" after the name of the campus post office.
Once again the Dartmouth Name Directory is the key to reaching these people since everyone has an entry in the DND - even non-computer users - and one field of that entry is the person's Hinman box number. We created a special domain, Hinman.dartmouth.edu to address hinman boxes. If the person cannot receive email electronically (or chooses not to), their DND preferred email address can be set to name@hinman.dartmouth.edu. On the mail hub, sendmail directs messages for the hinman domain to a special program that formats email messages appropriately for sending through the hinman mail system. The resulting messages are printed several times a day, folded, and given to the Hinman post office for delivery, usually within 24 hours.
It was quite a useful tool; you could use it to send a mail to yourself@hinman to print out simple notes, and you could pick it up at your mail box instead of the main campus printers.
Was going to post this one as well. Interestingly, the Croton-Harmon train station and Metro-North Commuter Railroad yards a bit further south are also blurred.
Don't forget in addition to all the end-device equipment (cameras, record/playout devices, editing seats, production switchers), and the transmission gear, there's a lot of infrastructure costs.
Distribution Amplifiers (to 'split' a signal) must be upgraded. Cable often needs to be upgraded. Even the jackfields (patch bays) may need upgrading. You're talking about moving from a 270Mb/s signal (SD-SDI) to HD-SDI which is 1.485 or so Gb/s. This requires better cable, and often shorter runs.
The 25% number sounds accurate to me, when dealing with cost of HD over SD for new equipment (in my opinion, it makes little sense to buy SD now, when it is a relatively small incremental cost to go HD - even if you're only doing SD for now). But if you have fully functioning SD equipment, you need to buy all new HD gear, which could up the cost of equipment from practically ni to rather high levels.
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You can easily view the data, parsed out, using an app like Boarding Pass Scanner (iOS). You can use a generic barcode scanner as well, but it won't parse the fields properly. The standard allows for a cryptographic signature, which can be validated so that you know the data isn't modified, but indeed, the data is not encrypted.
I would love to see these large airports replaced with multiple smaller airports. A larger percentage of the population would have an airport nearby, and average travel times would be reduced significantly. It seems to me that planners are optimizing for everything except your personal experience when they design and advocate for mega-airports.
There is a challenge with replacing all large airports with smaller ones, when using a hub and spoke model. If you have smaller airports, you have fewer destinations, and fewer connecting flight options. NYC (DC, LA, SFO, Boston) as a gateway to the US from overseas makes some sense - lots of O/D traffic, and for those that want to continue onward, they can. I fly from my local smaller airport, which I love. And whenever I can, I use my smaller regional airport. But it doesn't always reduce travel time - it often increases it due to the need to connect for most destinations. In fact, it'll be faster for me to drive to JFK (two+ hours) for an upcoming trip to eliminate a nearly three hour flight and one hour connection - in the "wrong" direction.
When I did corporate benefits enrollment last year, we had a tool called "Alex," which was also created by Jellyvision. Brought back great memories of YDKJ.
self-driving cars using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2I) crash-avoidance technologies
I only have a passing knowledge of the space, but my understanding is that V2I is vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and V2V is vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
There is a magnetic pouring system (though the theory of operation is quite different). Never seen one in person, though. Bottoms Up Beer
A good read from the folks at mailchimp: http://mailchimp.com/resources... There are a couple sections that might be of use.
You can also install the Crashplan client on a device like a ReadyNAS - which would run 24x7 and not require their computer to be on. Offer to host one for your neighbor in your basement as well.
Bonus points for figuring out how to route between your house and your neighbor's without going to the Internet provider and back - point-point WiFi and a nice router?
I have a three-way backup scheme going, with our home computer and my parents' and in-laws'. We live close enough that if a catastrophic data loss occurred on one machine, it would be fairly easy to sneakernet over one of the backups, but far enough away that it would take a very significant event to affect all our backups.
Watching the animated .gif on the wiki though, the dialogue really has a Waiting For Godot feel about it.
I had the exact same reaction, FWIW.
Ref: http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2010/10/universe_of_energy_1.html
The backscatter machines were pulled three weeks ago from New York's LaGuardia and JFK, Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles, Boston, Charlotte and Orlando airports. The move was designed to speed up security lines at checkpoints there.
Sanders said it's worked and that lines at those airports are now moving 180,000 more passengers each day.
I find this confusing. Were the TSA lines the gating factor in keeping 180,000 passengers from flying each day? According to A4A, 2.4 Million Passengers will fly on 11/25/2012. 180,000 passengers is 7.5% of that figure. An average travel day in the US looks to be roughly 1.8 million passengers. 180,000 is 10% of that figure.
What did those 180,000 people do? Wait in line until it closed/they missed their flight, then try again another day? Decide not to fly?
Or not, if these companies go out of business, which is extremely likely to happen in the next few decades or centuries.
or years. or months.
Just a small nitpick (the error is in the article too).. It's Dartmouth College, not Dartmouth University... ( Those that love Dartmouth will be quick to point this out.. It stems from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward )
As if the government needs your password to get that access
[Can't] we have this [in real life] too? was how I micro-edited your comment.
The U-verse data measurement report is currently under construction. When completed, you will be notified if your usage exceeds the allowance. Until that time, U-verse customers should not be concerned about their usage patterns for billing purposes.
Wouldn't it be nice to get enough notice to evaluate if AT&T's product meets my needs? Alas, my router tells me I've used 230 GB over the last month; that's pretty close to their 250GB limit, and if the numbers are 'fuzzy' then all bets are off.
Because U-Verse TV service is IP-delivered, I'd like assurances that they're not including this traffic in any metering - I'm already paying for this content and its delivery on the 'TV' portion of my bill.
Would it pick the route with the fewest left turns? (in countries that drive on the right, at least)
Just wondering why you didn't use the map search or google itself on your iPhone...
Has SP technologies even tried out an iPhone? Their claim is for an immutable keyboard. I can make the keyboard on an iPhone disappear quite easily...
Sounds like a sharpie might be useful...
It was quite a useful tool; you could use it to send a mail to yourself@hinman to print out simple notes, and you could pick it up at your mail box instead of the main campus printers.
Was going to post this one as well. Interestingly, the Croton-Harmon train station and Metro-North Commuter Railroad yards a bit further south are also blurred.
Having used the AG, I'd suggest giving it a look. Truthfully, though, iChat's a good place to look, too.
Yeah, except that ad space on the OTA weather sub-channel probably goes for significantly less than a local spot during Lost or an NFL game...
Don't forget in addition to all the end-device equipment (cameras, record/playout devices, editing seats, production switchers), and the transmission gear, there's a lot of infrastructure costs.
Distribution Amplifiers (to 'split' a signal) must be upgraded. Cable often needs to be upgraded. Even the jackfields (patch bays) may need upgrading. You're talking about moving from a 270Mb/s signal (SD-SDI) to HD-SDI which is 1.485 or so Gb/s. This requires better cable, and often shorter runs.
The 25% number sounds accurate to me, when dealing with cost of HD over SD for new equipment (in my opinion, it makes little sense to buy SD now, when it is a relatively small incremental cost to go HD - even if you're only doing SD for now). But if you have fully functioning SD equipment, you need to buy all new HD gear, which could up the cost of equipment from practically ni to rather high levels.