Within 5 miles of my house, and with flexibility to go home to meet the dryer repair guy or to the kid's soccer game. After all, I can work when the kid goes to bed or is in school.
Separate quarters for the ones who want to play fussball, etc. I don't want to be hit in the head with a frisbee when I go to the kitchen for coffee.
Bicycle parking, by which I mean a place to lock up my bike where it won't be wet and won't be at significant risk of theft or damage. (In front of the loading dock just doesn't cut it.)
Move me or don't move me between projects. I don't care. But don't make me change phone numbers every time I move.
Good! A little sanity in the midst of all the paranoia. I can live with giving the policeman my real name. The question remains, though, as to what is meant by identifying oneself. If I am the only Fred Smith living in Notlob and a policeman in Bolton demands that I identify myself, have I satisfied the requirement by telling him "I'm Fred Smith, of Notlob." Can he legally detain me while he authenticates my claim? That's what concerns me.
I second (or third, or Nth) the suggestion to do it behind a firewall. Most of the viruses, etc., that I've read about attack Windows via ports that aren't needed for HTTP or FTP, and there is no reason for most people to have Windows services ports open to the Internet. So get that router/firewall closed down to reject inbound connections and then open up only the ones you need. (Usually you can figure out what these are by looking at the router's firewall log.)
National Geographic chronicled an amazing story of a lightning strike, and rescue, on Grand Teton."
I wonder how long it's going to be before the GOP discovers the meaning of Grand Teton and puts a curtain over it, or renames it after the most recent late president.
Scuse me while I chuckle at yet another of the patent offices incompetant blunders.
They haven't blundered on this one yet. "Patent pending" just means it hasn't been patented yet. I am not sure it even means that the patent has been applied for. I could "invent" the wheel, and say "patent pending". Eventually the USPTO would tell me to take a hike because of prior art.
I seem to get spam from two sources. One is from someone/something that snagged my email address off my website, or who is doing some guessing, like sending to "info@mydomain.com". The other source of spam is clearly zombies, but it's not marketing stuff; rather, it's several flavors of viruses that all seem to have a payload, with messages that try to dupe me into opening the payload.
It's simple. Cells give you flexibility you can't have with landlines:
The capability to wipe out other motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians, while talking on the telephone. Try that one at home.
The ability to annoy your fellow transit riders as you discuss what you did last night or are planning to do on the coming weekend.
Your S.O. can call you when you're a block from home to find out when you'll be getting there.
Seriously, though, it's nice to have a cell (with vibrating ring) when we go out to the theater and have a sitter for the kid, or for letting the S.0. know that there's a transit or traffic delay that will prevent arrival in time for dinner, etc. But I'm one of those people who sees dollar signs when I talk on the cell, so few of my conversations go into the second minute.
Today's kids just don't know how easy they've got it. When I was a lad, we used a slide rule, and we liked it! My favorite moment in Apollo 13 was when one of the engineers was shown calculating the aborted moon mission's return on a slide rule.
But seriously, most of the population could get by just fine on a four-function calculator. The best use I have found for my RPN calculator is that my wife refuses to borrow it.
Yup! How the Irish saved civilization seemed to be totally lacking in footnotes, so that it felt like I was reading People Magazine, since I read it right after Richard Fletcher's The Barbarian Conversion. I hope he does better in this effort.
There's nothing that matters for nerds in this book or its review.
You're right! We owe nothing to the Greeks for the beginnings of logic, geometry, etc. We would most assuredly have invented computers without them and have no need to learn anything about ancient history.
Can someone pull up that quote from the Douglas Adams trilogy, something about a disk jockey urging the primate-like creatures on some backward planet to "Remember, the trick is to bang those rocks together!"?
Actually, this one looks to me like a legitimate patent, by which I mean, it wasn't some so-and-so patenting something that is patently obvious to anyone. Maybe using harmonics to generate a faster clock speed is obvious to you, but it struck me as clever -- not, "I'll patent the notion of one-click ordering" or "I'll patent the sun".
This is the same thing as what he said. x * 8 bits/sec = x bytes/sec. (I got the 'x' in the wrong place above, but whatever).
Actually, I think you got x in the wrong place here, too. Maybe:
x * 8 bytes/sec = y bits/sec
When one is talking about apples and oranges in algebra, it is customary to use different variables. I may have flunked second semester calculus every time I took it, but this much math I remember.
There's a Virginia company called Linkspot (http://www.linkspot.com) that is in the business of providing wireless access at campgrounds. Although they don't do satellite comm (that I know of), and they're geared toward long-term service with the campground, they might be able to work a deal with the campground you're using, assuming it's a private campground.
I believe that the "NX" feature is found on "Big Iron" processors, and has been for quite some time.
And not just on Big Iron. Data General Eclipse minicomputer systems had a multi-layer protection scheme that prevented the buffer overflow trick from working. For that matter, I dimly recall that a series of Motorola processors had a hardware-level set of privileged instructions, which, if the OS took advantage of them, would prevent viruses from doing anything beyond what the end user could do.
If I'm lost in the woods and am eaten by bears, then so be it. If I'm serious about not getting lost, then I'll take navigational equipment (like, for example, a compass) with me.
I can't see Verizon et al. allowing this on their network without some way of earning money from it, so I don't think it will mean cheaper service for consumers.
I hate to say it, but I actually feel some sympathy for the spammer. I understand the Can Spam Act requires spammers to stop sending if recipients tell them to stop, but how am I to know that a given spammer is under U.S. jurisdiction; therefore, I will not tell the spammer to stop, lest I confirm that my email address is valid.
The problem is that any law that allows people to send spam legitimizes the activity.
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Good! A little sanity in the midst of all the paranoia. I can live with giving the policeman my real name. The question remains, though, as to what is meant by identifying oneself. If I am the only Fred Smith living in Notlob and a policeman in Bolton demands that I identify myself, have I satisfied the requirement by telling him "I'm Fred Smith, of Notlob." Can he legally detain me while he authenticates my claim? That's what concerns me.
I second (or third, or Nth) the suggestion to do it behind a firewall. Most of the viruses, etc., that I've read about attack Windows via ports that aren't needed for HTTP or FTP, and there is no reason for most people to have Windows services ports open to the Internet. So get that router/firewall closed down to reject inbound connections and then open up only the ones you need. (Usually you can figure out what these are by looking at the router's firewall log.)
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desperate for entertainment will still be bored.That old crank-operated phone on my parents' wall is looking better and better.
National Geographic chronicled an amazing story of a lightning strike, and rescue, on Grand Teton."
I wonder how long it's going to be before the GOP discovers the meaning of Grand Teton and puts a curtain over it, or renames it after the most recent late president.
Scuse me while I chuckle at yet another of the patent offices incompetant blunders.
They haven't blundered on this one yet. "Patent pending" just means it hasn't been patented yet. I am not sure it even means that the patent has been applied for. I could "invent" the wheel, and say "patent pending". Eventually the USPTO would tell me to take a hike because of prior art.
French babe - not on this planet anyway.
It's obvious that you haven't seen any French babes, then.
I seem to get spam from two sources. One is from someone/something that snagged my email address off my website, or who is doing some guessing, like sending to "info@mydomain.com". The other source of spam is clearly zombies, but it's not marketing stuff; rather, it's several flavors of viruses that all seem to have a payload, with messages that try to dupe me into opening the payload.
It's simple. Cells give you flexibility you can't have with landlines:
Seriously, though, it's nice to have a cell (with vibrating ring) when we go out to the theater and have a sitter for the kid, or for letting the S.0. know that there's a transit or traffic delay that will prevent arrival in time for dinner, etc. But I'm one of those people who sees dollar signs when I talk on the cell, so few of my conversations go into the second minute.
Today's kids just don't know how easy they've got it. When I was a lad, we used a slide rule, and we liked it! My favorite moment in Apollo 13 was when one of the engineers was shown calculating the aborted moon mission's return on a slide rule.
But seriously, most of the population could get by just fine on a four-function calculator. The best use I have found for my RPN calculator is that my wife refuses to borrow it.
I thought mine was just leaking bits here and there.
... you won't have to worry about being mugged for it. The police will be watching far too closely.
There should be no confusion with this.
From Merriam-Webster Ninth New Collegiate Dictionarytreble adj. [ME, fr. MF, fr. L triplus -- more at TRIPLE]
Yup! How the Irish saved civilization seemed to be totally lacking in footnotes, so that it felt like I was reading People Magazine, since I read it right after Richard Fletcher's The Barbarian Conversion. I hope he does better in this effort.
There's nothing that matters for nerds in this book or its review.
You're right! We owe nothing to the Greeks for the beginnings of logic, geometry, etc. We would most assuredly have invented computers without them and have no need to learn anything about ancient history.
Can someone pull up that quote from the Douglas Adams trilogy, something about a disk jockey urging the primate-like creatures on some backward planet to "Remember, the trick is to bang those rocks together!"?
Actually, this one looks to me like a legitimate patent, by which I mean, it wasn't some so-and-so patenting something that is patently obvious to anyone. Maybe using harmonics to generate a faster clock speed is obvious to you, but it struck me as clever -- not, "I'll patent the notion of one-click ordering" or "I'll patent the sun".
This is the same thing as what he said. x * 8 bits/sec = x bytes/sec. (I got the 'x' in the wrong place above, but whatever).
Actually, I think you got x in the wrong place here, too. Maybe:
When one is talking about apples and oranges in algebra, it is customary to use different variables. I may have flunked second semester calculus every time I took it, but this much math I remember.
There's a Virginia company called Linkspot (http://www.linkspot.com) that is in the business of providing wireless access at campgrounds. Although they don't do satellite comm (that I know of), and they're geared toward long-term service with the campground, they might be able to work a deal with the campground you're using, assuming it's a private campground.
And not just on Big Iron. Data General Eclipse minicomputer systems had a multi-layer protection scheme that prevented the buffer overflow trick from working. For that matter, I dimly recall that a series of Motorola processors had a hardware-level set of privileged instructions, which, if the OS took advantage of them, would prevent viruses from doing anything beyond what the end user could do.
My eight-year-old had duped out that I was the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. So we are both disillusioned.
Somehow, though, I think that if Linus had copied all the code the guy claims he did, he'd have been unmasked by Slashdotters long ago.
If I'm lost in the woods and am eaten by bears, then so be it. If I'm serious about not getting lost, then I'll take navigational equipment (like, for example, a compass) with me.
I can't see Verizon et al. allowing this on their network without some way of earning money from it, so I don't think it will mean cheaper service for consumers.
I hate to say it, but I actually feel some sympathy for the spammer. I understand the Can Spam Act requires spammers to stop sending if recipients tell them to stop, but how am I to know that a given spammer is under U.S. jurisdiction; therefore, I will not tell the spammer to stop, lest I confirm that my email address is valid.
The problem is that any law that allows people to send spam legitimizes the activity.
Call 'em up and ask for more information. Maybe you'll get enough info on the Florida company to complain to the authorities in Florida.