USians like to call themselves American, thinking the term has something to do with a specific country. Everyone else in the world(*) knows that America a name for a single continent that extends from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego.
Hey Anonymous Coward, where do you live? I'm Canadian, I live in Canada. I'm not American. You call a Canadian an "American" and he'll take offense. For those of us that live in North America, 'America' is the generally-agreed upon term for the United States and "American" is the generally-agreed upon term for people who live there.
Justin Watt, a Web engineer, was browsing the Web in his room at the Courtyard Marriott
C'mon editors - "Web Engineer?" What the hell does that mean? It's amazing how engineers allow their title to be attached to every job under the sun these days. You certainly don't hear about 'Web Laywers' or 'Web Dentists.'
PLEASE learn it doesn't fucking matter what you label it.
It DOES matter what you label it. The American public need to understand what arms of the various 'rules enforcement' groups do what, and what those arms can and cannot do and what your rights are when you're talking to them. The first step to granting more rights to TSA is for people to start misunderstanding what TSA does. TSA doesn't secure the border. They don't arrest people. They don't interrogate bombers.
Exactly! This should be proof enough that the TSA does not work.
While I'm no fan of the TSA, perhaps in this example they DID work. Sounds to me that at security they took a look at whatever the hell this thing is/was, correctly declared it as NotBomb, and let it through.
Editors, PLEASE learn your TLAs. The TSA didn't / doesn't detain anyone. The TSA run x-ray machines, search baggage and grope grannies. They have no power of arrest or detention. For that they call law enforcement, such as the police or air marshals. The TSA cannot and do not lead people away in handcuffs.
Dell wants to sell the SERVERS that all these thin-client Wyse terminals hook up to. Racks and racks of servers...
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It isn't about the purchase price, that is not the point. Thin clients should be plug and play--no administration. That is the real savings.
Exactly right. This is why Wyse thin-clients are popular at places like banks. You don't need to have an IT guy driving all over hell's half acre to the 100 branches fixing them. They just work. And as for the endpoint cost, you also need to factor in the server costs.
Most people think it sucks and has gotten worse over the years, not better
That's because 'most people' are idiots with selective memories - Sure, security sucks and there is no free food, but people also forget that in the 'good old days' all the airfares were regulated. There was no shopping around for a good deal because all fares were exactly the same across all the airlines - And air travel was EXPENSIVE - Tickets today, on average, cost less than half of what they did in the 'good ol' days' (indexed to inflation.) If you want a good non-sucky experience, buy a business class ticket. You'll get a big chair, free food and all the perks, and still pay less than you would have back in the day.
Flown 40 years ago? It sucked. Airfares were hugely more expensive than they are today. Today, a family can easily fly to visit Grandma. A generation ago they would never have been able to afford it.
The flight time listed for ATL-> RIC when purchasing tickets is about 90 minutes, but the time from takeoff to touchdown is only 63 minutes.
Do they list 'flight time' or 'travel time?' Usually it's the latter - Travel time. In this scenario, time spent on the tarmac taxiing should be factored into the equation.
Even the littlest kids were expected to hand beer and soda bottles to the workers.
Again, a romanticized view not rooted in reality. A two-year old and four-year old have short attention spans and while they might be interested in handing out beer and soda for a few minutes, very quickly they'll want to do the next thing like heading to the park. Sure, 14 year olds should be mowing the lawn not playing xbox, but young kids need parenting and supervision, and in the 'good ol' days' that would have fallen on the woman.
my Grandfather actually built his own house... sears and roebuck dropped off a flatbed truck of lumber in a then new suburb and him and his coworkers swung hammers one summer in the 50s
Keep in mind that if your grandparents had kids at the time this is a very romanticized view... Likely your grandmother was expected to wrangle the kids all week and then on weekends as well while pops swung hammers building the house - Very tough. Today, there's an expectation of shared childcare, so on weekends you're at the park or swimming lessons or whatever with the kids, which makes finding time to build a house pretty tricky.
Make sure whatever you do, it's wife-friendly (unless your wife is an uber-geek).
If your wife is typical, when she wants to watch TV she wants to press "ON" on a remote, then select the channel that's running Glee. She doesn't want to boot a Linux box, mount a fileshare and browse a bunch of torrents. Similarly, if the house is cold she wants to bump up the thermostat, not telnet into the furnace from a PC that doesn't have a case that lives in the garage.
I agree in this scenario the optics are better, but the math doesn't add up - It's usually the case that the exec bonuses are in the millions of dollars and the salary requirements for employees are in the many tens of millions of dollars - So an exec cutting his salary is a drop in the bucket. When Jobs came back to Apple he wasn't paid a salary yet Apple still laid off many many people.
Well, see, that granny could bring a restricted item into the terminal, and then hand it off to someone going on an international flight beyond the security checkpoint. Segregating out the international flights to a separate section is too hard. So is checking your ID against ticket against their records at the gate.
Huh? In this ridiculous scenario, Granny is handing off to someone *leaving* the country. How is that protecting the border?
That being said, I think the only thing the TSA should be searching for is bombs and guns. Everything else (sharps / baby formula / pictures of guns) should be allowed through. There's nothing a hijacker can do with a sharp any more.
The border exclusion has been a long-standing tradition: the understanding is that in order to control your borders, you need to be able to stop and search people indiscriminately, and without a search warrant.
How exactly is groping a granny who is flying from Des Moines to St. Louis protecting the border?
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USians like to call themselves American, thinking the term has something to do with a specific country. Everyone else in the world(*) knows that America a name for a single continent that extends from Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego.
Hey Anonymous Coward, where do you live? I'm Canadian, I live in Canada. I'm not American. You call a Canadian an "American" and he'll take offense. For those of us that live in North America, 'America' is the generally-agreed upon term for the United States and "American" is the generally-agreed upon term for people who live there.
A USian
A "USian?" WTF is a (an?) "USian?"
even if it 'devalues' your profession
Hey Anonymous Coward, I'm *not* an engineer. I have a bachelor's in Political Science - And no I don't go around caclling myself a 'scientist.'
I fail to see the problem here
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer
In the US and Canada, engineering is defined as a regulated profession whose practice and practitioners are licensed and governed by law.
Justin Watt, a Web engineer, was browsing the Web in his room at the Courtyard Marriott
C'mon editors - "Web Engineer?" What the hell does that mean? It's amazing how engineers allow their title to be attached to every job under the sun these days. You certainly don't hear about 'Web Laywers' or 'Web Dentists.'
...not Slashdot.
this is not a case where such talk led to problems
We don't know that. She went in and was 'interviewed.'
PLEASE learn it doesn't fucking matter what you label it.
It DOES matter what you label it. The American public need to understand what arms of the various 'rules enforcement' groups do what, and what those arms can and cannot do and what your rights are when you're talking to them. The first step to granting more rights to TSA is for people to start misunderstanding what TSA does. TSA doesn't secure the border. They don't arrest people. They don't interrogate bombers.
Exactly! This should be proof enough that the TSA does not work.
While I'm no fan of the TSA, perhaps in this example they DID work. Sounds to me that at security they took a look at whatever the hell this thing is/was, correctly declared it as NotBomb, and let it through.
No, they're murdering infants by the hundreds of thousands.
Provide me a cite that states that hundreds of thousands of infants have been murdered.
For clarity, here is a picture of an infant:
http://www.blankshirts.com/prpics/CAR04.jpg
Editors, PLEASE learn your TLAs. The TSA didn't / doesn't detain anyone. The TSA run x-ray machines, search baggage and grope grannies. They have no power of arrest or detention. For that they call law enforcement, such as the police or air marshals. The TSA cannot and do not lead people away in handcuffs.
Dell wants to sell the SERVERS that all these thin-client Wyse terminals hook up to. Racks and racks of servers...
It isn't about the purchase price, that is not the point. Thin clients should be plug and play--no administration. That is the real savings.
Exactly right. This is why Wyse thin-clients are popular at places like banks. You don't need to have an IT guy driving all over hell's half acre to the 100 branches fixing them. They just work. And as for the endpoint cost, you also need to factor in the server costs.
The submission was of US based carriers
Sigh. OK, here you go:
http://www.delta.com/traveling_checkin/inflight_services/economy_class/economy_comfort.jsp
How about $2500 and everybody can have some fucking leg room?
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/world-traveller-plus/public/en_us
Most people think it sucks and has gotten worse over the years, not better
That's because 'most people' are idiots with selective memories - Sure, security sucks and there is no free food, but people also forget that in the 'good old days' all the airfares were regulated. There was no shopping around for a good deal because all fares were exactly the same across all the airlines - And air travel was EXPENSIVE - Tickets today, on average, cost less than half of what they did in the 'good ol' days' (indexed to inflation.) If you want a good non-sucky experience, buy a business class ticket. You'll get a big chair, free food and all the perks, and still pay less than you would have back in the day.
Flown lately? It sucks
Flown 40 years ago? It sucked. Airfares were hugely more expensive than they are today. Today, a family can easily fly to visit Grandma. A generation ago they would never have been able to afford it.
The flight time listed for ATL-> RIC when purchasing tickets is about 90 minutes, but the time from takeoff to touchdown is only 63 minutes.
Do they list 'flight time' or 'travel time?' Usually it's the latter - Travel time. In this scenario, time spent on the tarmac taxiing should be factored into the equation.
Even the littlest kids were expected to hand beer and soda bottles to the workers.
Again, a romanticized view not rooted in reality. A two-year old and four-year old have short attention spans and while they might be interested in handing out beer and soda for a few minutes, very quickly they'll want to do the next thing like heading to the park. Sure, 14 year olds should be mowing the lawn not playing xbox, but young kids need parenting and supervision, and in the 'good ol' days' that would have fallen on the woman.
my Grandfather actually built his own house... sears and roebuck dropped off a flatbed truck of lumber in a then new suburb and him and his coworkers swung hammers one summer in the 50s
Keep in mind that if your grandparents had kids at the time this is a very romanticized view... Likely your grandmother was expected to wrangle the kids all week and then on weekends as well while pops swung hammers building the house - Very tough. Today, there's an expectation of shared childcare, so on weekends you're at the park or swimming lessons or whatever with the kids, which makes finding time to build a house pretty tricky.
Make sure whatever you do, it's wife-friendly (unless your wife is an uber-geek).
If your wife is typical, when she wants to watch TV she wants to press "ON" on a remote, then select the channel that's running Glee. She doesn't want to boot a Linux box, mount a fileshare and browse a bunch of torrents. Similarly, if the house is cold she wants to bump up the thermostat, not telnet into the furnace from a PC that doesn't have a case that lives in the garage.
An honest CEO would take a cut in his pay
I agree in this scenario the optics are better, but the math doesn't add up - It's usually the case that the exec bonuses are in the millions of dollars and the salary requirements for employees are in the many tens of millions of dollars - So an exec cutting his salary is a drop in the bucket. When Jobs came back to Apple he wasn't paid a salary yet Apple still laid off many many people.
Well, see, that granny could bring a restricted item into the terminal, and then hand it off to someone going on an international flight beyond the security checkpoint. Segregating out the international flights to a separate section is too hard. So is checking your ID against ticket against their records at the gate.
Huh? In this ridiculous scenario, Granny is handing off to someone *leaving* the country. How is that protecting the border?
and no hijackings of airlines
I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings#1960s
That being said, I think the only thing the TSA should be searching for is bombs and guns. Everything else (sharps / baby formula / pictures of guns) should be allowed through. There's nothing a hijacker can do with a sharp any more.
The border exclusion has been a long-standing tradition: the understanding is that in order to control your borders, you need to be able to stop and search people indiscriminately, and without a search warrant.
How exactly is groping a granny who is flying from Des Moines to St. Louis protecting the border?