Why one guy couldn't touch wires inside AND outside my house is anyone's guess.
For the same reason the guy in the body shop doesn't diagnose fuel injectors, and the mechanic doesn't bang out fenders. The tech who comes to your house is geared for tasks like settop changeouts, F-fitting replacements, ground rods, reworking a drop, etc. The line tech is carrying amp parts, tap plates, pole hardware, system maps, etc. and the skills to wield them.
Back when I was running a cable repair dispatch office, our cost on rolling a housecall truck was $N an hour and a tech truck ran close to $N*2.25. Less than 15% of house calls were the result of system problems; do the math.
I should p'bly mod you down, since you're a bit off-topic -- I'm not aware of a Niven-in-film series/work that needs re-booting. But instead I'll join you in off-topic-land...Ringworld would be a perfect series of texts to adapt to film: Sets would be easy, and Weta would love the character work (just not sure if there'd be an uncanny valley prob with Chmee and Nessus;-). There's so much published backstory that a screenwriter could go deep into "Known Space" -- showing us the rise and resolution of the Puppeteer's excess heat problem, showing us the Kzin homeworld (with maybe a few vignettes of the Man-Kzin Wars), devoting a few minutes to Phssthpok's heroic voyage to Sol System, etc. Bog, but I'd love to see a Trinoc or Bandersnatch....
The original stories have everything modern films want: hetero-sex (Teela Brown and tons of rishathra), cool boats (Long Shot, Needle, flycycles), battles (esp. in the 3rd Ringworld book), McGuyverisms, and huge "message" potential (nudge-nudge, Mr. Cameron) from the role of ARM in Earth culture, to Flatlanders vs. Belters, to Puppeteers-as-power-elite, to Chmee's journey of learning patience and diplomacy, and the ultimate fun of Niven's alternate Genesis tale of the Pak.
So if any "reboot" is broad enough to attempt restoring science fiction films to former glory, I'm with ya on Ringworld. Or, another great way to go would be either of two sets of work by Herbert -- Destination: Void is tragically undervalued (along with its follow-on works); it's the earliest fiction I know of that tackles construction principles of an AI. Or Herbert's two Jorg McKie books (Whipping Star and mostly The Dosadi Experiment...maybe the Tea Partiers could get excited enough about the Bureau of Sabotage to let the subtle consciousness-raising that Dosadi's solution induces soak in undetected.....
You misread. The relevant paragraph is, "We used a one-dimensional model for this project," says co-author Wladimir Lyra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astrophysics at the Museum. "Three dimensional models are so computationally expensive that we could only follow the evolution of disks for about 100 orbits -- about 1,000 years. We want to see what happens over the entire multimillion year lifetime of a disk."
Another vote for Sonos. It's the wife-friendliest, kid-friendliest, overnight-visitor-friendliest, drunk-out-of-your-mind-friendliest system out there. Install and setup is a breeze -- truly as easy as the diagram portrays. The mesh network is excellent, or you can run it wired. You can source music from your computer/CD player/iPod, or let Sonos grab internet radio streams or services like last.fm, Sirius, Rhapsody, etc. Use Sonos to feed your own amplifier(s), or buy amplified Sonos nodes.
Slashdot covered 'em when they were new; many favorable comments. They were kick-ass at launch; these days they're miles better. Totally modular, so the system can grow as budget/desire dictates. The secure mesh network is excellent, or you can run 'em wired with CAT5. The new handheld controllers are great, or use an iPhone, iPod touch, or computer. (I've never hooked one up for a linux user, but Wine should do the job just fine.)
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Small, independent online news outlet? You must be new to this planet. Say hello to the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network and all their friends at TimeWarner. (Lemme guess...you also thought Adult Swim was just a couple of guys jazzin' on Williams Street.)
Simply to demonstrate that it's rarely as easy as "if they'd just do XYZ their world would be rosy"...
By specifying a hard path for the.xml file, your code assumes that users have left their iTunes Library file in the default location. If the library file has been moved -- say, to an external drive along with content files to make the entire library portable -- your code will produce, at best, access to an old.xml file (and at worst, a completely empty.xml file).
On a Mac, the most-recently used iTunes Music Library.xml file is best located by reading the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iApps.plist file for the "iTunesRecentDatabasePaths" item, and extracting the.xml file's path. (For example, run defaults read com.apple.iApps iTunesRecentDatabasePaths in a shell script.) The equivalent item in a Windows "plist" file would be iTunes Library XML Location in the "iTunes Prefs.xml" file in the user's Application Data folder.
You're asking papers to turn back the clock.... Newspapers have used "3rd party ad servers" for quite some time now; regional or nat'l campaigns where rates, art, copy, etc. are provided by an agency and sold under "co-op" programs that split costs between local outlets and national manufacturers/distributors. All the paper has to do is insert local affiliate info, drop the block into their page layout, and keep paperwork on billing; it's a pretty good system. Why force each paper to deal with each advertiser "from scratch"?
The paper itself can also serve the role of 3rd party ad server -- the outstate edition of a large metro daily is going to print different ads (and news) than the city edition (if I live in BFE, what do I care about the prices/products in Big City? Let the ads be responsive to the market where they're being displayed).
Getting rid of 3rd party ad servers would benefit...who? If I'm in New York reading an e-newspaper that's hosted in California, why should the 'net be forced to make all the hops to serve me CA ads? A sharp 3rd party ad serving outfit is going to have a server close to my location, saving hops; it's also going to serve up ads that relate to my "geographic" -- featuring local/regional outlets, promotions, products, etc. The paper gets to concentrate on what it does best -- serve content -- while the ad server folks take care of what they do best -- speed up load times, geo-coordinate the ads, compile stats, assess usage, etc.
Sure, but that just makes next year's goats all the more tasty;-) We've been doing this for years...come late September we trade one or two goats in exchange for having another one or two rendered, and then it's Jamaican barbeque weekend while we eat the lawn mowers.
You're reifying "history," as though it was a thing with independent existence. History is human-created, following the events it explains. If you attempt to preserve only the "historical" sites in the world, then you have indeed ceded history to the victors -- those who control the means of designating what history is.
All information (evidence) is questionable, either in fact or context; this is something historians learn early-on. What we know about, for instance, early Mercantilism comes not only from contemporary essays, explicit descriptions and official policies, but mainly from poring over all the "abandoned sites" of the time -- receipts, chits, ledgers, shipping manifests, birth/death/property records, private letters, junk lots, etc. In this sense, historical research is much like scientific research: myriad observations are made, contextualized, and ordered. From there, hypotheses can be formed and tested against the evidence -- which hypothesis best accounts for the most evidence; which makes the evidence most plausible; which best survives counterclaims (think: falsifiability); etc.
Accepting as sufficient only that evidence which is deemed "authoritative" won't make for good history, only good PR, agit-prop, or religion.
She [Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS] adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet."
But remember -- the intial outcry on Digg wasn't so much about the suppression of the number as about the stealthy suppression (read: account terminations) of the people posting the number. IOW, it started by being all about the children;-)
This is a great beginner's book. And if you're a beginner with no cash it's an even better book, since the first edition is available as per-chapter PDFs. Get 'em here.
Let's not get too carried away with the WalMart comparisons. Meijer is family-controlled. The retail staff is unionized; full-time preferred. The health benefits are great (f'r'instance, a friend of mine got hyperthermic blood work in Germany for his cancer), for part- and full-time. Meijer tends to advance from the ranks. Here in Meijer home office-land, there is rarely an aftertaste of "payoff" when the patriarch, Fred, donates money to the community (unlike with some of the other billionaires in the area, or with WalMart).
Ah yes; 500 PHP and MySQL books...the two I found most valuable were "Spain for Dummies" and "Zen Vegetarian Cooking."
500 seemed an excessive number to me as well, so I took the unorthodox step of actually checking the hits. Of the 301 hits I got when searching Amazon "books" for "php and mysql" there were about 30 titles actually written on the topic of php and mysql; another 30 or so were concerned with Dreamweaver MX and Macromedia MX; perhaps 30 were about web design or MacOSX or optimizing for search engines or.net...the rest were all Dummies books, ranging from GRE prep to DisneyWorld.
Here's a URL for future reference; it's the #1 hit out of 4229 for "Amazon for Dummies".
Fun article for me. 25 years ago or so, I was the original "cable cop" in Michigan, USA (the job title was "system auditor"). This was before it was illegal to "steal" cable services, and the overall thrust of my work was to build a case for legislators.
About 50% of my time was indoors, pulling street-by-street printouts off our Tandem system and cleaning up/verifying account info by going back to original install paperwork. The rest of my time was spent climbing poles, verifying hookups and disconnecting the "non-subscribers." After a year of that, we had enough info to deliver numbers to the statehouse: 4% of all cable viewers weren't paying us for the service. That was enough for the legislators, and cable theft became a mid-range misdemeanor.
So then I started going after the midnight installers offering people "free HBO forever" at the low low price of $100 (or whatever). That was kinda fun...serveral times I was just hours behind these guys, removing service drops while the resident stood by watching, moaning eulogies for their recently departed 100 bucks.
I'm surprised that more ISPs don't have employees like the guy in TFA (or perhaps I'm surprised that we don't hear more about them)...losses due to spam are real, no? [In the case of cable, the "losses" were 99% paper; there was no extra drain on bandwidth, no guarentee these folks would have been paying us otherwise, and no real loss on the converters they were using (our collections folks did just fine charging 4X the cost for unreturned equipment). The only true "loss" was in tech-time, for the rare hookup that caused interference on a distribution line or radiated enough signal to breach FCC rules.]
Is the reason for this apparent lack of interest on the part of ISPs similar to that of the credit card companies during the early online days? Rather than appear inept at providing decent system integrity (easily spoofed card numbers, pitiful account verification, etc.), fraud and abuse were handled quietly, with costs taken off the bottom line. Or is the apparent less-than-vigorous investigation of spammers just part of the "?" step in the profit! formula...where bandwidth lost = cost of investigatory personnel, so screw the inconvenience to customers?
> 1. It won't be in operation all the time Granted; but see next > 2. Proper combustion doesn't lead to much smoke, but you still need to vent the exhaust, as you need to get rid of the CO2. In the "normal" wood-burning world, you've got a couple cords of hardwood seasoning outside and a thermometer on your stack, and it's reasonable to expect 90% of your burns will be low-creosote, low-smoke. But the heat will still be visible (and not just during the day -- take a look around a cold-weather neighborhood during a full moon, and notice all the racoons that gather on rooftops on or near the chimneys;-). And there'll be a smoke trail on the snow; and there'll be the scent of combustion by-products in the air. And if they *ever* screw up and burn green wood or organic waste, they're gonna stand out like a tree in the desert. You're just not going to heat with wood and be anything close to secret.
And the chimney itself means you're never going to be secure. Give me a gallon of ammonia, a couple of old towels, and a chimney -- I can drive you out of your semi-sealed house in no more than a few hours. It's even easier when the chimneytop is at ground level;-) The possibilities are endless...grenade down the chimney; dynamite down the chimney; bio-agent down the chimney; John Tesh CDs beamed down the chimney; etc.
Yeah, my reaction was broad...but I think people like this, who seem to genuinely think they're getting some kind of shelter against a breakdown-of-civilization by hiding away, are totally nuts. Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK, right?
Mind you, I've never experienced the end of the world (except in a Freudian sense;-), but I've read enough science fiction to take a stab at this... if you want to survive, you'll band together with enough others to form a critical mass that can accomplish two basic tasks: food supply (by farming/hunting/gathering) and security (by defensive layering and communication and lottsa ammo). Your structures will be right out in plain sight, so that no one can approach them "by accident." You'll have big nasty signs telling any and all to stay away, and armed sentries/snipers to give the signs some teeth. Whatever electricity you can generate will be used for powering a telegraph, or HTs, or signal lights...any means of communicating that enable to outflank attackers and screw 'em good. Etc.
> I'd be more worried about the access road. Exactly. Chimney, road, solar grid, animal tracks, worn paths...these people will be lucky to last a month if it all does truly go to hell.
Hmm...chimney disguised as white birch; good thing no one will just look for the smoke!
Great FUD though. Just when Slammin' Sammy-noia starts to fade, folks can begin worrying about ebola... in Colorado... in the winter!
Please tell me the owner's illness isn't caused by living cooped up in a semi-sealed environment with no sunlight to work its magic on nasty organizms.
You want to be absolutely secure? Take up permanent residence in a pine box, located about 6 feet under a headstone that reads "I'm over there -->....
Agreed; frustrating. Easy enough to the find the base model, just entered "nx5000 linux" in main page search box, and there I was. And there's SUSE, clearly listed as a option. Clicked every "shopping" link offered, but no way to order the linux.
Worse, I wanted to leave HP a comment about this....but they only accept comments if you enter a name & email addie in the form (don't need anymore sales-mail, thank you very much). Sure, I could fake it, but the whole idea that HP demands that I identify myself just to submit site feedback is nuts, and not worth supporting.
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I use FireLites, too. They must be good; people keep stealing 'em;-)
However, SmartDisk's advertising is just a tad misleading..... The picture in the linked page shows a lovely, calming blue light; the unit you get will sport a rather hideous green light. SmartDisk managed to change the photo on the packaging (not a small task), but somehow can't bring itself to simply swap in the new photo on the web site.
Similarly, the first review they link to speaks in "glowing" terms of the blue light and the excellent carry case....Yes, this was a wonderful case -- some sort of cushiony spandex that ably protected the case from table-top height drops; but the case is no longer included (nor, apparently, even available as an option).
(Yeah, I still carry FireLites, and I still recommend them; I just don't recommend buying them from SmartDisk until they clean up their advertising...oh, wait...maybe that's where all of mine disappeared to...)
"and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
This means they can't be sued for what they say "on the job." Like, they can slam each other in the heat of the moment and not have to worry about defamation suits. Or like, they can say anything --facts, opinions, lies -- they want about *you* and there's not squat you can do about it.
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Why one guy couldn't touch wires inside AND outside my house is anyone's guess.
For the same reason the guy in the body shop doesn't diagnose fuel injectors, and the mechanic doesn't bang out fenders. The tech who comes to your house is geared for tasks like settop changeouts, F-fitting replacements, ground rods, reworking a drop, etc. The line tech is carrying amp parts, tap plates, pole hardware, system maps, etc. and the skills to wield them.
Back when I was running a cable repair dispatch office, our cost on rolling a housecall truck was $N an hour and a tech truck ran close to $N*2.25. Less than 15% of house calls were the result of system problems; do the math.
16GB for $499; 32Gb for $599; 64GB for $699. Add $130 for 3G; carrier will be ATT -- 250MB of data per month for $14.99 or unlimited for $29.99
::sigh:: sign me up, Scotty
I should p'bly mod you down, since you're a bit off-topic -- I'm not aware of a Niven-in-film series/work that needs re-booting. But instead I'll join you in off-topic-land...Ringworld would be a perfect series of texts to adapt to film: Sets would be easy, and Weta would love the character work (just not sure if there'd be an uncanny valley prob with Chmee and Nessus ;-). There's so much published backstory that a screenwriter could go deep into "Known Space" -- showing us the rise and resolution of the Puppeteer's excess heat problem, showing us the Kzin homeworld (with maybe a few vignettes of the Man-Kzin Wars), devoting a few minutes to Phssthpok's heroic voyage to Sol System, etc. Bog, but I'd love to see a Trinoc or Bandersnatch....
The original stories have everything modern films want: hetero-sex (Teela Brown and tons of rishathra), cool boats (Long Shot, Needle, flycycles), battles (esp. in the 3rd Ringworld book), McGuyverisms, and huge "message" potential (nudge-nudge, Mr. Cameron) from the role of ARM in Earth culture, to Flatlanders vs. Belters, to Puppeteers-as-power-elite, to Chmee's journey of learning patience and diplomacy, and the ultimate fun of Niven's alternate Genesis tale of the Pak.
So if any "reboot" is broad enough to attempt restoring science fiction films to former glory, I'm with ya on Ringworld. Or, another great way to go would be either of two sets of work by Herbert -- Destination: Void is tragically undervalued (along with its follow-on works); it's the earliest fiction I know of that tackles construction principles of an AI. Or Herbert's two Jorg McKie books (Whipping Star and mostly The Dosadi Experiment...maybe the Tea Partiers could get excited enough about the Bureau of Sabotage to let the subtle consciousness-raising that Dosadi's solution induces soak in undetected.....
You misread. The relevant paragraph is, "We used a one-dimensional model for this project," says co-author Wladimir Lyra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astrophysics at the Museum. "Three dimensional models are so computationally expensive that we could only follow the evolution of disks for about 100 orbits -- about 1,000 years. We want to see what happens over the entire multimillion year lifetime of a disk."
Another vote for Sonos. It's the wife-friendliest, kid-friendliest, overnight-visitor-friendliest, drunk-out-of-your-mind-friendliest system out there. Install and setup is a breeze -- truly as easy as the diagram portrays. The mesh network is excellent, or you can run it wired. You can source music from your computer/CD player/iPod, or let Sonos grab internet radio streams or services like last.fm, Sirius, Rhapsody, etc. Use Sonos to feed your own amplifier(s), or buy amplified Sonos nodes.
Slashdot covered 'em when they were new; many favorable comments. They were kick-ass at launch; these days they're miles better. Totally modular, so the system can grow as budget/desire dictates. The secure mesh network is excellent, or you can run 'em wired with CAT5. The new handheld controllers are great, or use an iPhone, iPod touch, or computer. (I've never hooked one up for a linux user, but Wine should do the job just fine.)
Small, independent online news outlet? You must be new to this planet. Say hello to the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network and all their friends at TimeWarner. (Lemme guess...you also thought Adult Swim was just a couple of guys jazzin' on Williams Street.)
Simply to demonstrate that it's rarely as easy as "if they'd just do XYZ their world would be rosy"...
By specifying a hard path for the .xml file, your code assumes that users have left their iTunes Library file in the default location. If the library file has been moved -- say, to an external drive along with content files to make the entire library portable -- your code will produce, at best, access to an old .xml file (and at worst, a completely empty .xml file).
On a Mac, the most-recently used iTunes Music Library.xml file is best located by reading the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iApps.plist file for the "iTunesRecentDatabasePaths" item, and extracting the .xml file's path. (For example, run defaults read com.apple.iApps iTunesRecentDatabasePaths in a shell script.) The equivalent item in a Windows "plist" file would be iTunes Library XML Location in the "iTunes Prefs.xml" file in the user's Application Data folder.
You're asking papers to turn back the clock.... Newspapers have used "3rd party ad servers" for quite some time now; regional or nat'l campaigns where rates, art, copy, etc. are provided by an agency and sold under "co-op" programs that split costs between local outlets and national manufacturers/distributors. All the paper has to do is insert local affiliate info, drop the block into their page layout, and keep paperwork on billing; it's a pretty good system. Why force each paper to deal with each advertiser "from scratch"?
The paper itself can also serve the role of 3rd party ad server -- the outstate edition of a large metro daily is going to print different ads (and news) than the city edition (if I live in BFE, what do I care about the prices/products in Big City? Let the ads be responsive to the market where they're being displayed).
Getting rid of 3rd party ad servers would benefit...who? If I'm in New York reading an e-newspaper that's hosted in California, why should the 'net be forced to make all the hops to serve me CA ads? A sharp 3rd party ad serving outfit is going to have a server close to my location, saving hops; it's also going to serve up ads that relate to my "geographic" -- featuring local/regional outlets, promotions, products, etc. The paper gets to concentrate on what it does best -- serve content -- while the ad server folks take care of what they do best -- speed up load times, geo-coordinate the ads, compile stats, assess usage, etc.
Sure, but that just makes next year's goats all the more tasty ;-) We've been doing this for years...come late September we trade one or two goats in exchange for having another one or two rendered, and then it's Jamaican barbeque weekend while we eat the lawn mowers.
Did I miss the elitist newsletter that told us all we had to say science fiction was crap now?
No, you just didn't see Transformers.
You're reifying "history," as though it was a thing with independent existence. History is human-created, following the events it explains. If you attempt to preserve only the "historical" sites in the world, then you have indeed ceded history to the victors -- those who control the means of designating what history is.
All information (evidence) is questionable, either in fact or context; this is something historians learn early-on. What we know about, for instance, early Mercantilism comes not only from contemporary essays, explicit descriptions and official policies, but mainly from poring over all the "abandoned sites" of the time -- receipts, chits, ledgers, shipping manifests, birth/death/property records, private letters, junk lots, etc. In this sense, historical research is much like scientific research: myriad observations are made, contextualized, and ordered. From there, hypotheses can be formed and tested against the evidence -- which hypothesis best accounts for the most evidence; which makes the evidence most plausible; which best survives counterclaims (think: falsifiability); etc.
Accepting as sufficient only that evidence which is deemed "authoritative" won't make for good history, only good PR, agit-prop, or religion.
So, you're saying that this was caused by a built-in backdoor to the NSA, as you said back then?
Good thing Boeing's not using fere software for aircraft simulation tools, space station labs, sub hunters, or moon rockets ;-)
But remember -- the intial outcry on Digg wasn't so much about the suppression of the number as about the stealthy suppression (read: account terminations) of the people posting the number. IOW, it started by being all about the children ;-)
S2This is a great beginner's book. And if you're a beginner with no cash it's an even better book, since the first edition is available as per-chapter PDFs. Get 'em here.
S2Let's not get too carried away with the WalMart comparisons. Meijer is family-controlled. The retail staff is unionized; full-time preferred. The health benefits are great (f'r'instance, a friend of mine got hyperthermic blood work in Germany for his cancer), for part- and full-time. Meijer tends to advance from the ranks. Here in Meijer home office-land, there is rarely an aftertaste of "payoff" when the patriarch, Fred, donates money to the community (unlike with some of the other billionaires in the area, or with WalMart).
In Gnu-terms, Meijer's Not WalMart
Ah yes; 500 PHP and MySQL books...the two I found most valuable were "Spain for Dummies" and "Zen Vegetarian Cooking."
500 seemed an excessive number to me as well, so I took the unorthodox step of actually checking the hits. Of the 301 hits I got when searching Amazon "books" for "php and mysql" there were about 30 titles actually written on the topic of php and mysql; another 30 or so were concerned with Dreamweaver MX and Macromedia MX; perhaps 30 were about web design or MacOSX or optimizing for search engines or .net...the rest were all Dummies books, ranging from GRE prep to DisneyWorld.
Here's a URL for future reference; it's the #1 hit out of 4229 for "Amazon for Dummies".
S2Fun article for me. 25 years ago or so, I was the original "cable cop" in Michigan, USA (the job title was "system auditor"). This was before it was illegal to "steal" cable services, and the overall thrust of my work was to build a case for legislators.
About 50% of my time was indoors, pulling street-by-street printouts off our Tandem system and cleaning up/verifying account info by going back to original install paperwork. The rest of my time was spent climbing poles, verifying hookups and disconnecting the "non-subscribers." After a year of that, we had enough info to deliver numbers to the statehouse: 4% of all cable viewers weren't paying us for the service. That was enough for the legislators, and cable theft became a mid-range misdemeanor.
So then I started going after the midnight installers offering people "free HBO forever" at the low low price of $100 (or whatever). That was kinda fun...serveral times I was just hours behind these guys, removing service drops while the resident stood by watching, moaning eulogies for their recently departed 100 bucks.
I'm surprised that more ISPs don't have employees like the guy in TFA (or perhaps I'm surprised that we don't hear more about them)...losses due to spam are real, no? [In the case of cable, the "losses" were 99% paper; there was no extra drain on bandwidth, no guarentee these folks would have been paying us otherwise, and no real loss on the converters they were using (our collections folks did just fine charging 4X the cost for unreturned equipment). The only true "loss" was in tech-time, for the rare hookup that caused interference on a distribution line or radiated enough signal to breach FCC rules.]
Is the reason for this apparent lack of interest on the part of ISPs similar to that of the credit card companies during the early online days? Rather than appear inept at providing decent system integrity (easily spoofed card numbers, pitiful account verification, etc.), fraud and abuse were handled quietly, with costs taken off the bottom line. Or is the apparent less-than-vigorous investigation of spammers just part of the "?" step in the profit! formula...where bandwidth lost = cost of investigatory personnel, so screw the inconvenience to customers?
> 1. It won't be in operation all the time ;-). And there'll be a smoke trail on the snow; and there'll be the scent of combustion by-products in the air. And if they *ever* screw up and burn green wood or organic waste, they're gonna stand out like a tree in the desert. You're just not going to heat with wood and be anything close to secret.
;-) The possibilities are endless...grenade down the chimney; dynamite down the chimney; bio-agent down the chimney; John Tesh CDs beamed down the chimney; etc.
;-), but I've read enough science fiction to take a stab at this... if you want to survive, you'll band together with enough others to form a critical mass that can accomplish two basic tasks: food supply (by farming/hunting/gathering) and security (by defensive layering and communication and lottsa ammo). Your structures will be right out in plain sight, so that no one can approach them "by accident." You'll have big nasty signs telling any and all to stay away, and armed sentries/snipers to give the signs some teeth. Whatever electricity you can generate will be used for powering a telegraph, or HTs, or signal lights...any means of communicating that enable to outflank attackers and screw 'em good. Etc.
Granted; but see next
> 2. Proper combustion doesn't lead to much smoke, but you still need to vent the exhaust, as you need to get rid of the CO2.
In the "normal" wood-burning world, you've got a couple cords of hardwood seasoning outside and a thermometer on your stack, and it's reasonable to expect 90% of your burns will be low-creosote, low-smoke. But the heat will still be visible (and not just during the day -- take a look around a cold-weather neighborhood during a full moon, and notice all the racoons that gather on rooftops on or near the chimneys
And the chimney itself means you're never going to be secure. Give me a gallon of ammonia, a couple of old towels, and a chimney -- I can drive you out of your semi-sealed house in no more than a few hours. It's even easier when the chimneytop is at ground level
Yeah, my reaction was broad...but I think people like this, who seem to genuinely think they're getting some kind of shelter against a breakdown-of-civilization by hiding away, are totally nuts. Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK, right?
Mind you, I've never experienced the end of the world (except in a Freudian sense
> I'd be more worried about the access road.
Exactly. Chimney, road, solar grid, animal tracks, worn paths...these people will be lucky to last a month if it all does truly go to hell.
Hmm...chimney disguised as white birch; good thing no one will just look for the smoke!
Great FUD though. Just when Slammin' Sammy-noia starts to fade, folks can begin worrying about ebola... in Colorado... in the winter!
Please tell me the owner's illness isn't caused by living cooped up in a semi-sealed environment with no sunlight to work its magic on nasty organizms.
You want to be absolutely secure? Take up permanent residence in a pine box, located about 6 feet under a headstone that reads "I'm over there -->....
Agreed; frustrating. Easy enough to the find the base model, just entered "nx5000 linux" in main page search box, and there I was. And there's SUSE, clearly listed as a option. Clicked every "shopping" link offered, but no way to order the linux.
Worse, I wanted to leave HP a comment about this....but they only accept comments if you enter a name & email addie in the form (don't need anymore sales-mail, thank you very much). Sure, I could fake it, but the whole idea that HP demands that I identify myself just to submit site feedback is nuts, and not worth supporting.
I use FireLites, too. They must be good; people keep stealing 'em ;-)
However, SmartDisk's advertising is just a tad misleading..... The picture in the linked page shows a lovely, calming blue light; the unit you get will sport a rather hideous green light. SmartDisk managed to change the photo on the packaging (not a small task), but somehow can't bring itself to simply swap in the new photo on the web site.
Similarly, the first review they link to speaks in "glowing" terms of the blue light and the excellent carry case....Yes, this was a wonderful case -- some sort of cushiony spandex that ably protected the case from table-top height drops; but the case is no longer included (nor, apparently, even available as an option).
(Yeah, I still carry FireLites, and I still recommend them; I just don't recommend buying them from SmartDisk until they clean up their advertising...oh, wait...maybe that's where all of mine disappeared to...)
"and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
This means they can't be sued for what they say "on the job." Like, they can slam each other in the heat of the moment and not have to worry about defamation suits. Or like, they can say anything --facts, opinions, lies -- they want about *you* and there's not squat you can do about it.
...to fashion an exploit using CSS
I've ever read Slashdot from? That's easy -- the cafeteria at Hope College in Holland, MI. Take your pick; all three qualify as "strangest."
;-)
(P'bly only Taco will appreciate that one