I realize we, as in all space agencies, use helium or something else to keep these instruments cold, but why can't we use the coldness of space to do the same thing? Isn't there some way to use one or more of the three forms of heat transfer to keep the instruments cold enough to work without having to rely on a limited source of helium?
Should someone who committed a crime be let go because some did not follow procedures
Yes. That's the whole point of having a judicial system. It spells out how the police and the legal profession must act to bring cases to trial. If you're going to abandon that system, then I don't suppose you have a problem with police coming into your house at any time of the day or night to see if you are breaking any laws.
Improper procedures should not cause a case to be overturned unless of course it could be shown that the person was guilty only because of the improper procedures.
If you, as the police or prosecutor, can't be bothered to follow proper procedures, who's to say you didn't make up evidence to indict someone? It stands to reason if whatever procedures are in place weren't followed, how does the court know that what it is asked to rule on is valid?
To use the well-worn phrase: Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
When one reads the linked article, the court indicated it was because no warrant was obtained that the tracking via GPS was invalid, not the tracking in and of itself.
Had the police done their job and obtained a warrant to plant a device on the persons car, there wouldn't have been a problem. They obviously had reasonable suspicion to suspect he was the burglar because they knew enough to single him out.
This isn't about Big Brother watching you, this is about sloppy police work (though it does tie in nicely with the previous article from Wisconsin).
As I read various comments, people are suggesting ways to thwart the attempt of a forensics expert to determine if certain files are present on a person's drive.
Which is amusing because numerous posters make the claim that they are doing nothing wrong when they get a piece of music for nothing.
So, if they're doing nothing wrong, why all the suggestions on ways to hide what you're doing?
It is not a search engine but rather a factual answer database.
Feh. Who needs a factual answer database when all you need is the giant Infosphere. You can even learn that yes, postage-stamp glue is made from toad mucus!
Yeah, yeah. I've heard the movie and book don't mesh but the overall theme is still the same: Complete access to what anyone and everyone is doing, thinking or writing.
On a related note, the following quote from Sneakers isn't too far off either:
There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!
So, I just had to cynically jump in on the "anywhere in the universe" clause.
I think what he meant by that portion is that if sometime in the distant future, when/if we're traveling among the stars, we come across some technology which we do not have/know about which would allow his likeness to be reproduced, he does not want that to happen.
Not necessarily that if an alien race broadcasts his image (though obviously, how could his executors prevent it and what legal process would be in place to challenge such use?)
So we may see new movies with Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn, Garbo and many others.
But never Paul Newman. He had this little bit in his will which said his executors should prevent any:
"virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe."
No. The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way.
Um, not nitpicking, but just where do people think the money comes from to pay the interest on those bonds?
I'm glad this question was posted because I have come to the conclusion that no matter how good I am at my current job, I'm bored and need to continue to advance myself. Unfortunately, because I work in a government environment, upgrading your skills is somewhat difficult due to union regulations about who does what as well as the whole "who you know" nonsense.
As a result, I've taken stock of what skills I do have and have realized the "Those who can't, teach" rule applies to me and will (hopefully) be shifting gears in the (very) near future. Specifically, project management.
If all goes well, I'll be heading back to school in the fall (while still working) to get a degree in IT Project Management using both credits I've earned in other computer classes as well as life experiences. I'm still waiting on word from the school as to how many credits I can transfer so we have an idea of what classes I need to take.
The information provided here, some of which I already knew about, is invaluable and while I'm one of those who will bitch about the cruft you folks sometimes write when responding, the responses so far are probably the most informative I've seen in a long time.
Thanks again and keep those suggestions coming.
P.S. If anyone has an opening for a low level PM, drop me a note. Organization and the ability to see the entire project, and in what order things need to be done, are my forté.
My wife and I watched a live event streamed over the internet using a wireless router, a laptop, a TV, and a receiver.
Oh, is that all? I can watch a live event with just a tv and cable plugged into its back.
But I'm sure for the average person, configuring a wireless router so it recognizes their own network, which they also set up, dragging out a laptop, hooking it to their tv with the right cable and running it through a receiver is much more convenient.
It beat the hell out of watching it on just the laptop and we didn't even have to buy anything extra.
So the wireless router, cables and receiver were all free?
I earn an absurd amount of money because I'm good at writing them.
Your company hiring? Part of my job is doing exactly what the author of this posting does (and apparently you). Document, step-by-step, how to do something. I'm writing for people who are supposed to know this stuff already yet I still provide screenshots and exact steps (Click Next, Click Next, Click Next, Click OK) so there is no misunderstanding or confusion as to what needs to be done.
The only time things don't work out as expected is when someone didn't follow exactly what I told them do. Maybe they thought they knew what they were doing and tried to take a shortcut or inadvertently missed a step (I'm guilty of that). Maybe they were just lazy and didn't bother to read (they are government workers after all). Whatever the case, 99.9% of the time there is a problem, it's because the steps I outlined were not followed.
someone who knows how to document a procedure. I don't use linux but even I could follow the instructions.
This is one of the key reasons for a slow adoption rate among interested users. Instead of getting the usual, "RTFM newb!", if there was more explicit documentation such as this that people could be pointed to, people would not be so readily turned off.
And no, MAN pages do not count as documentation. Some people (dare I say most?) need step-by-step instructions on how to do something the first time so they are sure they are doing things correctly. Afterwards, they're free to tinker til their hearts delight.
I distinctly remember, way back when during the Reagan years, people were crowing about how we in the U.S. had it so much better than the Soviets. We didn't have to worry about providing papers to travel (Red October anyone?), we didn't have to worry about our neighbors spying on us and reporting "unpatriotic" deeds, we didn't have to worry about government agents bursting into our homes without a warrant and we especially didn't have to worry about the government listening in on our phone calls.
Now we have two different parts of the government trying to justify why they can, whenever, they feel like it, listen to our phone conversations all in the name of stopping "them" from causing us harm. The worst part about it, the same people who 25 years ago were crowing about how free we were compared to the Soviets are now the same people (assuming they're still alive) who are defending these blatant infringements on our freedoms, all in the name of securing our freedom.
Is that like, "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."?
Right. Because every file TPB has is legally able to be there. All the artists, all the producers, all the everyone whose work is now available, are happy for someone else to be giving away the work they created and for which they are not being compensated for.
Just because some of the stuff on TPB might legally be able to be there doesn't justify them blatantly offering items which they know they have no right to be distributing. I'm sure if the owners had some software which they slaved over and other people were now offering for free, they'd be happy as clams to not get paid for their work.
His site has hundreds of thousands of registered users so I am presuming he has a few. He does have an alternative method for color blind people to use.
has a different take on the subject. Rather than trying to obscure the image with lines or similar measures, it uses a series of letters, some of which are a color. You are then asked to type in the colored letters to proceed.
I don't know if these are static images or generated each time but the owner claims his site has almost no spammers (i.e. people have to do it, not machines).
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After the helium supplies have evaporated,
I realize we, as in all space agencies, use helium or something else to keep these instruments cold, but why can't we use the coldness of space to do the same thing? Isn't there some way to use one or more of the three forms of heat transfer to keep the instruments cold enough to work without having to rely on a limited source of helium?
Kinda like fantasia and mickey mouse and the brooms, y'know.
Or like Scratchy did to Itchy in Scratchtasia.
And wait till you hear about my penis!
It grew inversely to your height?
Should someone who committed a crime be let go because some did not follow procedures
Yes. That's the whole point of having a judicial system. It spells out how the police and the legal profession must act to bring cases to trial. If you're going to abandon that system, then I don't suppose you have a problem with police coming into your house at any time of the day or night to see if you are breaking any laws.
Improper procedures should not cause a case to be overturned unless of course it could be shown that the person was guilty only because of the improper procedures.
If you, as the police or prosecutor, can't be bothered to follow proper procedures, who's to say you didn't make up evidence to indict someone? It stands to reason if whatever procedures are in place weren't followed, how does the court know that what it is asked to rule on is valid?
To use the well-worn phrase: Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
When one reads the linked article, the court indicated it was because no warrant was obtained that the tracking via GPS was invalid, not the tracking in and of itself.
Had the police done their job and obtained a warrant to plant a device on the persons car, there wouldn't have been a problem. They obviously had reasonable suspicion to suspect he was the burglar because they knew enough to single him out.
This isn't about Big Brother watching you, this is about sloppy police work (though it does tie in nicely with the previous article from Wisconsin).
In case you didn't know, Emeril is opening his first restaurant in the Northeast at the Sands casino going up in Bethlehem.
Yeah, I know. I had the same opinion.
As I read various comments, people are suggesting ways to thwart the attempt of a forensics expert to determine if certain files are present on a person's drive.
Which is amusing because numerous posters make the claim that they are doing nothing wrong when they get a piece of music for nothing.
So, if they're doing nothing wrong, why all the suggestions on ways to hide what you're doing?
It is not a search engine but rather a factual answer database.
Feh. Who needs a factual answer database when all you need is the giant Infosphere. You can even learn that yes, postage-stamp glue is made from toad mucus!
BTW Virginia is also a commonwealth state.
As are Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Massachusetts.
*cue spooky music*
Yeah, because there's no reason to worry about vegetables causing illnesses.
Yeah, yeah. I've heard the movie and book don't mesh but the overall theme is still the same: Complete access to what anyone and everyone is doing, thinking or writing.
On a related note, the following quote from Sneakers isn't too far off either:
There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!
So, I just had to cynically jump in on the "anywhere in the universe" clause.
I think what he meant by that portion is that if sometime in the distant future, when/if we're traveling among the stars, we come across some technology which we do not have/know about which would allow his likeness to be reproduced, he does not want that to happen.
Not necessarily that if an alien race broadcasts his image (though obviously, how could his executors prevent it and what legal process would be in place to challenge such use?)
So we may see new movies with Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn, Garbo and many others.
But never Paul Newman. He had this little bit in his will which said his executors should prevent any:
"virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe."
No. The funds for constructing the fiber network come from bonds issued by the City of Wilson. Tax revenues are not being used to fund this project in any way.
Um, not nitpicking, but just where do people think the money comes from to pay the interest on those bonds?
I'm glad this question was posted because I have come to the conclusion that no matter how good I am at my current job, I'm bored and need to continue to advance myself. Unfortunately, because I work in a government environment, upgrading your skills is somewhat difficult due to union regulations about who does what as well as the whole "who you know" nonsense.
As a result, I've taken stock of what skills I do have and have realized the "Those who can't, teach" rule applies to me and will (hopefully) be shifting gears in the (very) near future. Specifically, project management.
If all goes well, I'll be heading back to school in the fall (while still working) to get a degree in IT Project Management using both credits I've earned in other computer classes as well as life experiences. I'm still waiting on word from the school as to how many credits I can transfer so we have an idea of what classes I need to take.
The information provided here, some of which I already knew about, is invaluable and while I'm one of those who will bitch about the cruft you folks sometimes write when responding, the responses so far are probably the most informative I've seen in a long time.
Thanks again and keep those suggestions coming.
P.S. If anyone has an opening for a low level PM, drop me a note. Organization and the ability to see the entire project, and in what order things need to be done, are my forté.
and must die
Why would I want to permanently embed an insecure product in my tv?
My wife and I watched a live event streamed over the internet using a wireless router, a laptop, a TV, and a receiver.
Oh, is that all? I can watch a live event with just a tv and cable plugged into its back.
But I'm sure for the average person, configuring a wireless router so it recognizes their own network, which they also set up, dragging out a laptop, hooking it to their tv with the right cable and running it through a receiver is much more convenient.
It beat the hell out of watching it on just the laptop and we didn't even have to buy anything extra.
So the wireless router, cables and receiver were all free?
Isn't it mother lode, not motherload?
This is Slashdot. Their is no room for correct spelling or word usage. Your one of those gammer nazis who should stop being so pedantec.
I earn an absurd amount of money because I'm good at writing them.
Your company hiring? Part of my job is doing exactly what the author of this posting does (and apparently you). Document, step-by-step, how to do something. I'm writing for people who are supposed to know this stuff already yet I still provide screenshots and exact steps (Click Next, Click Next, Click Next, Click OK) so there is no misunderstanding or confusion as to what needs to be done.
The only time things don't work out as expected is when someone didn't follow exactly what I told them do. Maybe they thought they knew what they were doing and tried to take a shortcut or inadvertently missed a step (I'm guilty of that). Maybe they were just lazy and didn't bother to read (they are government workers after all). Whatever the case, 99.9% of the time there is a problem, it's because the steps I outlined were not followed.
someone who knows how to document a procedure. I don't use linux but even I could follow the instructions.
This is one of the key reasons for a slow adoption rate among interested users. Instead of getting the usual, "RTFM newb!", if there was more explicit documentation such as this that people could be pointed to, people would not be so readily turned off.
And no, MAN pages do not count as documentation. Some people (dare I say most?) need step-by-step instructions on how to do something the first time so they are sure they are doing things correctly. Afterwards, they're free to tinker til their hearts delight.
*gives a mold-friendly thumbs up*
Actually, I am talking about the lib philosophy "do whatever feels good at the moment and screw any consequences later".
Which is comparable to the conservative philosophy of "debt doesn't matter"?
I distinctly remember, way back when during the Reagan years, people were crowing about how we in the U.S. had it so much better than the Soviets. We didn't have to worry about providing papers to travel (Red October anyone?), we didn't have to worry about our neighbors spying on us and reporting "unpatriotic" deeds, we didn't have to worry about government agents bursting into our homes without a warrant and we especially didn't have to worry about the government listening in on our phone calls.
Now we have two different parts of the government trying to justify why they can, whenever, they feel like it, listen to our phone conversations all in the name of stopping "them" from causing us harm. The worst part about it, the same people who 25 years ago were crowing about how free we were compared to the Soviets are now the same people (assuming they're still alive) who are defending these blatant infringements on our freedoms, all in the name of securing our freedom.
Is that like, "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."?
Right. Because every file TPB has is legally able to be there. All the artists, all the producers, all the everyone whose work is now available, are happy for someone else to be giving away the work they created and for which they are not being compensated for.
Just because some of the stuff on TPB might legally be able to be there doesn't justify them blatantly offering items which they know they have no right to be distributing. I'm sure if the owners had some software which they slaved over and other people were now offering for free, they'd be happy as clams to not get paid for their work.
Fire away assholes, my karma can take it.
His site has hundreds of thousands of registered users so I am presuming he has a few. He does have an alternative method for color blind people to use.
has a different take on the subject. Rather than trying to obscure the image with lines or similar measures, it uses a series of letters, some of which are a color. You are then asked to type in the colored letters to proceed.
I don't know if these are static images or generated each time but the owner claims his site has almost no spammers (i.e. people have to do it, not machines).