content gets updated some stuff gets dropped,what can i say. I looked for that stat too, and I did say I couldnt find a source for the stat. but i do remember reading it last year. Having a relatively high IQ and low income does mean some things stick in your mind longer than others.
Are these attempted connects with these sites motivated by attempting to access child porn or attempts to access other types of obscure and generally unaceptable types of porn. As some porn seems to be seen as acceptable and laddish other forms get you seen as some sick deviant.
seems to me if someone is going to supply kiddy porn they will be willing to supply any other type of porn as well as long as they get paid for it.
could it be that BT is blocking these sites on a purely commercial basis, if a significant part of your user base is attempting to access these sites and if by doing so your users get procecuted, start doing time and stop using your service it will affect your profits.
In fact as a bt broadband customer can you feel reassured now that there will be no nudge nudge " do you see how much time he spends on line, he can't just be reading slashdot stories..". So "sign up for BT where being online on a regular basis doesn't make you appear to be a sick pervert".
I think blocking is wrong, simply because your restricting the opportunity to arrest and charge these potentially very dangerous individuals. Which is preferable to society and parents and children, a known paedophile that is monitored, treated or if Bt's figures are to believed a huge number of unknown paedophiles. Given the choice of catching paedophiles looking at child porn sites or catching paedophiles after they have carried out their sick fantasy on a child which is preferable.
For BT to block these sites it makes commercial sense, however I think society and the children who get abused are going to pay for BT's profits. It's not possible to procecute someone for thinking about doing something. Only by stepping over the line can you actually be procecuted for doing something.
Perhaps the reality is that men do not fancy fat saggy old women (in general) their ideal sexual partner will always have a great body and be aged around 20, but men's bodys go down hill to and these women just will not be interested in them and extremely wary if they get too close. maybe the paedophile acknowledging this gravitates to children who are blissfully unaware of the attraction of unspoilt flesh, unlike the typical woman in her 20's and probably younger who realises that men want to fuck em, whatever the age of the man.
While we have our sophisticated minds, we still have biological urges to reproduce and for men the age for reproduction doesn't have a biological finish date, for women there is an ideal age range and this is the age range most men are attracted to.
Fortunately for society, there is a counter balance in love and the social conditioning we are brought up with and a respect for the partners we choose to share our life with or things would be much worse, I think love and understanding is what we all really crave and providing we have that, then we are likely to stick with the person we decided to get old with even though on a hot summers day we will still be tempted.
changing the API to break things, your so right it doesn't need to be this way. The Amiga (Rip) had a handle on this with Libarys (pretty much dll files). An individual libary would have updates but non of the original functionality was lost, if you required a function that was added in 1.2 of a libray then 1.2 or newer was the library version required. The amiga os was pretty decent, it is such a shame there was no way to take it forward, maybe linux is the natural successor for an amiga Os fan. but the complexity is very off putting.
Americans shouldn't worry about IQ if last years beat the nation IQ test in the uk results bare out for the USA.
The most interesting statistic was the one that compared IQ with income and surprisingly the highest Incomes were associated with the lowest IQ's (with the top earners with IQ's around 94) and the highest IQ's associated with the lowest incomes.
so you may be a lot smarter than your boss but he still makes way more than do. can't find the stats for income on this years test but if you want to have a go...
yes a maintainance fee for copyright / patent is a great idea. It doesn't have to be high but should be renewed anually and allow a grace period of say 5 years of non payment and the copyright / patent would expire and it would enter the public domain.
copyright should be transferable but grant a royalty back to the original copyright holder (or their creditors).
there are several benefits to this model.
1)maintain traceable ownership no more orphan works.
2)all valuble copyrights can be maintained as long as the annual fee gets paid once this becomes uneconomic then it becomes part of humanity's heritage.
3) with the grace period copyright can be reinstated if the person/ company that let the copyright slip suddenly finds his idea being commercially exploited.
4)by giving a royalty back to the originator even if big buck corperation see's potential in your idea and gives you a relatively small fee for rights if they then go on to make millions of your idea you still benefit and if you go bust owing millions your creditors still get back some of the money they invested in you.
People have very short memorys. we had computers before we had the internet and we had plenty of file sharing networks
how did files get shared before the internet? By warez traders , hacking groups ect; distributing cd's people would travel between citys and swop disks full of dms files they would be passed out to friends who passed them to more friends.
File sharing is pretty much like sex, you sleep with someone who sleeps with someone else who sleeps with someone else and there you have exponential growth. when you sleep with someone new think of how many sexual encounters you are linking in with, it doesn't take long before any release ends up shared with 100's of thousands, millions if not billions.
heck hash, grass is just the same,except maybe easier to get hold of. you can bitch about it, legislate against it, even educate about it but one things certain your not ever going to stop it. and for those that can't get it for free, you can even pay for it.
maybe those corperate execs think they losing excusive pimp rights, but everything gets shared, in fact file sharing networks are breeding grounds for new talent, think about it if they sit in their cubicles rubbing thier grubby hands as new age voyeurs on the p2p networks, maybe they might see an unsigned band or two with tracks being shared amongst the networks users, see the profit and take them into their stable and sell them like the whores on 5th avenue.
so thinking about this if an rfid is implanted in a tyre or other car part or maybe an item of clothing it would be possible to design a smart bomb that would only blow when a particular Rf tag (person) came into range.
or how about an rftag smart minefield. say each us serviceman has an rf tag on his dog tag then a mine field could be laid which would be inhibited by the presence of the rf tag and totally lethal to the enemy whoever that might be. or conversely triggered. of course the mines could be rf tagged as well so you can collect them up later.
How would it work implanted or not to track down a missing child taken by some pedo or such like, don't they have a range of around 1 meter. unless your pedo takes them into walmart or somewhere its quite unlikely that the RF Tag would be triggered.
however, if you want to see which children are failing to attend school or skipped out/ or classes later in the day then it might be useful.
hotmail is bringing in bigger email accounts, in the next 2 weeks according to an email dated 5th of july from hotmailstaff. 250 meg storage and a 10 meg message size which will be nice. now if they would make it useable with something else other than outlook...
Firefox is great but not simple once you start adding in extensions it becomes very feature rich it all depends on how you use it.
locating good extensions is a pain it would be nice to get them all in one place and rated by users.
my favourite extension is Linky which allows you to highlight text on a page and open the links highlighted in tabs. gestures also get my vote although i only remember a few of them.
I have just found an extension
linky.
this allows you to highlight some text and open the links in new tabs amongst other things. Ideal I would have thought
I use advanced mouse gestures in FireFox I have configured a Capital B shape (for bigger) to increase Text size. I vary the distance I view my monitor from a couple of feet to a couple of meters so changing the default size isn't always usefull.
perhaps Text to voice could be useful as a right click option.
One for slashdot or possibly the browser collect the links together from articles and the comments. with the browser a rightclick popup window with the links listed and possibly tested for validity and a visual indication of when they change site.
A recent article gave a link to a scam banking site. most of the links were invalid. If any links on a banking site were invalid or moved to a different domain a warning would be very useful that the page might be a scam.
how about this for a useful feature. User highlights a block of text containing links right clicks and chooses open links in tabs and to make it really sweet doesn't open duplicate links. surely this is am easy one to do. Please tell me where i can download the plug in:)
mass remains constant, weightless is not the same as massless IANAP (I am not a physicist) The force to move something is proportional to its mass and velocity. think about it if say a mass with an equivilent weight on earth of two tons in space was closing on another similar 2 ton object and you were between them do you think your not going to go splat?
wouldnt it be more useful if you could goto someone elses PC and use packages you don't have from anywhere. obviously i mean with consent sort of a public library of CPU time and software.
need word for a couple of hours just login at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx there are a lot of possibilitys for this kind computing. ok privacy might be an issue but there are a lot of times when you just dont care and 5 minutes of connection with a fast computer or an advanced program could save you days if not weeks struggling with your home system.
"I've had a hard time convincing people that you can only install Office on one computer (unless you buy a site lisence or something)"
Ok lets look at this simply I have 4 PC's at home and each one is used by me pretty much exclusively. I could install office on one pc use it uninstall it get the disks out reinstall it on another use it uninstall it... or I could just have it on 1 Pc and not bother with the others and in theory use it 24/7 so what is so bad about that. so far each time i am only using the program on a single machine at a time. how about I let my wife use it am i still legal here. yes i think so. now what about this install uninstall routine I could do this every time but why should I bother?
A better scheme might be to install on one pc and then just link to the one installed copy. well how about I go one step further and make my copy available to me over the internet. Still I am using one copy I bought and paid for and have the right to use 24/7 don't I? Can my wife still use it as long as I am not using it sure. How about you my friend in america I am sleeping for the next 8 hours so sure go ahead use my copy just let me have it back when your finished with it.
actually what I could do is leave the installation cd in a cd drive and install uninstall with that to various machines on my network or even better copy the installation to a directory on a harddrive somewhere. in fact why should it just be my network cant i use the net to give me access to my licienced copy of office without me carrying with me the installation cd's.
Of course there is shared computing remotely running software from another Pc problem is with windows the registry really makes life difficult for me to access my copy where ever I am (unless I use realVnc of course in which case I can operate my pc from anywhere).
Linux on the otherhand has X-windows which seperates the UI from the physical machine running the program. so i can log on to my linux box from anywhere and run what I like. in fact you could run my applications on my pc too. if i gave you an address and a username; or am I now infringing on amd or intel because my cpu isn't doing nop's for most of the time.
so how about the physical world I borrowed Xmen on dvd from my sister she paid for it I watched it the other night ( sad I know) and gave her it back the next day was that copyright infringement. or how about the book i lent to a friend instead of letting it gather dust on the shelf.
When it comes to my BMW maybe i am a little less generous but then there is the question of wear and tear, maybe it will get in an accident and come back wrecked be devalued by the high mileage. Software doesnt have these problems maybe books do to an extent. (how many authors are complaining because thier books are sat on a shelf in a public libary). Music Video Programs its all software it doesnt wear out have a limited number of times you use it (unless its limited shareware).
Back in the days when harddrives were rare we had to run our programs from floppy disks and we would carry them round from one place to another in fact we still do to a certain extent, don't gamers do this with thier games take them with them to play with friends.
you see in reality we have always shared, problem was getting stuff back but now we have the internet and transit times are trivial.
Trouble is right now we have major security problems with our holy os windows I cant give you access to my bought and paid for copy of word without giving you access to everything else or giving him the opportunity to vandalise my systems. Linux goes a long way to providing me with the security and freedom to allow you to use my Pc anytime night or day. I guess it happens already with windows and the spambot relays. But sharing can be done in a positive way. It is already happening with data on websites. Some websites will let you run tools for manipulating gifs for instance. Then there are things like the seti at h
I have adaptecs videoh usb2.0 system the record quality is pretty good even has a remote which will start the software running.
There are issues though I have never set it up to record anything while i havent been there to start and stop it. perhaps what is needed is something like videoplus where you scan a barcode or enter the number for a particular program and it sets itself up to record; that would make it user friendly. The other thing is it doesnt allow you to reencode using the hardware or support teletext. as an editing station and for producing dvd's my pc does a fine job.
As a living room device might as well forget it. I can use it for TV watching films in my bedroom but i prefer my big tv and Dvd player for the living room.
I do tech support for an internet cafe one day I came in to find the owner had reached behind one of the Pc's to "switch it off" and switched the psu from 230V to 110V.
The 2nd incident happened at a sewage works; these places are run by PLC's and this one was in the process of getting new panels and controls. Part of the process in processing sewage involves blowing air through the sewage to remove suspended particles in what is known as a grit basin, these are roughly the size of a swimming pool and about 4 stories deep; each has a gate at each end which is driven shut by the plc and will raise when the plc removes the signal (or power fails). Any way one of these basins had been shut off and emptied and scaffolding errected inside while some servicing work was going on.
well I had new code for the plc controlling the basins and I knew that putting the PLC in program mode would remove the signal driving the gates shut; (basically it would take 30 secs to upload and restart). I mentioned this to a fellow engineer asking him if the gates were isolated and locked off (standard procedure you would think). He said yes so i connected up my laptop got online with the plc and switched to program mode; when i heard a yell coming from the vicinity of the grit basins, so i quickly switched it back to run. Turns out the gates were not isolated, and when the 12volt signal driving the gate shut was removed the gates started opening; which was kinda unlucky for the guy stood on the scaffolding at the time...
Incidently sewage deoxygenates the water (which kills fish) and blowing air reoxygenates it before it goes into the river...
So its ok to ship windows and solaris... but just a minute when did The good ole US of A get control of linux? Erm it hasn't
maybe an american giving iraqi's linux distributions might get an american in trouble. but I don't think that would apply to the rest of the world would it.
Is it just me but does the USA have a tendency to say F*ck you we own the planet.
If something is given away freely to all, such as linux, then that is the way it is. If you want me to obey American laws and American directives then give me american citizenship.
Slashdot Mirror
content gets updated some stuff gets dropped,what can i say. I looked for that stat too, and I did say I couldnt find a source for the stat. but i do remember reading it last year.
Having a relatively high IQ and low income does mean some things stick in your mind longer than others.
Are these attempted connects with these sites motivated by attempting to access child porn or attempts to access other types of obscure and generally unaceptable types of porn. As some porn seems to be seen as acceptable and laddish other forms get you seen as some sick deviant.
seems to me if someone is going to supply kiddy porn they will be willing to supply any other type of porn as well as long as they get paid for it.
could it be that BT is blocking these sites on a purely commercial basis, if a significant part of your user base is attempting to access these sites and if by doing so your users get procecuted, start doing time and stop using your service it will affect your profits.
In fact as a bt broadband customer can you feel reassured now that there will be no nudge nudge " do you see how much time he spends on line, he can't just be reading slashdot stories..". So "sign up for BT where being online on a regular basis doesn't make you appear to be a sick pervert".
I think blocking is wrong, simply because your restricting the opportunity to arrest and charge these potentially very dangerous individuals. Which is preferable to society and parents and children, a known paedophile that is monitored, treated or if Bt's figures are to believed a huge number of unknown paedophiles.
Given the choice of catching paedophiles looking at child porn sites or catching paedophiles after they have carried out their sick fantasy on a child which is preferable.
For BT to block these sites it makes commercial sense, however I think society and the children who get abused are going to pay for BT's profits. It's not possible to procecute someone for thinking about doing something. Only by stepping over the line can you actually be procecuted for doing something.
Perhaps the reality is that men do not fancy fat saggy old women (in general) their ideal sexual partner will always have a great body and be aged around 20, but men's bodys go down hill to and these women just will not be interested in them and extremely wary if they get too close. maybe the paedophile acknowledging this gravitates to children who are blissfully unaware of the attraction of unspoilt flesh, unlike the typical woman in her 20's and probably younger who realises that men want to fuck em, whatever the age of the man.
While we have our sophisticated minds, we still have biological urges to reproduce and for men the age for reproduction doesn't have a biological finish date, for women there is an ideal age range and this is the age range most men are attracted to.
Fortunately for society, there is a counter balance in love and the social conditioning we are brought up with and a respect for the partners we choose to share our life with or things would be much worse, I think love and understanding is what we all really crave and providing we have that, then we are likely to stick with the person we decided to get old with even though on a hot summers day we will still be tempted.
we get old accept it.
changing the API to break things, your so right it doesn't need to be this way. The Amiga (Rip) had a handle on this with Libarys (pretty much dll files). An individual libary would have updates but non of the original functionality was lost, if you required a function that was added in 1.2 of a libray then 1.2 or newer was the library version required.
The amiga os was pretty decent, it is such a shame there was no way to take it forward, maybe linux is the natural successor for an amiga Os fan. but the complexity is very off putting.
Americans shouldn't worry about IQ if last years beat the nation IQ test in the uk
results bare out for the USA.
The most interesting statistic was the one that compared IQ with income and surprisingly the highest Incomes were associated with the lowest IQ's (with the top earners with IQ's around 94) and the highest IQ's associated with the lowest incomes.
so you may be a lot smarter than your boss but he still makes way more than do.
can't find the stats for income on this years test but if you want to have a go...
test
I guess it explains GW Bush.
yes a maintainance fee for copyright / patent is a great idea.
It doesn't have to be high but should be renewed anually and allow a grace period of say 5 years of non payment and the copyright / patent would expire and it would enter the public domain.
copyright should be transferable but grant a royalty back to the original copyright holder (or their creditors).
there are several benefits to this model.
1)maintain traceable ownership no more orphan works.
2)all valuble copyrights can be maintained as long as the annual fee gets paid
once this becomes uneconomic then it becomes part of humanity's heritage.
3) with the grace period copyright can be reinstated if the person/ company that let the copyright slip suddenly finds his idea being commercially exploited.
4)by giving a royalty back to the originator even if big buck corperation see's potential in your idea and gives you a relatively small fee for rights if they then go on to make millions of your idea you still benefit and if you go bust owing millions your creditors still get back some of the money they invested in you.
This is stating the obvious but there is now no link to take you forward or back one article at the top of the comments.
I guess this will be fixed but while its being fixed how about giving the same link at the bottom of the page too.
People have very short memorys.
we had computers before we had the internet and we had plenty of file sharing networks
how did files get shared before the internet? By warez traders , hacking groups ect; distributing cd's
people would travel between citys and swop disks full of dms files they would be passed out to friends who passed them to more friends.
File sharing is pretty much like sex, you sleep with someone who sleeps with someone else who sleeps with someone else and there you have exponential growth.
when you sleep with someone new think of how many sexual encounters you are linking in with, it doesn't take long before any release ends up shared with 100's of thousands, millions if not billions.
heck hash, grass is just the same,except maybe easier to get hold of.
you can bitch about it, legislate against it, even educate about it
but one things certain your not ever going to stop it.
and for those that can't get it for free, you can even pay for it.
maybe those corperate execs think they losing excusive pimp rights, but everything gets shared, in fact file sharing networks are breeding grounds for new talent, think about it if they sit in their cubicles rubbing thier grubby hands as new age voyeurs on the p2p networks, maybe they might see an unsigned band or two with tracks being shared amongst the networks users, see the profit and take them into their stable and sell them like the whores on 5th avenue.
so thinking about this if an rfid is implanted in a tyre or other car part or maybe an item of clothing it would be possible to design a smart bomb that would only blow when a particular Rf tag (person) came into range.
or how about an rftag smart minefield.
say each us serviceman has an rf tag on his dog tag then a mine field could be laid which would be inhibited by the presence of the rf tag and totally lethal to the enemy whoever that might be.
or conversely triggered. of course the mines could be rf tagged as well so you can collect them up later.
How would it work implanted or not to track down a missing child taken by some pedo or such like, don't they have a range of around 1 meter. unless your pedo takes them into walmart or somewhere its quite unlikely that the RF Tag would be triggered.
however, if you want to see which children are failing to attend school or skipped out/ or classes later in the day then it might be useful.
hotmail is bringing in bigger email accounts, in the next 2 weeks according to an email dated 5th of july from hotmailstaff. 250 meg storage and a 10 meg message size which will be nice. now if they would make it useable with something else other than outlook...
I think that update at mozilla has 97 extensions listed I seem to remember seeing 195 listed somewhere else.
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html?ver=2.1.0 is for linky not on the update site and pretty useful for example
Firefox is great but not simple
once you start adding in extensions it becomes very feature rich it all depends on how you use it.
locating good extensions is a pain it would be nice to get them all in one place and rated by users.
my favourite extension is Linky which allows you to highlight text on a page and open the links highlighted in tabs.
gestures also get my vote although i only remember a few of them.
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/linky.html does the job
I have just found an extension linky. this allows you to highlight some text and open the links in new tabs amongst other things. Ideal I would have thought
I use advanced mouse gestures in FireFox I have configured a Capital B shape (for bigger) to increase Text size. I vary the distance I view my monitor from a couple of feet to a couple of meters so changing the default size isn't always usefull.
perhaps Text to voice could be useful as a right click option.
One for slashdot or possibly the browser collect the links together from articles and the comments. with the browser a rightclick popup window with the links listed and possibly tested for validity and a visual indication of when they change site.
A recent article gave a link to a scam banking site. most of the links were invalid. If any links on a banking site were invalid or moved to a different domain a warning would be very useful that the page might be a scam.
how about this for a useful feature. :)
User highlights a block of text containing links right clicks and chooses open links in tabs and to make it really sweet doesn't open duplicate links.
surely this is am easy one to do.
Please tell me where i can download the plug in
mass remains constant, weightless is not the same as massless IANAP (I am not a physicist)
The force to move something is proportional to its mass and velocity. think about it if say a mass with an equivilent weight on earth of two tons in space was closing on another similar 2 ton object and you were between them do you think your not going to go splat?
wouldnt it be more useful if you could goto someone elses PC and use packages you don't have from anywhere. obviously i mean with consent sort of a public library of CPU time and software.
need word for a couple of hours just login at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx there are a lot of possibilitys for this kind computing. ok privacy might be an issue but there are a lot of times when you just dont care and 5 minutes of connection with a fast computer or an advanced program could save you days if not weeks struggling with your home system.
"I've had a hard time convincing people that you can only install Office on one computer (unless you buy a site lisence or something)"
... or I could just have it on 1 Pc and not bother with the others and in theory use it 24/7 so what is so bad about that. so far each time i am only using the program on a single machine at a time. how about I let my wife use it am i still legal here.
Ok lets look at this simply I have 4 PC's at home and each one is used by me pretty much exclusively. I could install office on one pc use it uninstall it get the disks out reinstall it on another use it uninstall it
yes i think so. now what about this install uninstall routine I could do this every time but why should I bother?
A better scheme might be to install on one pc and then just link to the one installed copy. well how about I go one step further and make my copy available to me over the internet. Still I am using one copy I bought and paid for and have the right to use 24/7 don't I? Can my wife still use it as long as I am not using it sure. How about you my friend in america I am sleeping for the next 8 hours so sure go ahead use my copy just let me have it back when your finished with it.
actually what I could do is leave the installation cd in a cd drive and install uninstall with that to various machines on my network or even better copy the installation to a directory on a harddrive somewhere. in fact why should it just be my network cant i use the net to give me access to my licienced copy of office without me carrying with me the installation cd's.
Of course there is shared computing remotely running software from another Pc problem is with windows the registry really makes life difficult for me to access my copy where ever I am (unless I use realVnc of course in which case I can operate my pc from anywhere).
Linux on the otherhand has X-windows which seperates the UI from the physical machine running the program. so i can log on to my linux box from anywhere and run what I like. in fact you could run my applications on my pc too. if i gave you an address and a username; or am I now infringing on amd or intel because my cpu isn't doing nop's for most of the time.
so how about the physical world I borrowed Xmen on dvd from my sister she paid for it I watched it the other night ( sad I know) and gave her it back the next day was that copyright infringement. or how about the book i lent to a friend instead of letting it gather dust on the shelf.
When it comes to my BMW maybe i am a little less generous but then there is the question of wear and tear, maybe it will get in an accident and come back wrecked be devalued by the high mileage. Software doesnt have these problems maybe books do to an extent. (how many authors are complaining because thier books are sat on a shelf in a public libary). Music Video Programs its all software it doesnt wear out have a limited number of times you use it (unless its limited shareware).
Back in the days when harddrives were rare we had to run our programs from floppy disks and we would carry them round from one place to another in fact we still do to a certain extent, don't gamers do this with thier games take them with them to play with friends.
you see in reality we have always shared, problem was getting stuff back but now we have the internet and transit times are trivial.
Trouble is right now we have major security problems with our holy os windows I cant give you access to my bought and paid for copy of word without giving you access to everything else or giving him the opportunity to vandalise my systems.
Linux goes a long way to providing me with the security and freedom to allow you to use my Pc anytime night or day. I guess it happens already with windows and the spambot relays. But sharing can be done in a positive way. It is already happening with data on websites. Some websites will let you run tools for manipulating gifs for instance. Then there are things like the seti at h
I have adaptecs videoh usb2.0 system the record quality is pretty good even has a remote which will start the software running.
There are issues though I have never set it up to record anything while i havent been there to start and stop it. perhaps what is needed is something like videoplus where you scan a barcode or enter the number for a particular program and it sets itself up to record; that would make it user friendly. The other thing is it doesnt allow you to reencode using the hardware or support teletext. as an editing station and for producing dvd's my pc does a fine job.
As a living room device might as well forget it. I can use it for TV watching films in my bedroom but i prefer my big tv and Dvd player for the living room.
I do tech support for an internet cafe one day I came in to find the owner had reached behind one of the Pc's to "switch it off" and switched the psu from 230V to 110V.
...
The 2nd incident happened at a sewage works; these places are run by PLC's and this one was in the process of getting new panels and controls.
Part of the process in processing sewage involves blowing air through the sewage to remove suspended particles in what is known as a grit basin, these are roughly the size of a swimming pool and about 4 stories deep; each has a gate at each end which is driven shut by the plc and will raise when the plc removes the signal (or power fails). Any way one of these basins had been shut off and emptied and scaffolding errected inside while some servicing work was going on.
well I had new code for the plc controlling the basins and I knew that putting the PLC in program mode would remove the signal driving the gates shut; (basically it would take 30 secs to upload and restart). I mentioned this to a fellow engineer asking him if the gates were isolated and locked off (standard procedure you would think). He said yes so i connected up my laptop got online with the plc and switched to program mode; when i heard a yell coming from the vicinity of the grit basins, so i quickly switched it back to run.
Turns out the gates were not isolated, and when the 12volt signal driving the gate shut was removed the gates started opening; which was kinda unlucky for the guy stood on the scaffolding at the time
Incidently sewage deoxygenates the water (which kills fish) and blowing air reoxygenates it before it goes into the river...
I am going to download firefox.91 in a minute to see if it is fixed.
However I noticed when I changed the user agent string to Microsoft Internet Explorer in 0.9 using firesomething the problem disappeared.
Crazy Browser is that affected? isn't this IE based and if so might be vunerable too?
Click here for a Penguin not as hard as David Huffmans designs but ideal for your linux box
So its ok to ship windows and solaris... but just a minute when did The good ole US of A get control of linux? Erm it hasn't
maybe an american giving iraqi's linux distributions might get an american in trouble. but I don't think that would apply to the rest of the world would it.
Is it just me but does the USA have a tendency to say F*ck you we own the planet.
If something is given away freely to all, such as linux, then that is the way it is. If you want me to obey American laws and American directives then give me american citizenship.