The purpose of this site is to inform the residents of Bowness, the citizens of Calgary and others, as to how senior individuals within the City of Calgary placed the Bowness Community Association (the BCA) into receivership by illegal, corrupt and criminal means. . There has been over 5 years of corrupt and criminal acts that have been committed and they are continuing to be committed by Derek Podlubny and the present Board, ably assisted by lawyers from the law firm of Blake Cassels and Graydon.
Sorry to hear that. For what it is worth Avatar has some of the best SF futurism since Silent Running. Some bits are done to show off the pretty FX, but overall I thought it was well done.
Well lets talk about my country for a minute. 200 years ago group A (the English) were over here taking property from group B (the Aboriginals). I don't think that was communism. And now that some members of group C (descended from group A) want to give some property back to group B, I don't that that is communist either.
Once again: Do not -ever- put mission-critical systems on the Internet.
You will never win that game. Google has real time traffic info from traffic signal systems these days. How do you think the information gets through? I used to run a traffic signalling system. There was an indirect internet connection, but security was taken seriously by everybody, both working with the system and in management. I would be much more concerned about a totally airgapped system with poor internal security. Because these days you can't have a 100% air gap.
As for the default passwords, that's their own fault.
I remember, back in the day, DEC had an account called FIELD on all the VMS systems they maintained. The DEC support guy would always grumble when we disabled that account, or changed the password. Its more trouble for them, you see.
Management will want statistics out of the scada system. How many widgets processed in the last (hour, day, week, month, etc)?. So there has to be an interface. Perhaps a USB key from the HMI to an employee laptop.
The demo was pretty light on. The robot just had to demonstrate dexterity. I would like to see a robot which can pick up a person passed out on the floor and put them in bed, or for a different use case, diagnose medical problems (diabetes, heart attack?) and call an ambulance, opening the door when they arrive.
Have you ever *used* the 701's keyboard? It's horrible for pretty much any extended use. The slightly larger later models are a million times better.
Yes, I use it all the time. It does take some getting used to, and its not as good as a full sized keyboard. Still better than losing screen space for a keyboard.
Well it is a Japanese product and I doubt they have the same issues. What they do have is a huge number of really old people. If it gets used by obese people in western countries then we can take comfort from the short battery life. Maybe it should come with a complaining voice. Load limit exceeded...
My X-Rays were delayed once because a virus got into the radiology systems. The images came on CD with handy DLLs which I would not have touched even if I used windows.
My guess is that half the target audience won't have nuts at all, while the other half may be drooping down quite a bit and so will be able to find a comfortable position for said components.
Well its a fairly large, comfy seat. I have an expensive titanium railed leather seat on my commuting bike (160 AUD: I was single when I bought it). Once I slipped off a pedal and came down right on the sharp bit at the front. Christ that hurt.
At least you can't slip off this. I wonder if they have actually tried it out with somebody who can barely walk? I would hate them to fall and break half their bones.
Yeah but I think the actual agenda is the National Broadband Network. Basically the TV network owners don't want competing, free content bypassing their networks and going directly into the home. The idea behind filtering is that reasons will be found to block this content, thus preserving a revenue stream for the TV networks. Its just a way to encourage them to keep paying their license fees to the federal government.
In an armed conflict with out own Government the very best we could hope for is a disaster like Afghanistan. There are many things bad in that country but two things which stand out for me are the direct impact on civilians, and the polarising of domestic politics (ie, the Taliban).
The Government side would with walk all over the armed opposition, or fight it out in the streets for years. I don't want to be around when either of those things happen, so I believe an armed conflict is the worst possible outcome.
I think this came up before and I believe that in those countries the blocked site returns a page saying that it has been blocked, just like bluecoat in my workplace. You can use information on that page to find out why the page has been blocked.
The proposed Australian system seems to be set up to pretend that the blocked page doesn't exist. This makes it hard to distinguish between bitrot and censorship, so nobody really knows what is censored.
Because the sites are not in Australia. Having said that free webmail services seem to be major channels for hosting porn so maybe a filter will have to block billions of yahoo mail URLs.
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There has been over 5 years of corrupt and criminal acts that have been committed and they are continuing to be committed by Derek Podlubny and the present Board, ably assisted by lawyers from the law firm of Blake Cassels and Graydon.
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Sorry to hear that. For what it is worth Avatar has some of the best SF futurism since Silent Running. Some bits are done to show off the pretty FX, but overall I thought it was well done.
Second, Avatar 2 would obviously be directed by Cameron.
I bet he won't. Cameron set up the technology but I doubt he will do more than produce.
The backpack is the first of a series of similar systems to work without being strapped to a robot or attached to a cart.
Nope; it apparently has to be strapped to a human (a slave, no doubt). Definitely an improvement, efficiency-wise. :P
Or a student...
Well lets talk about my country for a minute. 200 years ago group A (the English) were over here taking property from group B (the Aboriginals). I don't think that was communism. And now that some members of group C (descended from group A) want to give some property back to group B, I don't that that is communist either.
Red light cameras are a separate enforcement system where I live. They most likely get a contact closure from the signal controller for coordination.
Once again: Do not -ever- put mission-critical systems on the Internet.
You will never win that game. Google has real time traffic info from traffic signal systems these days. How do you think the information gets through? I used to run a traffic signalling system. There was an indirect internet connection, but security was taken seriously by everybody, both working with the system and in management. I would be much more concerned about a totally airgapped system with poor internal security. Because these days you can't have a 100% air gap.
As for the default passwords, that's their own fault.
I remember, back in the day, DEC had an account called FIELD on all the VMS systems they maintained. The DEC support guy would always grumble when we disabled that account, or changed the password. Its more trouble for them, you see.
Management will want statistics out of the scada system. How many widgets processed in the last (hour, day, week, month, etc)?. So there has to be an interface. Perhaps a USB key from the HMI to an employee laptop.
The demo was pretty light on. The robot just had to demonstrate dexterity. I would like to see a robot which can pick up a person passed out on the floor and put them in bed, or for a different use case, diagnose medical problems (diabetes, heart attack?) and call an ambulance, opening the door when they arrive.
Have you ever *used* the 701's keyboard? It's horrible for pretty much any extended use. The slightly larger later models are a million times better.
Yes, I use it all the time. It does take some getting used to, and its not as good as a full sized keyboard. Still better than losing screen space for a keyboard.
Google docs?
A webcam for this would be dreamy. Flash streaming in the garden
Yeah sounds like fun ;)
701 has a keyboard. I can't see myself coding on a tablet. Also the laptop gives you root access.
Yes.
Well it is a Japanese product and I doubt they have the same issues. What they do have is a huge number of really old people. If it gets used by obese people in western countries then we can take comfort from the short battery life. Maybe it should come with a complaining voice. Load limit exceeded...
US civil wars were fought at a time when small arms were pretty much all there were. Seriously, try it against nukes and UAVs. See how far you get.
Its like they've got the Wrong Trousers.
My X-Rays were delayed once because a virus got into the radiology systems. The images came on CD with handy DLLs which I would not have touched even if I used windows.
My guess is that half the target audience won't have nuts at all, while the other half may be drooping down quite a bit and so will be able to find a comfortable position for said components.
Well its a fairly large, comfy seat. I have an expensive titanium railed leather seat on my commuting bike (160 AUD: I was single when I bought it). Once I slipped off a pedal and came down right on the sharp bit at the front. Christ that hurt.
At least you can't slip off this. I wonder if they have actually tried it out with somebody who can barely walk? I would hate them to fall and break half their bones.
The debate is fundamentally about censorship.
Yeah but I think the actual agenda is the National Broadband Network. Basically the TV network owners don't want competing, free content bypassing their networks and going directly into the home. The idea behind filtering is that reasons will be found to block this content, thus preserving a revenue stream for the TV networks. Its just a way to encourage them to keep paying their license fees to the federal government.
In an armed conflict with out own Government the very best we could hope for is a disaster like Afghanistan. There are many things bad in that country but two things which stand out for me are the direct impact on civilians, and the polarising of domestic politics (ie, the Taliban).
The Government side would with walk all over the armed opposition, or fight it out in the streets for years. I don't want to be around when either of those things happen, so I believe an armed conflict is the worst possible outcome.
I think this came up before and I believe that in those countries the blocked site returns a page saying that it has been blocked, just like bluecoat in my workplace. You can use information on that page to find out why the page has been blocked.
The proposed Australian system seems to be set up to pretend that the blocked page doesn't exist. This makes it hard to distinguish between bitrot and censorship, so nobody really knows what is censored.
Because the sites are not in Australia. Having said that free webmail services seem to be major channels for hosting porn so maybe a filter will have to block billions of yahoo mail URLs.