It would be interesting if they could build a cofferdam to house the bad ends and conduct repairs in it.
Say each segment is some 300 feet long. One or more cofferdams of such length could be built and kept on stand-by. When a cable is damaged or cut in some way, the cofferdams (maybe similar to a submarine or coffin with hinges on one side so that the other open and close to admit the cable. The bad ends would be trimmed off and given new ends, and the cofferdam unlocked and flooded and dragged aside, or the cable dragged out from the opened cofferdam.
Admittedly, the cofferdam might have to be as big as a small submarine (say, 33' in diameter) and include local power supply, air generation, and resting areas for the crew, as well as rapid escape gear. This thing might have to survive extreme depths of around 5,000 feet. But, it won't be rated for combat, shock, and so on, but any 1.5 to 1.9 survival factor (similar to USN submarines) might be good enough since the cofferdam would be towed and ballasted down to the rated working depting.
Possibly even better might be a huge half-pipe that is massively heavy enough to semi-protect workers who are in advanced work suits. But, the nice thing about a mobile clamshell/decomissioned sub-like hull is the crew would be working at depth without suits, pressurized like sub crews, and avoid decompression routines.
reduce contamination or theft of company IP. Many of the restricted use policies were aimed at protecting companies legally, but prior to the ubituity of mobile computers' ability to boot and use external devices and simultaneously bypass local/onboard storage. So, if a users uses bootable DVDs or CDs or flash drives, and no data is stored nor allowed to use the hard drive even as a temp location, and if all the user-surfed/interacted bytes/bits only go to user-owned storage media, then using the company computer is almost like using the company car to buy dinner on the way home, or to drop off mail on the way to work... It would be smart, though, for the user to disconnect the company drive (if IT hasn't glued or special-screw-locked the drive cover to the chassis) to eliminate any chance of sophisticated scripts mounting and reading internal drives to read them and to attempt to write to them.
I would argue that as long as the machine ID is not tied to acts nefarious or embarrasing to the company, then who should care? I am sure plenty of carpenters use some of their company tools around the home, even if they have a totally duplicated, personal set.
Companies wanting to REALLY enforce no-non-work use need to consider specialized BIOS-MOBO combinations, but then that could increase the asset value and may not be worth the expense and reduced support options.
As an aside, I think Apple could modify the MacAir or the MacBook models to be sub-$500 and to be student-friendly, but not as appealing to adults seeking to get a cheap Apple netbook. The lightness and larger screens would be superior to the eePC type netbooks, and the al-you-min-ee-yum chassis would lend to durability, and survive the students' bulging backpacks chock-full of overweighing text books.
I think Apple could be missing a great opportunity to become prime source for student computing. Schools might be able to migrate their current seat licenses to BootCamp or Parallels or VMWare or VirtualBox...
Apple could literally make a KILLING in this program. I understand they are looking for a lower-cost entry-point MacNetBook equivalent or better of netbooks. Well, Apple, ramp up the design board and assembly lines, because with MILLIONS of potential new owners of laptops who could be swayed to "grow up Mac", you could strip down the MacBook to be the "Student MacAir".
Well, it could me mshaft and other companies lobbying the government to get taxpayers to hand over funding for "per seat, named" licenses so they can create or use HR programs like Resumex or whatever and merge them into "profiles" to assign them their State-Career-Compatibility-Matching software. Plus, it could be the ideal "tether" to the population.
Now, will the students be charged with DCMA and State Secrets violations if they search for, find, disclose, tamper with, disable/destroy, and defeat or deceive the built-in GPS/tracker software and associated mini-microphones and mini-cams?
You know, it's "NOT NICE to fool Mother Nature..."
My eyes saw:
"Technology: How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer"
"Technology: How To Build a Hebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer"
If i wait about 10 seconds and then move my mouse or highlight the text i eventally can read it, but something weird is going on. It's in Firefox AND in Opera...
Under the pressure of 47,000 consumed black holes, they will (disembodied) definitely come closer together as one entity, physically, and molecularly. As for the souls, who knows?
Kewl. Don't be SILENT! Be... SOYLENT. This "Green" thing is getting out of control. Maybe there are enough corrupt, puffy politicians to fill the "Spent/Used Politicians" hoppers. Don't they drink enough coffee. Between the CORRUPT politicians and the coffee in their systems, AND the spent grinds...
Soylent GREEN is PEOPLE.... Well, it might be green/brown sludge if the "oil" pressed from polician (hyoomon) beans..., hehehe
TorsoWoman: Not PEEEpuhl... BRAAAINS-suh... (spine tapping on table) Mortician, quizzically: Why do you eat... brains? TW: It makes the PAIN go AWAY... M: baffled: Pain? What pain is that? TW: The PAIN of BEING DEAD... M: Hwuh, I guess it HURTS to be DEAD... TW: I.. can feel myself rotting... away... (moans) Brains, brains brains brains brains......(spine tapping on table, rapidly)
How long before UK police want a "brain drain device", due to record number of arrests for teen stabbings and other crimes that rival PC confiscations/forensic investigations?
If this brain imagery tool is a real, working device, it can only be short period of time before psychotropic drugs make a comeback but face usage in conjunction with a brain scanner.
Talk about brain-drain total information awareness...
What if I WANT a Washington State ID for the benefit of not getting a passport (not that I *do not* want to get one, but this might be a scenario for those who never intend to travel outside US borders to another country other than Mexico or Canada), but also want to make sure that it is severally times harder to be an ID theft victim. Currently, at least in 2003, when i moved to Oregon, the obtained my California ID and plates and issued me new ID within 30 minutes of proving my California ID and passing the Oregon DMV test, Oregon took my CA ID. There was a reciprocal program between the two states to combat fraud, where, in order to obtain an Oregon state ID one HAD to surrender their California (and, I presume the same applies to other bordering states) ID/DL.
A year later, I returned to CA due to inability to find work in OR. But, DMV in CA wanted to take my ID. But, i'd started a business in Oregon (in name, but nothing in activity managed to take off) and wanted a way to continue a chain of ID proof other than SSN card, tax returns and such. My Oregon DMV/DL was what i chose because it was what i presented to various county and state agencies. But, California DMV then wanted to punch a HOLE in the DOB. I balked because if my bank in Oregon felt uneasy, then they might deny me access to my accounts if all i had for proof was a damaged/voided state ID. I suggested to DMV that they let or make me to -- in the presence of one or more DMV officers -- write on the back of my Oregon "NOT A VALID ID IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA/FOR ID CONTINUITY PURPOSES ONLY". They kinda reacted like, "Hmmph, pretty savvy. OK, we'll buy that", and they let me keep my Oregon ID. Besides, it was a cool piece of plastic and was more impressive to me than the CA ID. Besides, i liked the BLUE color instead of the orange/yellow...
But, i kinda LIKE the extra steps the Washington system takes. If I go there and then stay for 30 days to become a resident, and can prove "intent" to become a resident, obtain a WA state ID, then return to CA or go to another state, i'd expect a database to show the applications and approvals, along with my face.
It should not be a crime or misdmeanor to possess multiple IDs, so long as the holder of multiple IDs declares, presents, and allows inventory/logging of each so that they are on notice to not commit fraud, and it also could help keep such people off lists of persons of interest because it could be deemed the person is trying to be as above board as possible. The fewer false hits in a database, the better. This could be a way to reduce false hits in national, disparate databases that are going to be merged anyway at some point.
Now, why a smile would be a problem is beyond me. They SEEM to be retaining multiple images, so they can simply compare facial structure points of ALL the pics. It could serve to flag individuals who get cosmetic surgery trying to become an invented person.
from the get-go see this was the veritable (and now, verifiable) "spiral of doom", leading to a winding, windy death for any riders? I guess the bonuses are spiraling and winding around an axis of death. Not a bad, uplifting way to "check out" of this realm of existence...
But, for windows users, when sysadmins can use "$" related prompts to back up files, they can conceivably access your FF & Opera cache/history and other files. I wish those were encrypted based on an initial password & passphrase so that ONLY the user (unless an in-line keystroke logger is surreptitiously employed) can open the browser locally. It would be nice if Opera or Mozilla or Google built an end-to-end service using a hash tool like banks and "trusted sites" do. This way, you could set up a rotating password, force it to randomly or by schedule expire, and deprive some nosey admins or others from seeing EVERY site you go to via copying browser history and cache files.
But, somehow, i feel i have fatal logic in this idea.
"what dedicated player hasn't "ducked" away from incoming fire, or tried to peer around the corner of the monitor when trying to see around a corner?? Same behaviour, really -- putting yourself in the place of your onscreen avatar's viewpoint to the point that you lose track of which body you actually inhabit, and react as if the avatar is real and YOU."
What on-line pr0n add-dicked hasn't looked or felt around under the desk at work while looking around the monitor?
Things will be interesting if kompooters and adult enter-stain-men-t venues merge. Will they be the new "Speakeasies" of our time?
I prefer to make LOVE, not WAR. So... Butt, Real-Doll... hear, I cum...
Butt, an asside. (please refrain from "Hello Dolly"...)
Does that mean we can have mind-body/booty transformayshun into a man-akin? Now, peephole can sex-spear-e-ence same-sex relay-shuns with or without, within and with out feeling or feeling shunned.
Butt, also, if we can carry a dummy along, then when him/her-roids become un-bare-able, we can transfer our minds/sould (and hopefully our pain receptors, or perceptive/receptive pain receptors) and transfer our asses (minds) out of the body into the new receptacle.
What becomes of two who become one? Will they be singing Hall & Oates' "Did It In a Minute" (..."And if TWO become ONE, who is the ONE TWO beCOME?")
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It would be interesting if they could build a cofferdam to house the bad ends and conduct repairs in it.
Say each segment is some 300 feet long. One or more cofferdams of such length could be built and kept on stand-by. When a cable is damaged or cut in some way, the cofferdams (maybe similar to a submarine or coffin with hinges on one side so that the other open and close to admit the cable. The bad ends would be trimmed off and given new ends, and the cofferdam unlocked and flooded and dragged aside, or the cable dragged out from the opened cofferdam.
Admittedly, the cofferdam might have to be as big as a small submarine (say, 33' in diameter) and include local power supply, air generation, and resting areas for the crew, as well as rapid escape gear. This thing might have to survive extreme depths of around 5,000 feet. But, it won't be rated for combat, shock, and so on, but any 1.5 to 1.9 survival factor (similar to USN submarines) might be good enough since the cofferdam would be towed and ballasted down to the rated working depting.
Possibly even better might be a huge half-pipe that is massively heavy enough to semi-protect workers who are in advanced work suits. But, the nice thing about a mobile clamshell/decomissioned sub-like hull is the crew would be working at depth without suits, pressurized like sub crews, and avoid decompression routines.
"STING".
But, i wonder if they used RAID to dragnet the mosquito...
SUN of a BITCH....
reduce contamination or theft of company IP. Many of the restricted use policies were aimed at protecting companies legally, but prior to the ubituity of mobile computers' ability to boot and use external devices and simultaneously bypass local/onboard storage. So, if a users uses bootable DVDs or CDs or flash drives, and no data is stored nor allowed to use the hard drive even as a temp location, and if all the user-surfed/interacted bytes/bits only go to user-owned storage media, then using the company computer is almost like using the company car to buy dinner on the way home, or to drop off mail on the way to work... It would be smart, though, for the user to disconnect the company drive (if IT hasn't glued or special-screw-locked the drive cover to the chassis) to eliminate any chance of sophisticated scripts mounting and reading internal drives to read them and to attempt to write to them.
I would argue that as long as the machine ID is not tied to acts nefarious or embarrasing to the company, then who should care? I am sure plenty of carpenters use some of their company tools around the home, even if they have a totally duplicated, personal set.
Companies wanting to REALLY enforce no-non-work use need to consider specialized BIOS-MOBO combinations, but then that could increase the asset value and may not be worth the expense and reduced support options.
As an aside, I think Apple could modify the MacAir or the MacBook models to be sub-$500 and to be student-friendly, but not as appealing to adults seeking to get a cheap Apple netbook. The lightness and larger screens would be superior to the eePC type netbooks, and the al-you-min-ee-yum chassis would lend to durability, and survive the students' bulging backpacks chock-full of overweighing text books.
I think Apple could be missing a great opportunity to become prime source for student computing. Schools might be able to migrate their current seat licenses to BootCamp or Parallels or VMWare or VirtualBox...
and then all Tom Tom users could be Tom Tom Club members...
Does anyone wonder if Majel left in will the option for her son to allow use of her voice?
If her voice is "Trek", could it be used in GPS devices without Paramount getting a cut?
Apple could literally make a KILLING in this program. I understand they are looking for a lower-cost entry-point MacNetBook equivalent or better of netbooks. Well, Apple, ramp up the design board and assembly lines, because with MILLIONS of potential new owners of laptops who could be swayed to "grow up Mac", you could strip down the MacBook to be the "Student MacAir".
Well, it could me mshaft and other companies lobbying the government to get taxpayers to hand over funding for "per seat, named" licenses so they can create or use HR programs like Resumex or whatever and merge them into "profiles" to assign them their State-Career-Compatibility-Matching software. Plus, it could be the ideal "tether" to the population.
Now, will the students be charged with DCMA and State Secrets violations if they search for, find, disclose, tamper with, disable/destroy, and defeat or deceive the built-in GPS/tracker software and associated mini-microphones and mini-cams?
I don't suppose either party will exclaim to the other, "POUND SAND"...
(Here in the US/ex-navy frame of mind, i take it to mean "pound and pack sand in your ass for all i care, and cap it off with a Bosun's fid")
You know, it's "NOT NICE to fool Mother Nature..."
My eyes saw:
"Technology: How To Build a Homebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer"
"Technology: How To Build a Hebrew PS3 Cluster Supercomputer"
If i wait about 10 seconds and then move my mouse or highlight the text i eventally can read it, but something weird is going on. It's in Firefox AND in Opera...
in this font will they be even HOLEIER?
Will sermons be read from HOLIER SCRIPTURES?
If a junior/new priest reads from book at the altar, should the hail be "HOLEY HOLEY HOLEY LORD..."
of guns, George Foreman punches, and air hammers against cow skulls....
Intellectually, maybe. After all, they are ... "brighter than a thousand sons"....
Under the pressure of 47,000 consumed black holes, they will (disembodied) definitely come closer together as one entity, physically, and molecularly. As for the souls, who knows?
a sec...
For a moment I was thinking that sounds like:
"Sex doesn't HAVE to be sex", and
"Vaseline doesn't HAVE to be Vaseline", but,
tell that to their respective proponents...
Kewl. Don't be SILENT! Be... SOYLENT. This "Green" thing is getting out of control. Maybe there are enough corrupt, puffy politicians to fill the "Spent/Used Politicians" hoppers. Don't they drink enough coffee. Between the CORRUPT politicians and the coffee in their systems, AND the spent grinds...
Soylent GREEN is PEOPLE.... Well, it might be green/brown sludge if the "oil" pressed from polician (hyoomon) beans..., hehehe
TorsoWoman: Not PEEEpuhl... BRAAAINS-suh... (spine tapping on table)
Mortician, quizzically: Why do you eat... brains?
TW: It makes the PAIN go AWAY...
M: baffled: Pain? What pain is that?
TW: The PAIN of BEING DEAD...
M: Hwuh, I guess it HURTS to be DEAD...
TW: I.. can feel myself rotting... away... (moans) Brains, brains brains brains brains......(spine tapping on table, rapidly)
stories...
How long before UK police want a "brain drain device", due to record number of arrests for teen stabbings and other crimes that rival PC confiscations/forensic investigations?
If this brain imagery tool is a real, working device, it can only be short period of time before psychotropic drugs make a comeback but face usage in conjunction with a brain scanner.
Talk about brain-drain total information awareness...
What if I WANT a Washington State ID for the benefit of not getting a passport (not that I *do not* want to get one, but this might be a scenario for those who never intend to travel outside US borders to another country other than Mexico or Canada), but also want to make sure that it is severally times harder to be an ID theft victim. Currently, at least in 2003, when i moved to Oregon, the obtained my California ID and plates and issued me new ID within 30 minutes of proving my California ID and passing the Oregon DMV test, Oregon took my CA ID. There was a reciprocal program between the two states to combat fraud, where, in order to obtain an Oregon state ID one HAD to surrender their California (and, I presume the same applies to other bordering states) ID/DL.
A year later, I returned to CA due to inability to find work in OR. But, DMV in CA wanted to take my ID. But, i'd started a business in Oregon (in name, but nothing in activity managed to take off) and wanted a way to continue a chain of ID proof other than SSN card, tax returns and such. My Oregon DMV/DL was what i chose because it was what i presented to various county and state agencies. But, California DMV then wanted to punch a HOLE in the DOB. I balked because if my bank in Oregon felt uneasy, then they might deny me access to my accounts if all i had for proof was a damaged/voided state ID. I suggested to DMV that they let or make me to -- in the presence of one or more DMV officers -- write on the back of my Oregon "NOT A VALID ID IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA/FOR ID CONTINUITY PURPOSES ONLY". They kinda reacted like, "Hmmph, pretty savvy. OK, we'll buy that", and they let me keep my Oregon ID. Besides, it was a cool piece of plastic and was more impressive to me than the CA ID. Besides, i liked the BLUE color instead of the orange/yellow...
But, i kinda LIKE the extra steps the Washington system takes. If I go there and then stay for 30 days to become a resident, and can prove "intent" to become a resident, obtain a WA state ID, then return to CA or go to another state, i'd expect a database to show the applications and approvals, along with my face.
It should not be a crime or misdmeanor to possess multiple IDs, so long as the holder of multiple IDs declares, presents, and allows inventory/logging of each so that they are on notice to not commit fraud, and it also could help keep such people off lists of persons of interest because it could be deemed the person is trying to be as above board as possible. The fewer false hits in a database, the better. This could be a way to reduce false hits in national, disparate databases that are going to be merged anyway at some point.
Now, why a smile would be a problem is beyond me. They SEEM to be retaining multiple images, so they can simply compare facial structure points of ALL the pics. It could serve to flag individuals who get cosmetic surgery trying to become an invented person.
from the get-go see this was the veritable (and now, verifiable) "spiral of doom", leading to a winding, windy death for any riders? I guess the bonuses are spiraling and winding around an axis of death. Not a bad, uplifting way to "check out" of this realm of existence...
More IMPORTANTLY, will it help to make windows obsolete?
But, for windows users, when sysadmins can use "$" related prompts to back up files, they can conceivably access your FF & Opera cache/history and other files. I wish those were encrypted based on an initial password & passphrase so that ONLY the user (unless an in-line keystroke logger is surreptitiously employed) can open the browser locally. It would be nice if Opera or Mozilla or Google built an end-to-end service using a hash tool like banks and "trusted sites" do. This way, you could set up a rotating password, force it to randomly or by schedule expire, and deprive some nosey admins or others from seeing EVERY site you go to via copying browser history and cache files.
But, somehow, i feel i have fatal logic in this idea.
And cents, too.
For a sec, i though of Sunny D (yeh, florida, other side of world)... But, with this grid, Hawai'i can ask/tell the oil companies:
"HEY! How's about a HAWAI'IAN PUNCH!"
How many pr0n stars "become" their ... counterpart... but we never see because its in the outtakes...
"First Person Suckee"
"what dedicated player hasn't "ducked" away from incoming fire, or tried to peer around the corner of the monitor when trying to see around a corner?? Same behaviour, really -- putting yourself in the place of your onscreen avatar's viewpoint to the point that you lose track of which body you actually inhabit, and react as if the avatar is real and YOU."
What on-line pr0n add-dicked hasn't looked or felt around under the desk at work while looking around the monitor?
Things will be interesting if kompooters and adult enter-stain-men-t venues merge. Will they be the new "Speakeasies" of our time?
Appropriately... fitting topic... "Hard Ware"
I prefer to make LOVE, not WAR. So... Butt, Real-Doll... hear, I cum...
Butt, an asside. (please refrain from "Hello Dolly"...)
Does that mean we can have mind-body/booty transformayshun into a man-akin? Now, peephole can sex-spear-e-ence same-sex relay-shuns with or without, within and with out feeling or feeling shunned.
Butt, also, if we can carry a dummy along, then when him/her-roids become un-bare-able, we can transfer our minds/sould (and hopefully our pain receptors, or perceptive/receptive pain receptors) and transfer our asses (minds) out of the body into the new receptacle.
What becomes of two who become one? Will they be singing Hall & Oates' "Did It In a Minute" (..."And if TWO become ONE, who is the ONE TWO beCOME?")
What if something leads to ... "loose screws..."?