The fact that we see the phenomenon as "radio" doesn't imply that they are "signals" --- it could be normal behaviour. "Signals" implies intent
Since the source is so far away, the original emissions could have been higher up in the spectrum.
If the same holds true for television -- that people watch the same amount regardless of quality -- it explains why I get 140 channels and can't find a show worth watching.
Doesn't every polling place have observers? In Canada (and other British Commonwealth countries), every political party is entitled to have an volunteer observer called "scrutineer" present at the registration table, and that person also assists in the ballot count.
Does this happen in the US? If not, it seems reasonable to have somebody watching what goes on.
Without neutral observers asserting that the process is fair, it seems pretty certain that it isn't.
The solutions is simple:
"It will be ready any day now" for about 6 months,
"Ready for testing" Followed by 6 months of failures
"Ready" With some sample data.
"Make stuff up" from then on
Has free-thinkers and weirdos ever caused an actual revolution? Changed the course of government that they were able to rid it of corruption and incompetence?
I think it happened in the 1770s in some English colonies, but I'm not a history buff, so I may have it wrong.
FTFS:
"I've never worked a single weekend when I didn't want to"
Employee: "I wanted to work this weekend. I really did"
Interviewer: "Oh, that's good. Why did you want to work this weekend?"
Employee: "Cuz they'd fire my ass otherwise, doofus!"
'nuff said. Sure, some management type work weekends to "set an example" but otherwise I don't buy it.
I was a mid-level IT dept manager for a major newspaper. I was never specifically asked to work overtime, but I often did so because it was my responsibility to ensure production readiness. So yeah, I chose to work, but to say I "wanted to" would be stretching it.
Peace,...
OK, well it may be defined in law somewhere, and it may be possible to remove some item from a result set, but rights or no rights, it is never going to be possible to remove all traces of a document from all storage devices worldwide.
Companies and governments are stupid/greedy/indifferent.
fyp
The purpose of a company is to move money from your pockets to its shareholders.
The purpose of government is to create laws that facilitate the flow.
Until January of this year we had the following running in an industrial environment:
AIX 4.1
OS/3
Dos 6.x (highly customized to run a custom machine)
Novell 3.12
Arcnet network for machine control. (2 of them)
Windows 95 (last version of Windows that had arcnet drivers)
Hardware was mostly Pentium 90 level or similar.
All of the above came delivered as part of a system from the manufacturer, and my predecessor claimed to have had no say in the matter
Several times over the years I was asked "Why not upgrade?"
Answer: New software/hardware did *exactly* what the old did -- no better, no faster and certainly not cheaper.
All of these old systems controlled machinery, and the machinery itself was the rate-determining step.
In the 15 years I ran the department, we lost less than an hour of production time due to computer failure -- and that was when our up-to-date SAN crashed.
So what happened in January?
They closed the plant permanently.
Do a timed release. Once the FOIA request is completed, the requester gets X months of exclusivity to publish, and then it gets released publicly.
Exactly this
This gives the journalist time to get his "scoop" and gives the rest of us the ability to check his work. Under the current system journalists can (and do) leave out information that refutes their bias, while reporting only that information that supports their own opinion. The rest of us need to go to the source in order to form our own opinions.
(I don't live in or do business in the USA. And I like it that way.)
Not to argue, but if you ever clicked an "I agree to the terms and conditions" box, you'll find that your non-negotiable agreement has a clause that specifies a jurisdiction whose laws govern the non-negotiable "contract"
The state of Delaware is very common in these acceptance agreements. Presumably because their laws recognize a checkbox click as acceptance of a binding contract.
Perhaps this is not exactly doing business in the USA, but the overarching greed of American corporations affects us all.
Although it is prudent to be aware of possible modes of failure, and although it is prudent to examine cultural biases that may affect our safety, this particular article seems more like clickbait.
So-called "news" has recently become over-populated with "might happen" sorts of stories, when entire pages are given over to what would amount to a paragraph in a larger article surveying all of the possible scenarios along with a relative measure of their likelihood.
It might also happen (and might not) for several other rather unlikely reasons, none of which this article mentions.
Where you use your credit card is already location tracked.
3 times in the last 10 years my card has been cloned.
The bank in question caught the problem as soon as the 1st bogus transaction was attempted because it did not fit my spending pattern
So why would I worry that about giving them the ability to protect me thus?
Learn to sing, learn to play an instrument, join a choral group, join a band -- have fun!
Paying for the commercialized schlock the record companies are trying to shove down your throats is crazy!
If everyone stopped paying for it, it would go away, and maybe, just maybe something worth listening to might emerge.
But in truth, that ship sailed long, long ago.
<sigh>
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Well, it smelled and acted like a pig-man hybrid anyway
That is truly amazing.
It is difficult to diagnose a dermatologist.
If humans will be working with "robots that can control themselves", we'll need humans that can also control themselves.
The fact that we see the phenomenon as "radio" doesn't imply that they are "signals" --- it could be normal behaviour. "Signals" implies intent
Since the source is so far away, the original emissions could have been higher up in the spectrum.
All the best in 2017
If the same holds true for television -- that people watch the same amount regardless of quality -- it explains why I get 140 channels and can't find a show worth watching.
There are a few 3-rd party tools that will add items.
I can't see them removing cmd.exe altogether
As for adding items to the Explorer context menu, that is just a matter of editing the registry.
Doesn't every polling place have observers? In Canada (and other British Commonwealth countries), every political party is entitled to have an volunteer observer called "scrutineer" present at the registration table, and that person also assists in the ballot count.
Does this happen in the US?
If not, it seems reasonable to have somebody watching what goes on.
Without neutral observers asserting that the process is fair, it seems pretty certain that it isn't.
The solutions is simple:
"It will be ready any day now" for about 6 months,
"Ready for testing" Followed by 6 months of failures
"Ready" With some sample data.
"Make stuff up" from then on
It even appeared on /.
A Conservative minority just means another election in a few weeks. Trudeau and Mulcair aren't going to work with Harper
Or with each other, unfortunately.
I paid a fee to a cable company which gives me the right to watch any movie they are currently playing.
It should not matter where I get it from.
Has free-thinkers and weirdos ever caused an actual revolution? Changed the course of government that they were able to rid it of corruption and incompetence?
I think it happened in the 1770s in some English colonies, but I'm not a history buff, so I may have it wrong.
I really did
FTFS:
"I've never worked a single weekend when I didn't want to"
Employee: "I wanted to work this weekend. I really did"
Interviewer: "Oh, that's good. Why did you want to work this weekend?"
Employee: "Cuz they'd fire my ass otherwise, doofus!"
'nuff said. Sure, some management type work weekends to "set an example" but otherwise I don't buy it.
I was a mid-level IT dept manager for a major newspaper. I was never specifically asked to work overtime, but I often did so because it was my responsibility to ensure production readiness. So yeah, I chose to work, but to say I "wanted to" would be stretching it.
Peace,...
OK, well it may be defined in law somewhere, and it may be possible to remove some item from a result set, but rights or no rights, it is never going to be possible to remove all traces of a document from all storage devices worldwide.
live with it.
Companies and governments are stupid/greedy/indifferent.
fyp
The purpose of a company is to move money from your pockets to its shareholders.
The purpose of government is to create laws that facilitate the flow.
Constitutions notwithstanding.
I'd get fired too
Until January of this year we had the following running in an industrial environment:
AIX 4.1
OS/3
Dos 6.x (highly customized to run a custom machine)
Novell 3.12
Arcnet network for machine control. (2 of them)
Windows 95 (last version of Windows that had arcnet drivers) Hardware was mostly Pentium 90 level or similar.
All of the above came delivered as part of a system from the manufacturer, and my predecessor claimed to have had no say in the matter
Several times over the years I was asked "Why not upgrade?"
Answer: New software/hardware did *exactly* what the old did -- no better, no faster and certainly not cheaper.
All of these old systems controlled machinery, and the machinery itself was the rate-determining step.
In the 15 years I ran the department, we lost less than an hour of production time due to computer failure -- and that was when our up-to-date SAN crashed.
So what happened in January?
They closed the plant permanently.
Do a timed release. Once the FOIA request is completed, the requester gets X months of exclusivity to publish, and then it gets released publicly.
Exactly this
This gives the journalist time to get his "scoop" and gives the rest of us the ability to check his work. Under the current system journalists can (and do) leave out information that refutes their bias, while reporting only that information that supports their own opinion. The rest of us need to go to the source in order to form our own opinions.
(I don't live in or do business in the USA. And I like it that way.)
Not to argue, but if you ever clicked an "I agree to the terms and conditions" box, you'll find that your non-negotiable agreement has a clause that specifies a jurisdiction whose laws govern the non-negotiable "contract"
The state of Delaware is very common in these acceptance agreements. Presumably because their laws recognize a checkbox click as acceptance of a binding contract.
Perhaps this is not exactly doing business in the USA, but the overarching greed of American corporations affects us all.
You send them an email to tell them how to log in?
That's one of the classic BOFH jokes.
For the very young among us: The Bastard operator from Hell archive
My TV doesn't tell me that, it tells me it's flat, with some bad indicators.
My TV is also flat, but the indicators all work
Although it is prudent to be aware of possible modes of failure, and although it is prudent to examine cultural biases that may affect our safety, this particular article seems more like clickbait.
So-called "news" has recently become over-populated with "might happen" sorts of stories, when entire pages are given over to what would amount to a paragraph in a larger article surveying all of the possible scenarios along with a relative measure of their likelihood.
It might also happen (and might not) for several other rather unlikely reasons, none of which this article mentions.
or truthful
Where you use your credit card is already location tracked.
3 times in the last 10 years my card has been cloned.
The bank in question caught the problem as soon as the 1st bogus transaction was attempted because it did not fit my spending pattern
So why would I worry that about giving them the ability to protect me thus?
Learn to sing, learn to play an instrument, join a choral group, join a band -- have fun!
Paying for the commercialized schlock the record companies are trying to shove down your throats is crazy!
If everyone stopped paying for it, it would go away, and maybe, just maybe something worth listening to might emerge.
But in truth, that ship sailed long, long ago.
<sigh>