How come people don't seem to realize that the Motorola version of Android has had voice commands for years? Apple just added a bit of analysis and claimed they invented it. About a day after the 4S came out, someone released one that was very close. There are a number of them now - vlingo, theres, iris, android assistant, etc. I'm not impressed by any of them. I'm also a command line guy. Still, Nurse Chapel... nice!
Directnic.com. I've used them for well over a decade. Not even Hurricane Katrina took them offline and that hit right where they are in New Orleans. I've never had a problem with them, they even offer SSL certificates. They are also very paranoid about transfers.
There is no such thing as a secure local log, and pretending otherwise is shameful.
Why do you think that? Hook up a hard copy character at a time terminal and log to that. It's as secure as where it is as long as it has paper. You should have good physical security. There are also ways to have write once devices. The point is, if you are looking at it locally and everything is signed and depends on a chain, you can be sure that what you are looking at is secure even if it is local. You don't have to deal with the big mother central log server. If you have missing timeline that's another thing. However if I see something happened yesterday and I have logs back a week, I'll find you with their new system. If you delete something I'll know that too. As it is right now I'd have no clue. To mitigate that we put it into a database in realtime and to multiple machines. Still not impossible but a whole lot harder to hide what you did. I've caught even very experienced people.
The point is the old syslog is dated and something better should replace it. If you have a better idea, let's hear it.
If you're going to be post stuff that is easily checked out you should get your facts right. The members of Congress get the same health care deal as all other Federal employees, no more no less. Congressional pensions are not as you say. To quote my cite: "For example, a member of Congress who worked for 22 years and had a top three-year average salary of $153,900 would be eligible for a pension payment of $84,645 per year." I'll give you the sexual harassment one. The only members of Congress I'm aware of that get publicly funded jet rides for normal travel are the Vice President (as presiding officer of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House who is 2nd in line for the Presidency and that is at the insistence of the Secret Service. All regular members of Congress such as my Oregon Senators and Representatives take commercial jets to travel between here and DC.
Ok, Let's start with the health care deal. Check out http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/23/opinion/main6324480.shtml . You can bet, if they get it, others will too. The point is, if it is so wonderful, why the exemption. Perhaps all of those articles out there about this are just wrong? We would know if Obama really was as transparent about these things as he said he would be. Instead just yesterday I found out a couple of Congressmen want to introduce legislation to hide his stuff for many years. Used to be done with an exec order. Probably Way TMI for this discussion.
Now, for the pension bit. Look at the article you cite. It says to take the top earning three years and average it. Then the formula. Then give the example for a typical career politician, which is actually a lot closer to a typical government worker. Same text I saw in a recent class about that. That third year for a Representative would be a zero. If you want the gory details and have a beer or two, here it is http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/retirement.pdf . I called up my source on that. Turns out he was just wrong. Here's a better citation -http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/retirement_for_members.shtml . You're right, I should have checked that one out better.
The one I had in mind for the flights was Peleosi. It was quite a bill. As for a security issue, that's hog wash. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/11/john-boehner-says-hell-fly-com.html . She abused it and she knows it. She also doesn't care. They are attacking General Aviation as a rich thing. It isn't. It's economical for time as well as tends to keep company secrets secret. Nothing can be done on a commercial jet other than as an executive mailing tube. You never know who is sitting next to you. Like the yatch industry they killed a number of years ago, they will probably do the same thing to the aviation industry. Remember the Yatch bit? You know, only "rich" people have them. Tax it. Rich people stopped buying them cold. BTW, according to recent stuff it seems that they may define "rich" as anyone making over $80,000. In Clinton's time I was able to defend the statement that "Rich" was making over $40,000. That was in 1993 dollars.
The first step will be to get Congress to be subject to the same laws that they pass for all of us. For example, they are NOT subject to Obamacare. Not subject to Sexual Harassment. One term in Congress? You get a pension at your current pay rate for life. This is all BS. I suppose you could call them Royalty. I could see if a Congressman has been there for 40 years, give him the 80%. There won't be that many of them. But one term? Please. Also, take their publicly funded jet rides. They think that Corporate people don't need them, they don't need them either. Take a commercial jet.
Then move onto how public CEOs can rob a company blind, and get away with it. HP is a good example of how they hired a European, he came over and ran it off a cliff to get fired, and since he's being fired gets his 4 million severance pay in addition to many other things. HP was really taken for a ride. They are taking as much as they can as fast as they can. Many of you say the stockholders can stop it. I've been one for years. They don't care at all what we think. They can do as they please, and do. Drain pension funds, health care funds, etc.. Yet I don't want to hit guys that busted their balls to create a company. They should get rewarded. I.e. the late Mr. Jobs for example. Love him or hate him, he should have been rewarded.
We've had html since the 1960s. The US Military created it. He didn't invent the web either. Usenet and many other forms were well in action long before BL came on the scene. He "Invented" putting a picture into a document, which he didn't even do that. Xerox did that first. He just came up wtih tieing it all together in a browser and port 80 instead of the other ports at the time like 1500. Big deal. It was obvious and not patenable because of that.
I used to have these hangups. I got over it long ago. The truth is, even in your company they may promote you to another part of the company tomorrow. Your friends will be in the same situation. The company will do what is in their best interest, which may be to keep you right where you are for the next 10 years or more. Further your career.
Along with that, you have to do your homework. Is this really a good opportunity? Can you expect your position to be there in a year? I.e. will the company be there in a year. Just do your best guess. People at the American company Solyndra had no clue until they got their termination notice. Even the President was there recently, pumped in 1/2 billion USD. Bankupt in less than a month. That may happen where you are. I left a company in the early 1990s and 6 months later everyone else was laid off. They moved the operation from Virginia (USA) to Finland. All but I think one guy was terminated after the product was developed here and supported for years.
You do owe it to yourself to do the research and make a decision. Also, understand that the decision is yours. Don't blame anyone on slashdot, or a relative.
Best of luck
Illegal porn? Things that should never see the light of day again, you need to make sure it's gone. Take the time and use the Linux Shred command, 2 passes, third pass zeros. This will do a very good job at keeping the data safe. Military grade is 7 times, however I think that is way overkill. I know they can get it up to 3 writes ago. It's very expensive but they can do it. If it's just crap, you may want to just destroy the interface board or remove it. Without an interface board, that makes it very difficult to get at the data. They know that even if they get the board, it may be a wiped disk. If your life depends on the data not being exposed, take the time and do it right. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean porn or government secrets. Sensitive data could be your financial records, tax returns, things like that. If a thief has your tax return, he can do you a lot of harm. Don't worry about them caring, they really don't care about you or what you go through either. IMHO they should be executed by hanging as soon as they are sure they are the ones doing the id theft.
By the way, I'm in the same boat. I have a bunch of old drives to get rid of. Same problem. For the drives I can't write to anymore because I have nothing to interface to it, I'm taking them apart and drilling the disks. Get a nice cobolt (Not cobolt brand, a cobolt drill) drill at Lowes or Home Depot. They go through it like melted butter. Yes, I've done this a few times already.
I am a judge where I grew up. I know all the schools in the county. I was shocked to find out that even at the magnet school for science and technology that the science classes were being taught mostly by liberal arts teachers. That is, social studies and english teachers. They told me to be honest with my comments. No PC here. I was. When I saw crap I commented as to why it was wrong and how to find out how to do it right. So many were being led into just wrong thinking. Then once in a while I would come across a true gem. Someone that is truly a scientist. Makes it all worth while. I haven't seen one for about 3 years. This year is coming right up.
Sure, his example worked in a world almost devoid of patents. I bet Microsoft has enough patents to hold the public by the short hairs for years. I'm sure they will resort to all kinds of stuff to survive. Just like SCO tried to do. No doubt, he's a very smart guy. Unfortunately he still has a lot to learn.
Use what is necessary. If Windows is the only alternative then use it for that one thing. Does your secretary have to have windows? I bet everything she needs to do she could do with a Linux desktop. As an added bonus she won't be dealing with taking care of the malware that is still so pervasive on Windows. To me not dealing with all that stuff makes Windows a very stupid decision unless there is no alternative. Even for you I hope you are taking precautions to make sure your stuff stays with you. A firewall in front and sniffers to see if someone has compromised your machine. Just Friday I found a Win 7 machine that was compromised that had anti virus software and all kinds of government hardening precautions. We isolated the disk, nothing shows up with virus scans. Turn it back on and see some strange processes start up.
As for interacting with other agencies, I've been using a Linux desktop since it was available. For at least the past 10 years I've sent files to Windows people and they have never known the difference. I've also fixed Excel files that Windows, even Microsoft themselves couldn't fix. I just brought it up in the Linux spreadsheet program, saved it and it was ok again. Didn't lose a thing. It did complain that it had a Character 0 in the file where it didn't expect it. To me Microsoft shouldn't have thrown the whole file away just because of that. I was the last ditch effort. The guy was about to cry. He had been working on that spreadsheet for 3 weeks and it had saved it so he deleted his backup. Me - No problem.
I'm curious, what program are you using that is available only on Windows? In the past it seems to me they were only available under Linux or Unix. Most scientific stuff is under Unix/Linux. When I see Windows trying to do a Unix/Linux job I ask about it. Often the scientists complain about it. Crashing, losing data, etc. It just isn't up to the task. Sometimes they will even tell me that they were told to use Windows by management. I felt long ago that Microsoft should sell their OS and move all their apps to Linux. That would really make a lot of sense.
The egg came first. History tells us the answer to long lasting peace. Conditions have to deteriate to a certain level before they lose the desire to fight. They obviously have it too nice over there. I think they need to lose at least 25% more people, perhaps even 50% more before they will become civilized. This has to be done by the indiginous people. Only then will they see how terrible it is and stop it. Then it's just maintenance for a decade or so. Even in the US, we really could use the duel. Get rid of some crazy people.
An accident is not assured. I don't want to seem like a troll, however this seems to convenient. There is happenstance. However I find it way to coincidental that just as Obama announces that he wants to allow new off shore drilling we have a major accident. There hasn't been a problem for decades. I know militant environmentalists aren't above doing something like that. After all, they drill in some of the most sensitive environmental areas in the world and there hasn't been a problem. I learned this from testimony from the last administration, from representatives in Louisiana about their sensitive areas. I know people who worked down there after the Hurricane and they said even spilling Diesel for a generator is a big deal.
This is not directed to you... I just want to state it for others reading - Oil is natural by definition. Man didn't make it. Some people seem to forget that.
Depends on if you can study by yourself or not. I used to be the guy at the student help clinic... about 25 years ago. If you can or you want to try it, go to a campus book store. You will usually find off to the side a used book area. They often have old books and more importantly the keys. Mathematics builds on previous courses. The thing to do is to find out where you are. I'd try an algebra book and geometry. Select 10 questions (or even 5) from the chapters and see how you do with the key. Of course be honest with yourself, make sure you master those chapters. Then you can probably sell those books back to the store or put them on flea bay. Now you are ready to do the calculus. Buy a book(s) and key again. Same thing. Do 10 questions and see how you do. If you get 8 right, that's 80% of course. You are going to need more like 9/10 right. Statistics is tougher. I bought many books and keys for the Engineering grade statistics. That's all I did during a summer course. I passed it with a 95%. Problems, problems, problems. Just keep doing them and you will know it. This by the way is how to learn. Something they don't seem to teach in school. If you are having trouble, feel free to seek out campus help. Most schools have a tutor area or sometimes it's called a clinic. As a guy who used to run one of those clinics, please do your part. That is, don't expect them to be a test fairy and somehow by the mere fact you were there, you know it. That may not be you, however we had a lot of people that hadn't even looked at the chapter and thought we would teach them. I found there is no short cut for advanced mathematics. You have to train your mind how to do this stuff.
That CO2 must warm the earth can also be concluded directly by looking at the absorbtion bands of CO2. You could even calculate the approximate effect (though not the feedback loops) from this, the atmospheric and distribution of CO2 and from the distribution of the electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere.
You seem to know what you are talking about. Can you point to a demonstration that shows CO2 increases temperature? Simple experiment will do.
I remember people being scared to death, to death I tell you about this happening no later than 1995. Sure, they were making what seemed to be discoveries by leaps and bounds. They even had me worried for a while there. Then they hit a brick wall.
On the other hand, I can remember a guy that bought a late 1990s or early 2000s Lincoln Navigator and he thought it was smarter than he is. Knowing the guy for years he was probably right. So I guess it is relative in some ways. I still think there is no need to worry. Go back to sleep.
I have been to their site probably hundreds of times over the past 15 years. We have onsite dudes as well. Not one single time do I remember one word about it. Make it easy guys, advertise it, at least say something.
Dev is the development test bed. Test, they had better have what it is they want to do all on paper, even if that is an electronic document. How to install _____, how to configure _____, how to test that ______ is working. Follow it in the test environment and if it works, move to production. We often copy the production machine to the test machine bed. Just copy the san disk. If you do it in a Xen environment it is even easier.
Why go through all of this? What happens if the production machine or even the site is destroyed? What happens if everyone in your building is hit with some new bug that kills everyone or the building being built badly collapses and kills everyone? I have also found it is very useful to have these records. Even for projects that I did 10 or 15 years ago I can't remember stuff any more. It also comes in useful if something is set wrong. Was it that way to begin with or did the software upgrade break something? I've put people from some very large organizations on the spot because I could pinpoint when something was changed on their part and not documented.
Finally, it is good to keep developers off the production box. They may put something on there that they are not supposed to. I know, I used to do it and so did all of my other developer friends. That stuff has been known to be used by attackers.
I own my own Bonanza. There are restrictions that I think you should have mentioned. I'm in the Washington DC area so there is the ADIZ, now called the Special Flight Rules Area and very restricted Flight Restricted Zone 10 mile radius from DCA. This is a restriction in search of a problem. That is, NO GA plane on 911 was used and yet it is the GA airplanes can't fly over Washington with very few exceptions. For those 10 miles to 30 miles out from DCA, it's a PIA. I've been delayed for 45 minutes while I go through the required filing of a flight plan and then call to get a transponder code. Then if the man (also known right now as President Obama or POTUS), goes some place for a visit, they put these same stupid restrictive rules around wherever he goes. This has busted many an innocent pilot in the name of "security". Even the pilot carrying former President GHW Bush to see his son when he was President - GW Bush in Maine was busted. How stupid. I thought they would give him an exception. Nope.
They need to remove the SFRA over Washington and the silly restrictions around the POTUS. Nobody has used a GA aircraft in a terrorist attack anywhere in the world. All of these restrictions is just a waste of money and a compromise on freedom for security. We don't even get the security.
There is also a move to put TSA style restrictions at an airport near you. Certainly very likely to be put in place at least one of the airports that you fly into. That means you wouldn't be able to back your car up to your 182 anymore... No Sirree! You would have to go to a dude to make you take your shoes off, go through the normal screening. We're fighting it. I sincerely hope it doesn't happen. Totally useless to screen us. They would spend their money FAR better to secure our boarder with Mexico instead. As bad as normal cops that pull people over for speeding instead of busting people breaking into houses or putting Identity thieves in jail.
Why stop there? Since you don't want to think any, why are we dealing with 60 seconds to a minute, 60 minutes to an hour then suddenly 24 hours to a day? Then 7 days make up a week? Then 4 weeks, no sometimes it's 5 week... er something makes up a month. 12 months that vary in days make up a year. But it isn't really a year, we need a leap day every 4 years, except for centuries, except for 2000 for some reason. WTF?
Yes, we need seconds, 10 seconds make a minute, 10 minutes make an hour, 10 hours make a day, 10 days make a week and 10 weeks make a year. So simple even a cave man could do it.
We are no where near ready to do something about an asteroid about to hit us. First off, we would get possibly less than a day's notice. Some that have nearly hit us recently we didn't even know about until it had passed us. Then lots of thought would have to be put on how to properly address the threat. Do nothing, if do something, what do we do? Who would do it? If it had to hit a continent, that would be Africa. Nothing significant is down there anyhow, it's almost all desert. In fact Saharan sand would probably be the best thing it could hit.. We may also get rid of a pirate problem.
Simple enough for me to understand? That's funny. I'm dumbing things down so even you can understand and I'm obviously failing at it. Maybe you are smarter than I thought and that's the problem. Sometimes I underestimate people. Maybe you have just had too much kool aid, if you are old enough to remember that. It is meant to be funny by the way even though it was a very brutal act.
Conspiracy theories? Those are from the left mostly. With Ozone, I know the NASA scientists very well that tried to measure the hole and found it wasn't there. It was supposed to be a crises until at least 2020. It was a hoax to the point that almost nobody even remembers it now. I remember the plans for blimps and such to "fix the problem." It was all scrapped when the hoax was exposed. Just type in cfc hoax. Some interesting stuff comes up that may be right. I remember having these discussions/arguments over how 1999 there would be no ozone up there and we would all be dead (this was in 1992). I remember a woman in particular that was fighting as if her life depended on it and really believed it strongly. All BS I said. History showed I was totally right. Last I knew she is a housewife.
As for this topic, read the news today? The Russians found that they deleted the data from them that they didn't agree with as well. What other revelation will there be? Complete admission this is all a hoax? Let me focus this for you, read this - http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34896 if you dare. Tough to dispute that. It's measurable and verifiable (and undeniable for most people). The question is are you going to continue to believe the con job or not. As for the scientists, they will simply say that they were lied to and salvage their own careers. Others will say it was someone insignificant that changed or deleted the data they were using and throw them under the bus. I've seen that before. I've even seen history rewritten to save certain people. Then there is Hansen at Goddard that said it was a year 2000 bug that made his findings wrong for the hottest decade/year for example. Don't know if I sent this to you or not - http://climateaudit.org/2007/08/08/a-new-leaderboard-at-the-us-open/ Interesting, eh?
As for these posts, yea, it's stale. You would be surprised at how they are read, however. I sometimes get responses from stuff I wrote even 6 months or more out. As if I would be the least bit interested by then. I shouldn't have responded in the first place and probably shouldn't have responded here. I know better and I didn't mean to pick on you, it was just right there to hit reply and you were the lucky guy. It was there mocking me! Just kidding. It is hard sometimes to not say anything. Especially when I see a con job going on. Some may later say how come nobody said something? We did. Scientists from around the world have raised very serious questions about this topic. They (people like you) were too busy telling us we are stupid or don't understand or had an agenda or pick some other distraction aimed to discredit. I've even been brutally persecuted before for being right. It's no fun. Sometimes they admit it and pay for their error. I've also been wrong before, however I'm very careful to make sure I don't trash them. Consider what they are saying. They may be right. However a sign that they are wrong is when you find data is missing. Especially data contrary to their point. Ignore it perhaps at the risk of your reputation. If you have something that is very compelling to show me that I'm wrong, please forward it. I'm still willing to consider it, even against my better judgement.
They don't have sufficient records to tell one way or the other for the 1930s globally I understand. Never the less they had to wait and try again for the 2000s. Maybe that will be warmer than the 1930s. Odd how you seem to want to dismiss this and everything else so easily.
I'm afraid you really are part of the cult if you honestly can sit there and tell me they don't tell you what to think. How can you possibly say that? Were you not around the last 8 years when they accused Bush of all kinds of stuff because they didn't agree with them? That is, the very things they admit to in their e-mails? The e-mails show worldwide how if you don't agree with them, they actively took steps to discredit you, defund you, and so on. True, they don't come to your house and beat you up (as far as I know), they stop short of that. I don't know what to say for you thinking they are experts when they violate basic rules for science. Deleting data that they don't agree with and such.
You're really underestimating Al's position. I remember him forcing people out at the World Weather Bureau in the early 1990s. Anyone that disagreed with his "man made global warming". He's no acolyte. If he isn't pope, he is at least a cardinal or bishop... or something. Not sure of the church rankings (which I'm sure doesn't surprise you).
True, we are dumping an awful lot of CO2 into the world. That is a concern. Another ironic part are the "environmentalists" not allowing the forest service to thin out forests. Instead they allow them to build up "spindly", perfect fire wood. Then they burn and burn very well. Ugh, I'd better stop. The environmentalists mean well, they are just often full of it. You need to understand water vapours part in the heating equation. This is fairly basic and you don't seem to know it.
I just hope that out of all of this they finally decide to do a real scientific study on the matter. No throwing out of data, no intimidation, no cutting funding if they don't agree with the results. You know, real science. I'm not sure it can be done since many of the top people would be afraid to say the Emperor has no clothes! Remember the ozone bit from the 1990s? That was a crisis too. Then when they went to measure it, it wasn't even there. Junk science. I understand DuPont had a hand in that hoax. Just type in "dupont freon hoax" into google... Back in the 1990s that was "settled science" too. I pointed out problems back then too... and here we are again.
If we can honestly and truly do something about it, that's one thing. If we spend trillions and it means nothing, that's another. It's work fair to make certain people very rich. We can do without that.
I don't need to educate myself any better. I'm sure my education is superior to yours in this area. I've been at this for over 30 years. I suppose you think oil comes from Dinosaurs themselves for example. It doesn't. That's a common misconception from a Sinclair advertisement from the 1930s. Hard to kill that one. It is because I have a superior education that I know about reserves being refilled and the fact that they may be wrong on their timing on how oil is formed. Clearly not politically correct. Neither was more oil back in the 1970s. Environmentalist "scientists" used to tell us we would be totally out of oil by 1982. There is Congressional testimony on this. They even had advertisements on TV about this. "We will be all out of oil by the time I'm 16 (showing a kid about 8 years old)." Then by 1995 and so on. 2011 was the last "we are out of oil" prediction. I think somewhere I read where they want to say 2020 is the next one.
As for CO2, you still seem to miss the point. Is CO2 the cause or a symptom? That's the question. If it's a symptom then eliminating it does absolutely no good. If you look at the UN report of 1992, it talks about global warming. No mention of man. Next year suddenly without any proof whatsoever, man is to blame. HUH? That WTH is this is what concerns anyone that has a scientific background. They have been trying to hammer in some "proof" ever since. They should do it right or shut up. The other case in point are these e-mails that show proof they can't make their case and they know it. I remember Hanson of Goddard Space Flight Center testified the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. Then a researcher found out he was wrong. The 1930s were. Hansen said it was a year 2000 bug. Was it a bug or did he lie? Seems hard to believe such a "scientist" would make such a mistake. He received a Nobel prize by the way. Just like Algore did. See a pattern here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen Sounds like a great guy, eh? Ok, look here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3563532/The-world-has-never-seen-such-freezing-heat.html How embarrassing.
The question is are you a religious member of the "man causing global warming" church or not. Open mind or not. My mind is open, if you say man is causing GW, prove it. Use data that we can look at and models we can look at. Taking someone's word for it has never been acceptable scientifically. Only for religions do we have to do that. Like a religion, if you believe in it, a few make a lot of money off of your belief. Algore wants to be the pope of that religion. Like a religion you expect everyone else to just accept it and if we don't we're dumb, heretics, etc.
Seems CO2 as a heating agent is no more scientifically based than the fact plants need it to survive and a greenhouse is hot. Plants put out a lot of water vapour, trapping the heat. Nothing to do with CO2. This misconception is at the heart of their argument. I could bring up more stuff, however you will either see my point by now or you'll never see it.
I don't want to alienate you or offend you, however it is clear that you have a lot to learn. Here for example - http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/1022 . "Fossil fuels" was originally put out there because they felt the oil today was from reserves that were from the time of the Dinosaurs. There is nothing fossil about them and the term is more of a guess than anything. Today there is evidence that they don't necessarily have to be that old. In fact, some old wells that dried up in the 1950s are producing again. This is way to deep of a topic for here. It is also another area that isn't PC. Some environmentalists don't want man to use anything. Take us to the stone age. They give good environmentalists a bad name.
Swift fuels (company based out of a college in Indiana I think) are likely to come out and take over the old petroleum based vehicles. In that case, we are using stuff that is renewable by definition. They also emit CO2 and under the proposed legislation, they pollute even though it is clear they don't. Government (sometimes called "the man") often does stupid things especially when it is based on half baked science. All a lot of us are saying is if you want to spend 100s of billions, perhaps trillions of Dollars world wide, you had better be damn sure of what you are saying and doing. Fudging data, omitting data, their other conduct is reprehensible in that regard. Clearly unscientific, or it could and would stand on its own. It's science after all. You know, based on facts. The science isn't "settled" and they know it as shown in their e-mail.
My guess is that Man isn't causing GW to the point that we could do something about it. Their proposals for the most part confirm that. They still want us to spend billions, however. If they can show we are to blame and we could do something about it, that is another thing. We should do that. As things are, it is looking more and more like THE largest case of scientific fraud EVER perpetrated on mankind. I have my reasons for pointing out Al Gore. Very good reasons. It is also very important to not confuse him with a scientist. He isn't, not even close. In Vietnam he was a son of a Senator and was a news paper reporter. Then he was a news paper reporter after he departed the Army. Then he rode his father's coattails into the Senate. Otherwise he would still be a nobody.
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How come people don't seem to realize that the Motorola version of Android has had voice commands for years? Apple just added a bit of analysis and claimed they invented it. About a day after the 4S came out, someone released one that was very close. There are a number of them now - vlingo, theres, iris, android assistant, etc. I'm not impressed by any of them. I'm also a command line guy. Still, Nurse Chapel... nice!
Directnic.com. I've used them for well over a decade. Not even Hurricane Katrina took them offline and that hit right where they are in New Orleans. I've never had a problem with them, they even offer SSL certificates. They are also very paranoid about transfers.
There is no such thing as a secure local log, and pretending otherwise is shameful.
Why do you think that? Hook up a hard copy character at a time terminal and log to that. It's as secure as where it is as long as it has paper. You should have good physical security. There are also ways to have write once devices. The point is, if you are looking at it locally and everything is signed and depends on a chain, you can be sure that what you are looking at is secure even if it is local. You don't have to deal with the big mother central log server. If you have missing timeline that's another thing. However if I see something happened yesterday and I have logs back a week, I'll find you with their new system. If you delete something I'll know that too. As it is right now I'd have no clue. To mitigate that we put it into a database in realtime and to multiple machines. Still not impossible but a whole lot harder to hide what you did. I've caught even very experienced people.
The point is the old syslog is dated and something better should replace it. If you have a better idea, let's hear it.
If you're going to be post stuff that is easily checked out you should get your facts right. The members of Congress get the same health care deal as all other Federal employees, no more no less. Congressional pensions are not as you say. To quote my cite: "For example, a member of Congress who worked for 22 years and had a top three-year average salary of $153,900 would be eligible for a pension payment of $84,645 per year." I'll give you the sexual harassment one. The only members of Congress I'm aware of that get publicly funded jet rides for normal travel are the Vice President (as presiding officer of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House who is 2nd in line for the Presidency and that is at the insistence of the Secret Service. All regular members of Congress such as my Oregon Senators and Representatives take commercial jets to travel between here and DC.
Ok, Let's start with the health care deal. Check out http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/23/opinion/main6324480.shtml . You can bet, if they get it, others will too. The point is, if it is so wonderful, why the exemption. Perhaps all of those articles out there about this are just wrong? We would know if Obama really was as transparent about these things as he said he would be. Instead just yesterday I found out a couple of Congressmen want to introduce legislation to hide his stuff for many years. Used to be done with an exec order. Probably Way TMI for this discussion.
Now, for the pension bit. Look at the article you cite. It says to take the top earning three years and average it. Then the formula. Then give the example for a typical career politician, which is actually a lot closer to a typical government worker. Same text I saw in a recent class about that. That third year for a Representative would be a zero. If you want the gory details and have a beer or two, here it is http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/retirement.pdf . I called up my source on that. Turns out he was just wrong. Here's a better citation -http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/retirement_for_members.shtml . You're right, I should have checked that one out better.
The one I had in mind for the flights was Peleosi. It was quite a bill. As for a security issue, that's hog wash. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/11/john-boehner-says-hell-fly-com.html . She abused it and she knows it. She also doesn't care. They are attacking General Aviation as a rich thing. It isn't. It's economical for time as well as tends to keep company secrets secret. Nothing can be done on a commercial jet other than as an executive mailing tube. You never know who is sitting next to you. Like the yatch industry they killed a number of years ago, they will probably do the same thing to the aviation industry. Remember the Yatch bit? You know, only "rich" people have them. Tax it. Rich people stopped buying them cold. BTW, according to recent stuff it seems that they may define "rich" as anyone making over $80,000. In Clinton's time I was able to defend the statement that "Rich" was making over $40,000. That was in 1993 dollars.
The first step will be to get Congress to be subject to the same laws that they pass for all of us. For example, they are NOT subject to Obamacare. Not subject to Sexual Harassment. One term in Congress? You get a pension at your current pay rate for life. This is all BS. I suppose you could call them Royalty. I could see if a Congressman has been there for 40 years, give him the 80%. There won't be that many of them. But one term? Please. Also, take their publicly funded jet rides. They think that Corporate people don't need them, they don't need them either. Take a commercial jet.
Then move onto how public CEOs can rob a company blind, and get away with it. HP is a good example of how they hired a European, he came over and ran it off a cliff to get fired, and since he's being fired gets his 4 million severance pay in addition to many other things. HP was really taken for a ride. They are taking as much as they can as fast as they can. Many of you say the stockholders can stop it. I've been one for years. They don't care at all what we think. They can do as they please, and do. Drain pension funds, health care funds, etc.. Yet I don't want to hit guys that busted their balls to create a company. They should get rewarded. I.e. the late Mr. Jobs for example. Love him or hate him, he should have been rewarded.
We've had html since the 1960s. The US Military created it. He didn't invent the web either. Usenet and many other forms were well in action long before BL came on the scene. He "Invented" putting a picture into a document, which he didn't even do that. Xerox did that first. He just came up wtih tieing it all together in a browser and port 80 instead of the other ports at the time like 1500. Big deal. It was obvious and not patenable because of that.
I used to have these hangups. I got over it long ago. The truth is, even in your company they may promote you to another part of the company tomorrow. Your friends will be in the same situation. The company will do what is in their best interest, which may be to keep you right where you are for the next 10 years or more. Further your career.
Along with that, you have to do your homework. Is this really a good opportunity? Can you expect your position to be there in a year? I.e. will the company be there in a year. Just do your best guess. People at the American company Solyndra had no clue until they got their termination notice. Even the President was there recently, pumped in 1/2 billion USD. Bankupt in less than a month. That may happen where you are. I left a company in the early 1990s and 6 months later everyone else was laid off. They moved the operation from Virginia (USA) to Finland. All but I think one guy was terminated after the product was developed here and supported for years.
You do owe it to yourself to do the research and make a decision. Also, understand that the decision is yours. Don't blame anyone on slashdot, or a relative.
Best of luck
Illegal porn? Things that should never see the light of day again, you need to make sure it's gone. Take the time and use the Linux Shred command, 2 passes, third pass zeros. This will do a very good job at keeping the data safe. Military grade is 7 times, however I think that is way overkill. I know they can get it up to 3 writes ago. It's very expensive but they can do it. If it's just crap, you may want to just destroy the interface board or remove it. Without an interface board, that makes it very difficult to get at the data. They know that even if they get the board, it may be a wiped disk. If your life depends on the data not being exposed, take the time and do it right. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean porn or government secrets. Sensitive data could be your financial records, tax returns, things like that. If a thief has your tax return, he can do you a lot of harm. Don't worry about them caring, they really don't care about you or what you go through either. IMHO they should be executed by hanging as soon as they are sure they are the ones doing the id theft.
By the way, I'm in the same boat. I have a bunch of old drives to get rid of. Same problem. For the drives I can't write to anymore because I have nothing to interface to it, I'm taking them apart and drilling the disks. Get a nice cobolt (Not cobolt brand, a cobolt drill) drill at Lowes or Home Depot. They go through it like melted butter. Yes, I've done this a few times already.
I am a judge where I grew up. I know all the schools in the county. I was shocked to find out that even at the magnet school for science and technology that the science classes were being taught mostly by liberal arts teachers. That is, social studies and english teachers. They told me to be honest with my comments. No PC here. I was. When I saw crap I commented as to why it was wrong and how to find out how to do it right. So many were being led into just wrong thinking. Then once in a while I would come across a true gem. Someone that is truly a scientist. Makes it all worth while. I haven't seen one for about 3 years. This year is coming right up.
Sure, his example worked in a world almost devoid of patents. I bet Microsoft has enough patents to hold the public by the short hairs for years. I'm sure they will resort to all kinds of stuff to survive. Just like SCO tried to do. No doubt, he's a very smart guy. Unfortunately he still has a lot to learn.
As for interacting with other agencies, I've been using a Linux desktop since it was available. For at least the past 10 years I've sent files to Windows people and they have never known the difference. I've also fixed Excel files that Windows, even Microsoft themselves couldn't fix. I just brought it up in the Linux spreadsheet program, saved it and it was ok again. Didn't lose a thing. It did complain that it had a Character 0 in the file where it didn't expect it. To me Microsoft shouldn't have thrown the whole file away just because of that. I was the last ditch effort. The guy was about to cry. He had been working on that spreadsheet for 3 weeks and it had saved it so he deleted his backup. Me - No problem.
I'm curious, what program are you using that is available only on Windows? In the past it seems to me they were only available under Linux or Unix. Most scientific stuff is under Unix/Linux. When I see Windows trying to do a Unix/Linux job I ask about it. Often the scientists complain about it. Crashing, losing data, etc. It just isn't up to the task. Sometimes they will even tell me that they were told to use Windows by management. I felt long ago that Microsoft should sell their OS and move all their apps to Linux. That would really make a lot of sense.
The egg came first. History tells us the answer to long lasting peace. Conditions have to deteriate to a certain level before they lose the desire to fight. They obviously have it too nice over there. I think they need to lose at least 25% more people, perhaps even 50% more before they will become civilized. This has to be done by the indiginous people. Only then will they see how terrible it is and stop it. Then it's just maintenance for a decade or so. Even in the US, we really could use the duel. Get rid of some crazy people.
An accident is not assured. I don't want to seem like a troll, however this seems to convenient. There is happenstance. However I find it way to coincidental that just as Obama announces that he wants to allow new off shore drilling we have a major accident. There hasn't been a problem for decades. I know militant environmentalists aren't above doing something like that. After all, they drill in some of the most sensitive environmental areas in the world and there hasn't been a problem. I learned this from testimony from the last administration, from representatives in Louisiana about their sensitive areas. I know people who worked down there after the Hurricane and they said even spilling Diesel for a generator is a big deal.
This is not directed to you... I just want to state it for others reading - Oil is natural by definition. Man didn't make it. Some people seem to forget that.
Depends on if you can study by yourself or not. I used to be the guy at the student help clinic... about 25 years ago. If you can or you want to try it, go to a campus book store. You will usually find off to the side a used book area. They often have old books and more importantly the keys. Mathematics builds on previous courses. The thing to do is to find out where you are. I'd try an algebra book and geometry. Select 10 questions (or even 5) from the chapters and see how you do with the key. Of course be honest with yourself, make sure you master those chapters. Then you can probably sell those books back to the store or put them on flea bay. Now you are ready to do the calculus. Buy a book(s) and key again. Same thing. Do 10 questions and see how you do. If you get 8 right, that's 80% of course. You are going to need more like 9/10 right. Statistics is tougher. I bought many books and keys for the Engineering grade statistics. That's all I did during a summer course. I passed it with a 95%. Problems, problems, problems. Just keep doing them and you will know it. This by the way is how to learn. Something they don't seem to teach in school. If you are having trouble, feel free to seek out campus help. Most schools have a tutor area or sometimes it's called a clinic. As a guy who used to run one of those clinics, please do your part. That is, don't expect them to be a test fairy and somehow by the mere fact you were there, you know it. That may not be you, however we had a lot of people that hadn't even looked at the chapter and thought we would teach them. I found there is no short cut for advanced mathematics. You have to train your mind how to do this stuff.
You seem to know what you are talking about. Can you point to a demonstration that shows CO2 increases temperature? Simple experiment will do.
On the other hand, I can remember a guy that bought a late 1990s or early 2000s Lincoln Navigator and he thought it was smarter than he is. Knowing the guy for years he was probably right. So I guess it is relative in some ways. I still think there is no need to worry. Go back to sleep.
I have been to their site probably hundreds of times over the past 15 years. We have onsite dudes as well. Not one single time do I remember one word about it. Make it easy guys, advertise it, at least say something.
Why go through all of this? What happens if the production machine or even the site is destroyed? What happens if everyone in your building is hit with some new bug that kills everyone or the building being built badly collapses and kills everyone? I have also found it is very useful to have these records. Even for projects that I did 10 or 15 years ago I can't remember stuff any more. It also comes in useful if something is set wrong. Was it that way to begin with or did the software upgrade break something? I've put people from some very large organizations on the spot because I could pinpoint when something was changed on their part and not documented.
Finally, it is good to keep developers off the production box. They may put something on there that they are not supposed to. I know, I used to do it and so did all of my other developer friends. That stuff has been known to be used by attackers.
They need to remove the SFRA over Washington and the silly restrictions around the POTUS. Nobody has used a GA aircraft in a terrorist attack anywhere in the world. All of these restrictions is just a waste of money and a compromise on freedom for security. We don't even get the security.
There is also a move to put TSA style restrictions at an airport near you. Certainly very likely to be put in place at least one of the airports that you fly into. That means you wouldn't be able to back your car up to your 182 anymore... No Sirree! You would have to go to a dude to make you take your shoes off, go through the normal screening. We're fighting it. I sincerely hope it doesn't happen. Totally useless to screen us. They would spend their money FAR better to secure our boarder with Mexico instead. As bad as normal cops that pull people over for speeding instead of busting people breaking into houses or putting Identity thieves in jail.
Yes, we need seconds, 10 seconds make a minute, 10 minutes make an hour, 10 hours make a day, 10 days make a week and 10 weeks make a year. So simple even a cave man could do it.
Except a cave man couldn't do it. Not even close.
We are no where near ready to do something about an asteroid about to hit us. First off, we would get possibly less than a day's notice. Some that have nearly hit us recently we didn't even know about until it had passed us. Then lots of thought would have to be put on how to properly address the threat. Do nothing, if do something, what do we do? Who would do it? If it had to hit a continent, that would be Africa. Nothing significant is down there anyhow, it's almost all desert. In fact Saharan sand would probably be the best thing it could hit.. We may also get rid of a pirate problem.
Conspiracy theories? Those are from the left mostly. With Ozone, I know the NASA scientists very well that tried to measure the hole and found it wasn't there. It was supposed to be a crises until at least 2020. It was a hoax to the point that almost nobody even remembers it now. I remember the plans for blimps and such to "fix the problem." It was all scrapped when the hoax was exposed. Just type in cfc hoax. Some interesting stuff comes up that may be right. I remember having these discussions/arguments over how 1999 there would be no ozone up there and we would all be dead (this was in 1992). I remember a woman in particular that was fighting as if her life depended on it and really believed it strongly. All BS I said. History showed I was totally right. Last I knew she is a housewife.
As for this topic, read the news today? The Russians found that they deleted the data from them that they didn't agree with as well. What other revelation will there be? Complete admission this is all a hoax? Let me focus this for you, read this - http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34896 if you dare. Tough to dispute that. It's measurable and verifiable (and undeniable for most people). The question is are you going to continue to believe the con job or not. As for the scientists, they will simply say that they were lied to and salvage their own careers. Others will say it was someone insignificant that changed or deleted the data they were using and throw them under the bus. I've seen that before. I've even seen history rewritten to save certain people. Then there is Hansen at Goddard that said it was a year 2000 bug that made his findings wrong for the hottest decade/year for example. Don't know if I sent this to you or not - http://climateaudit.org/2007/08/08/a-new-leaderboard-at-the-us-open/ Interesting, eh?
As for these posts, yea, it's stale. You would be surprised at how they are read, however. I sometimes get responses from stuff I wrote even 6 months or more out. As if I would be the least bit interested by then. I shouldn't have responded in the first place and probably shouldn't have responded here. I know better and I didn't mean to pick on you, it was just right there to hit reply and you were the lucky guy. It was there mocking me! Just kidding. It is hard sometimes to not say anything. Especially when I see a con job going on. Some may later say how come nobody said something? We did. Scientists from around the world have raised very serious questions about this topic. They (people like you) were too busy telling us we are stupid or don't understand or had an agenda or pick some other distraction aimed to discredit. I've even been brutally persecuted before for being right. It's no fun. Sometimes they admit it and pay for their error. I've also been wrong before, however I'm very careful to make sure I don't trash them. Consider what they are saying. They may be right. However a sign that they are wrong is when you find data is missing. Especially data contrary to their point. Ignore it perhaps at the risk of your reputation. If you have something that is very compelling to show me that I'm wrong, please forward it. I'm still willing to consider it, even against my better judgement.
I'm afraid you really are part of the cult if you honestly can sit there and tell me they don't tell you what to think. How can you possibly say that? Were you not around the last 8 years when they accused Bush of all kinds of stuff because they didn't agree with them? That is, the very things they admit to in their e-mails? The e-mails show worldwide how if you don't agree with them, they actively took steps to discredit you, defund you, and so on. True, they don't come to your house and beat you up (as far as I know), they stop short of that. I don't know what to say for you thinking they are experts when they violate basic rules for science. Deleting data that they don't agree with and such.
You're really underestimating Al's position. I remember him forcing people out at the World Weather Bureau in the early 1990s. Anyone that disagreed with his "man made global warming". He's no acolyte. If he isn't pope, he is at least a cardinal or bishop... or something. Not sure of the church rankings (which I'm sure doesn't surprise you).
True, we are dumping an awful lot of CO2 into the world. That is a concern. Another ironic part are the "environmentalists" not allowing the forest service to thin out forests. Instead they allow them to build up "spindly", perfect fire wood. Then they burn and burn very well. Ugh, I'd better stop. The environmentalists mean well, they are just often full of it. You need to understand water vapours part in the heating equation. This is fairly basic and you don't seem to know it.
I just hope that out of all of this they finally decide to do a real scientific study on the matter. No throwing out of data, no intimidation, no cutting funding if they don't agree with the results. You know, real science. I'm not sure it can be done since many of the top people would be afraid to say the Emperor has no clothes! Remember the ozone bit from the 1990s? That was a crisis too. Then when they went to measure it, it wasn't even there. Junk science. I understand DuPont had a hand in that hoax. Just type in "dupont freon hoax" into google... Back in the 1990s that was "settled science" too. I pointed out problems back then too... and here we are again.
If we can honestly and truly do something about it, that's one thing. If we spend trillions and it means nothing, that's another. It's work fair to make certain people very rich. We can do without that.
As for CO2, you still seem to miss the point. Is CO2 the cause or a symptom? That's the question. If it's a symptom then eliminating it does absolutely no good. If you look at the UN report of 1992, it talks about global warming. No mention of man. Next year suddenly without any proof whatsoever, man is to blame. HUH? That WTH is this is what concerns anyone that has a scientific background. They have been trying to hammer in some "proof" ever since. They should do it right or shut up. The other case in point are these e-mails that show proof they can't make their case and they know it. I remember Hanson of Goddard Space Flight Center testified the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. Then a researcher found out he was wrong. The 1930s were. Hansen said it was a year 2000 bug. Was it a bug or did he lie? Seems hard to believe such a "scientist" would make such a mistake. He received a Nobel prize by the way. Just like Algore did. See a pattern here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen Sounds like a great guy, eh? Ok, look here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3563532/The-world-has-never-seen-such-freezing-heat.html How embarrassing.
The question is are you a religious member of the "man causing global warming" church or not. Open mind or not. My mind is open, if you say man is causing GW, prove it. Use data that we can look at and models we can look at. Taking someone's word for it has never been acceptable scientifically. Only for religions do we have to do that. Like a religion, if you believe in it, a few make a lot of money off of your belief. Algore wants to be the pope of that religion. Like a religion you expect everyone else to just accept it and if we don't we're dumb, heretics, etc.
Seems CO2 as a heating agent is no more scientifically based than the fact plants need it to survive and a greenhouse is hot. Plants put out a lot of water vapour, trapping the heat. Nothing to do with CO2. This misconception is at the heart of their argument. I could bring up more stuff, however you will either see my point by now or you'll never see it.
Swift fuels (company based out of a college in Indiana I think) are likely to come out and take over the old petroleum based vehicles. In that case, we are using stuff that is renewable by definition. They also emit CO2 and under the proposed legislation, they pollute even though it is clear they don't. Government (sometimes called "the man") often does stupid things especially when it is based on half baked science. All a lot of us are saying is if you want to spend 100s of billions, perhaps trillions of Dollars world wide, you had better be damn sure of what you are saying and doing. Fudging data, omitting data, their other conduct is reprehensible in that regard. Clearly unscientific, or it could and would stand on its own. It's science after all. You know, based on facts. The science isn't "settled" and they know it as shown in their e-mail.
My guess is that Man isn't causing GW to the point that we could do something about it. Their proposals for the most part confirm that. They still want us to spend billions, however. If they can show we are to blame and we could do something about it, that is another thing. We should do that. As things are, it is looking more and more like THE largest case of scientific fraud EVER perpetrated on mankind. I have my reasons for pointing out Al Gore. Very good reasons. It is also very important to not confuse him with a scientist. He isn't, not even close. In Vietnam he was a son of a Senator and was a news paper reporter. Then he was a news paper reporter after he departed the Army. Then he rode his father's coattails into the Senate. Otherwise he would still be a nobody.