Was Japan harmed because the US developed the nuclear bomb? Hell yes science is a competition--perhaps academic science is of potential benefit to everyone, but government and corporate science--I'm less optimistic.
"the first step in gaining complete control over the device."
The first step in gaining complete control over the device . . . (?!)
Am I the only person who finds it strange that we don't have complete control over devices we purchase by default? I mean . . . I know, I know, and I know. But still--all of this back and forth effort just seems retarded. Surely there is a better way to do this.
We don't intercept that communication, we are a life insurance company who have records of peoples EPHI. The only way we'd ever see EPHI through outgoing mail is if someone were committing a violation anyway. HIPAA affects everyone, company wide. There is no special license for IT, we are just bound by HIPAA. We work at the company so we are going to see SSNs and EPHI in the course of our daily work anyway. The entire idea of anyone being mad that IT saw their info is ludicrous considering we are the ones that maintain the information systems that house the data. I mean, get real.
I work for a life insurance company and just wanted to point out that any information systems that contain or have access to EPHI (Electronic Protected Health Information) are bound by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) which specifies in more than one part that measures must be taken to ensure EPHI is kept confidential. This INCLUDES monitoring outgoing e-mail.
My company is small, our IT department consist of 4 programmers, a network admin, 2 help desk people, a production operator, 3 business analyst and a manager. We don't want to be bothered with this crap, but we are obligated by law.
From http://www.intel.com/netcomms/columns/jimj10 5.htm
"Q: What is WiMAX? A: WiMAX technology involves microwaves for the transfer of data wirelessly. It can be used for high-speed, wireless networking at distances up to a few miles. The term WiMAX comes from 'Wireless (Wi) Microwave Access (MA).' WiMAX is very similar to Wi-Fi in that it uses the same core technology of wireless modulation developed way back in the '60's and '70's. It's called OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), for those that care about the technical terms.
The real benefit of WiMAX technology is that you can run signals very, very close to each other on wireless channels. You can have super narrow lanes, so you can put a lot of traffic over them and they don't disrupt each other.
Q: How is WiMAX different from Wi-Fi? A: Although the fundamental technology is the same, over time we can add levels of sophistication to WiMAX. Wi-Fi channels occupy a fixed width of the spectrum. But with WiMAX, we're going to enable the traffic lanes - or channels - to get smaller and narrower. This helps service providers seeking to offer wireless last-mile DSL or cable-type service because they can provide a narrower channel that uses less bandwidth and serve more users. You can take what used to be a fixed Wi-Fi lane and make a bunch more lanes and serve more people.
The other big difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX - starting right away - is that we're going to use licensed spectrum to deliver WiMAX. To date, all Wi-Fi technology has been delivered in unlicensed spectrum. WiMAX will use one of the unlicensed frequencies, but we're also supporting two other frequencies that are licensed. What that means is that you can turn up the output power and broadcast longer distances. So where Wi-Fi is something that is measured in hundreds of feet, usually WiMAX will have a very good value proposition and bandwidth up to several miles.
Also WiMAX is designed to be a carrier-grade technology, which requires a higher level of reliability and quality of service than are now available in typical Wi-Fi implementations.
Those fundamental differences make WiMAX more of a metropolitan area access technology versus hotspot."
The trick with this is, people mature in different areas at different rates, [. ..] You think of them as being mature, and then they do or say something unexpected, and you remember just how young they are...
And how well I know! The distance between 18 and 27 can seem immeasurable sometimes. That said, I'm honestly very blessed to have someone who's more mature qualities compliment and/or contrast my own. She really is very intelligent, even more rare is that she is remarkably refined socially and ethically for her years. I find that our differences actually bring us closer. It's easily seen how we are both growing through eachother and don't think for a heartbeat that I'm not more suprised by this than anyone.
I'll be impressed if you can make it work long-term. Being 9 years apart isn't that amazing (my own parents were 10 years apart), but 17 is awfully young to be entering into anything serious. But maybe that's OK.
YOU'LL be impressed?! Hah, I will be too! It's so strange because it was never supposed to develop into anything serious, it just became serious--and in spite of significant efforts to the contrary! There was never some pressure on either side nudging us toward what we've become.
You'd think we couldn't really be on the same page, but it really is remarkable just how in sync we are. Our differences are most apparent when it comes to childhood memories, music, that kinda thing. There are too many examples to even list, but rather than let them become some ugly reminder that certain people would be inclined to frown upon our relationship, we get a kick out of it--it becomes a means to tease, but in a playful and endearing way. It's really nice to have someone not quite in step with my generation, it certainly does give a person a new way of seeing the world.
I shudder to think of re-living the past 8 or so months had I denied myself this opportunity.
I just turned 27 years old. My girlfriend is 18. We started dating a month prior to her 18th birthday. We started having sex two months prior to that.
It's not a pattern with me. I've dated people my own age and older.
It used to really bother me, the entire age difference. From the moment I realized there was an attraction, I made it known immediately that her age was something that I was not likely to be able to overcome. I had initially dismissed the idea out right that anything would ever come of it, but I find that people and time can wear you down, and I'm glad.
Six months have passed and I don't even think about age anymore. It doesn't bother me in the least. In retrospect, the only reason it ever did is because American society has the flawed notion that it is somehow wrong for a 26 year old man to find a 17 year old girl attractive.
I like the way you said that, I've often thought of it in those terms. It's not that I was attracted to someone below the age of "maturity", it's that I was attracted to maturity below the age of consent.
I guess this is as good a first post as any.
(forgive me for being redundant but I messed up trying to back out of a submit that I meant to preview--I looked for a way to delete/edit to no avail)
I just turned 27 years old. My girlfriend is 18. We started dating a month prior to her 18th birthday. We started having sex two months prior to that.
It's not a pattern with me. I've dated people my own age and older.
It used to really bother me, the entire age difference. From the moment I realized there was an attraction, I made it known immediately that her age was something that I was not likely to be able to overcome. I had initially dismissed the idea out right that anything would ever come of it, but I find that people and time can wear you down, and I'm glad.
Six months have passed and I don't even think about age anymore. It doesn't bother me in the least. In retrospect, the only reason it ever did is because American society has the flawed notion that it is somehow wrong for a 26 year old man to find a 17 year old girl attractive.
I like the way you said that, I've often thought of it in those terms. It's not that I was attracted to someone below the age of "maturity", it's that I was attracted to maturity below the age of consent.
I guess this is as good a first post as any.
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... or maybe they could just build a regular data center somewhere else?
"said Hank Williams, an African-American entrepreneur" Seriously? Am I the only one amused by this?
Amazing. They are awfully proud of something that doesn't even include an SSD, thus bottlenecking the entire system.
Was Japan harmed because the US developed the nuclear bomb? Hell yes science is a competition--perhaps academic science is of potential benefit to everyone, but government and corporate science--I'm less optimistic.
"the first step in gaining complete control over the device." The first step in gaining complete control over the device . . . (?!) Am I the only person who finds it strange that we don't have complete control over devices we purchase by default? I mean . . . I know, I know, and I know. But still--all of this back and forth effort just seems retarded. Surely there is a better way to do this.
http://www.ultimaaiera.com/ultima6/ultima-6-project-archon/
We don't intercept that communication, we are a life insurance company who have records of peoples EPHI. The only way we'd ever see EPHI through outgoing mail is if someone were committing a violation anyway. HIPAA affects everyone, company wide. There is no special license for IT, we are just bound by HIPAA. We work at the company so we are going to see SSNs and EPHI in the course of our daily work anyway. The entire idea of anyone being mad that IT saw their info is ludicrous considering we are the ones that maintain the information systems that house the data. I mean, get real.
I work for a life insurance company and just wanted to point out that any information systems that contain or have access to EPHI (Electronic Protected Health Information) are bound by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) which specifies in more than one part that measures must be taken to ensure EPHI is kept confidential. This INCLUDES monitoring outgoing e-mail. My company is small, our IT department consist of 4 programmers, a network admin, 2 help desk people, a production operator, 3 business analyst and a manager. We don't want to be bothered with this crap, but we are obligated by law.
http://www.intel.com/netcomms/columns/jimj105.htm (doh! fixed link)
From0 5.htm
http://www.intel.com/netcomms/columns/jimj1
"Q: What is WiMAX?
A: WiMAX technology involves microwaves for the transfer of data wirelessly. It can be used for high-speed, wireless networking at distances up to a few miles. The term WiMAX comes from 'Wireless (Wi) Microwave Access (MA).' WiMAX is very similar to Wi-Fi in that it uses the same core technology of wireless modulation developed way back in the '60's and '70's. It's called OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), for those that care about the technical terms.
The real benefit of WiMAX technology is that you can run signals very, very close to each other on wireless channels. You can have super narrow lanes, so you can put a lot of traffic over them and they don't disrupt each other.
Q: How is WiMAX different from Wi-Fi?
A: Although the fundamental technology is the same, over time we can add levels of sophistication to WiMAX. Wi-Fi channels occupy a fixed width of the spectrum. But with WiMAX, we're going to enable the traffic lanes - or channels - to get smaller and narrower. This helps service providers seeking to offer wireless last-mile DSL or cable-type service because they can provide a narrower channel that uses less bandwidth and serve more users. You can take what used to be a fixed Wi-Fi lane and make a bunch more lanes and serve more people.
The other big difference between Wi-Fi and WiMAX - starting right away - is that we're going to use licensed spectrum to deliver WiMAX. To date, all Wi-Fi technology has been delivered in unlicensed spectrum. WiMAX will use one of the unlicensed frequencies, but we're also supporting two other frequencies that are licensed. What that means is that you can turn up the output power and broadcast longer distances. So where Wi-Fi is something that is measured in hundreds of feet, usually WiMAX will have a very good value proposition and bandwidth up to several miles.
Also WiMAX is designed to be a carrier-grade technology, which requires a higher level of reliability and quality of service than are now available in typical Wi-Fi implementations.
Those fundamental differences make WiMAX more of a metropolitan area access technology versus hotspot."
(all taken from the article linked above)
In Michigan [. . .] So a 17 year old could "legally" have sex with a 13 year old. 18 with 14, 19 with a 15 year old, 89 with 16 year old.
Note to self: at age 89, move to Michigan.
The trick with this is, people mature in different areas at different rates, [. . .] You think of them as being mature, and then they do or say something unexpected, and you remember just how young they are...
And how well I know! The distance between 18 and 27 can seem immeasurable sometimes. That said, I'm honestly very blessed to have someone who's more mature qualities compliment and/or contrast my own. She really is very intelligent, even more rare is that she is remarkably refined socially and ethically for her years. I find that our differences actually bring us closer. It's easily seen how we are both growing through eachother and don't think for a heartbeat that I'm not more suprised by this than anyone.
I'll be impressed if you can make it work long-term. Being 9 years apart isn't that amazing (my own parents were 10 years apart), but 17 is awfully young to be entering into anything serious. But maybe that's OK.
YOU'LL be impressed?! Hah, I will be too! It's so strange because it was never supposed to develop into anything serious, it just became serious--and in spite of significant efforts to the contrary! There was never some pressure on either side nudging us toward what we've become.
You'd think we couldn't really be on the same page, but it really is remarkable just how in sync we are. Our differences are most apparent when it comes to childhood memories, music, that kinda thing. There are too many examples to even list, but rather than let them become some ugly reminder that certain people would be inclined to frown upon our relationship, we get a kick out of it--it becomes a means to tease, but in a playful and endearing way. It's really nice to have someone not quite in step with my generation, it certainly does give a person a new way of seeing the world.
I shudder to think of re-living the past 8 or so months had I denied myself this opportunity.
I should have been more specific. We started having sex about two months before we were in a committed monogamous relationship.
I just turned 27 years old. My girlfriend is 18. We started dating a month prior to her 18th birthday. We started having sex two months prior to that.
It's not a pattern with me. I've dated people my own age and older.
It used to really bother me, the entire age difference. From the moment I realized there was an attraction, I made it known immediately that her age was something that I was not likely to be able to overcome. I had initially dismissed the idea out right that anything would ever come of it, but I find that people and time can wear you down, and I'm glad.
Six months have passed and I don't even think about age anymore. It doesn't bother me in the least. In retrospect, the only reason it ever did is because American society has the flawed notion that it is somehow wrong for a 26 year old man to find a 17 year old girl attractive.
I like the way you said that, I've often thought of it in those terms. It's not that I was attracted to someone below the age of "maturity", it's that I was attracted to maturity below the age of consent.
I guess this is as good a first post as any.
(forgive me for being redundant but I messed up trying to back out of a submit that I meant to preview--I looked for a way to delete/edit to no avail)
I just turned 27 years old. My girlfriend is 18. We started dating a month prior to her 18th birthday. We started having sex two months prior to that. It's not a pattern with me. I've dated people my own age and older. It used to really bother me, the entire age difference. From the moment I realized there was an attraction, I made it known immediately that her age was something that I was not likely to be able to overcome. I had initially dismissed the idea out right that anything would ever come of it, but I find that people and time can wear you down, and I'm glad. Six months have passed and I don't even think about age anymore. It doesn't bother me in the least. In retrospect, the only reason it ever did is because American society has the flawed notion that it is somehow wrong for a 26 year old man to find a 17 year old girl attractive. I like the way you said that, I've often thought of it in those terms. It's not that I was attracted to someone below the age of "maturity", it's that I was attracted to maturity below the age of consent. I guess this is as good a first post as any.