So YOU'RE the fiend responsible for school busses arriving at 6:15 AM for a school that started at 7:30. Shame on you, sir.
I'd start your school more like 6:30 instead or find another way to do it. I wouldn't do that to you. Besides, I doubt anything I did is still being used today. That was over 20 years ago. The machine that it ran on was a mainframe with a whole megabyte, perhaps less of memory. Written in Pascal. I saved it to paper tape and that is long gone now. I do remember such a schedule though, it was for the very smart kids from a certain city because they had a 45-60 minute bus ride. Not much I could do about that one. Seems to me their ride was more like 6:15AM and they got home at 5:30 that evening. No complaints either.
Never the less... bla ha ha ha ha...(evil laugh). The schedules I set up usually had everyone arriving about 15 minutes before class. That was enough to allow for a traffic backup and so they wouldn't be running people over trying to get to homeroom on time. We didn't want them to get to school too early so they would be hanging around. Idle kids tend to do destructive things or other things to get into trouble. I also didn't think that was a nice thing to do.
Hey, make something of it. Approach your transportation folks and see if they are open to someone makeing more sense of the bus schedules. You want to find the guy that has to deal with the financial end of things. Not the guys doing the actual driving or maintainance. They are usually very open to saving money/time. They might even pay you for it. Then you can take that experience and do it someplace else. I have no interest in that stuff anymore. That is what I consider a little deal now. Back then it was a big deal. Expect to spend a lot of time on it. "Hi, I'm a student here and I'm trying to do a practical problem using the traveling salesman problem.... could I have the bus schedules, routes, etc?"... sure kid, here you go.... away you go. Good luck.
Nobody is going to use Travelling Salesman in the real world to plan journeys.
Sure they do. School systems do this for bus routes. Some counties used to pay good money for that. For one school system I worked with it saved nearly 1 million in gasoline for the year and that school system wasn't that large and back then gasoline wasn't that expensive like it is now. The next year I suggested changing school start times to optimize it even further. They saved an additional 3 million that year and eliminated a number of busses entirely. This is just one example.
BTW, even though they don't travel in straight lines in practice, that doesn't matter. Simply consider the mileage as a line. After all they are confined to the road unless they have off-road capabilities.
Even the average Joe often does the TSP, probably without realizing it. When you have a number of places to go, do you just go to whichever first or do you plan your journey to optimize your time? Almost everyone I know figures this out before they leave. Sometimes if there is a group of us, I have even observed discussions on which routes and order would be best.
Hey, they are trying to leave us out again! First we can't listen in on them as they talk between cars, busses and trains. Now they want to use sign over the phone too? If we can't talk they shouldn't be able too either. It's only fair. OTOH, it would be nice to have a "finger" text key... to give someone else the finger.... maybe a talking milkshake giving the finger as recently seen in Boston?
Most if not all states that levy state sales taxes also have what is called a companion law so that if you buy something out of state, you still owe taxes if the amount paid is less than you would have in your state. For example Virginia has a 4.5% sales tax, maryland has a 5% sales tax. When you register your car in maryland, they collect that.5%. maryland has also been known to watch for furniture vans on the road and if they stop at a maryland house, they inspect and issue taxes. I got nailed for a 60 year old plane I bought in Virginia and brought back to maryland at the full 5%. Even though the amount of taxes paid on that plane so far is more than tripple what it is worth now. Seems that after a while it should be illegal to continue to collect sales taxes on something. Then it has to be registered with the feds and sometimes with the state.
I think it is amazing that California didn't go with it. Usually it is very hard for politicians to turn down money. I expected them to take it and figure they will iron it out later. Thanks California... for now. That's the spirit, keep on fighting. Teach those smaller states!
Also the way the check out works is that you can check it out once for two weeks, renew it once for two weeks, and then you can never check out the same book a second time, making it essential to have multiple fake library IDs if you want to get through some long book.
Not sure about other people, once I've seen a movie that is it for the most part. I've moved on. I think I have seen the same movie maybe 3 times in my life. I have a whole bunch of old VHS and DVD's that have only ever been watched once. In once case not even that.
Two weeks seems like plenty of time to watch something. This is the same policy for DVDs that they have at my library. I usually don't even have them a week.
You are so right when people who are there to help you have no clue. I'm running into that a lot. Worse they often look at you as if it is your fault. As if you are an idiot. Especially at hotels/motels/resorts that are supposed to have a wifi and it isn't working.
Basically, don't trust in-house statistics, unless you can reproduce the results yourself.
Most people out there are simply not qualified to do statistics and they think they are. Turns out that most people don't even know how to count as anyone that has taken a discrete mathematics course would know. So verifying the results in all but a trivial case isn't possible for most people. For those of us who could do it, the data is often not available (intentionally). If it is available and we try to tell other people about the misrepresentation, we often get mud slung at us. They don't want their misrepresentation (some would say "lie") exposed. This is especially true with political items.
Activists are famous for restricting the universe of possibilities to make a point and show a big problem. For example they may say 78% of the people are against what (your leader, whoever that is) is doing. What they don't tell you is the group of people they asked are opponents of (your leader) and not a representative sampling. One polling firm that it would be good to make them prove their results is AP/IPSOS.
No one seems to have mentioned that some people are probably going to advertise something as a final act. Worse, maybe some companies out there will pay to bury you if you let them stick an advertisement in your memory device. "Brought to you by Wonder Pictures. If it is a good picture, it's a wonder."
I thought of that recently as I was being pelted with spam again. So I looked at 100 of those messages and found out that they were all being sent from real ISP and corporate mail servers. Even from a famous aircraft maker that is generally very careful about such things. I still think the best solution to the problem is to put them in jail, for years according to how much they sent out. For the worst offenders - capital punishment. Hang 'em high for all to see, on TV! A good touch would be to offer them some cheap viagra just before hanging them.
Sure, some people will still do it anyway. However if we hang them, they won't do it again. I bet they have wasted more than a year of my life dealing with their BS. I'm also sure they couldn't care less about what other people go through because of them. I think we should change that. Every nation should cooperate, no place to hide.
Didn't know the US was "behind." Maybe we could have put a man on the Moon... oh yea, we are the only ones that have ever done that... using SAE. Maybe we would have the most powerful military in the world... oh yea, we have that too. Seem that we are ahead of the rest of the world, not behind. The fact of the matter is it isn't easy to change an entire country from SAE (Standard American Engineering, NOT "Imperial", that is another measure) to Metric. In the beginning literally EVERYTHING would have to change. Every wrench, printing press, liquid measurements, the paper written on and so on. Today that is about 50% true. In the 1970s the typical automobile had hardly any parts, if any metric parts on it at all. Today most of the car if not all of it is metric. Even for the most backward car company out there... who shall remain un-named (hint, not GM).
Side from the severe economic penalty to changing to a system that isn't even based off of anything real (i.e. what it was originally supposed to be based on we now know is wrong), there is also the rebel factor. The ability to not let the leaders tell us what to do. We aren't mindless like other countries that simply complied. Ok, that probably isn't fair, Like other countries that after great debate caved into a simple measuring system that any idiot could use. I know because I have seen complete idiots use Metric.
I can remember there was the idiotic attempt a few years ago to switch to metric time. See http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/ . So clearly Metric isn't "universal" as proponets claim it is.
It would be nice if we all did use the same measurement, whatever it is. Personally I don't care because I use both. I think within the next say 20 years SAE will die out. It is already on the run now. I'll keep my SAE sockets around so I can still work on older stuff. Just need more time to let the older folks die out, then for better or worse it will be a Metric world.
The antique language accounted for 75% of all business transactions last year, and some 90% of financial transactions.
The guy that said this from Ovum also said a lot more (HERE), cited on Microfocus' web site, the maker of Microfocus Cobol (yea, they are not biased....). Microfocus does make a good Cobol compiler BTW. That quote could be 10 years old or more and probably is. Most of finance moved on years ago and don't run a single line of Cobol anymore. NYC has a lot of mainframes displaced with blades and linux. IBM helped a lot of them do it. I know I threw all of my Cobol/MVS/other mainframe crap out years ago. I haven't even had an inquiry about that stuff for years.
He is talking about a UFO that was spotted over O'Hare airport in November. Clearly it isn't this project, they are in the stone age side of whatever was over O'Hare. That is, if there was anything there at all. Some people think it was a weather phenominon bending light to fool the eye. If it wasn't weather and it really was a spacecraft or aircraft of some sort, I'd like a ride!
I used to think that too. Then I installed a 10' (ten foot) dish, 4DTV receiver and I found out otherwise. Even digital signals can degrade and leave artifacts in the picture. Usually it is because the dish slightly out of alignment with the satallite. I have to get my ladder out and a set of wrenches to fix it. When hooking it up to begin with I found out that the cables can make all the difference in the world. This is very apparent with a progressive scan setup. Screw up a frame or two there and you can be looking at what looks like two puzzles with different pieces from each puzzle put down. It can take a while, usually less than 10 seconds to fix it. However for that 5+ seconds you are looking at crap. Then you lose another frame! AHHHHHH!
The ironic part is I have had a $5 cable work a lot better than a $50 cable. I have to admit that the previous posters are right about purchasing a HD setup. Even I am intimidated when I go to buy stuff. Ok, does it have a tuner? 1080i? 1080p? 480i? Will this work with that? What about the sound? What about the off air setup for local HD stations? Will it work with my 4DTV sidecar setup for HD? Finally, do I have all the frickin cables to hook it all up? The first time I think I went back to the store 3 or 4 times because I either didn't have the right cable or it turned out it was too short, etc.. That was because the help at the store didn't know either. Forget something like a tuner that you thought was included in the HDTV set and suddenly your purchase price goes up a few hundred. Worse, when a friend comes over and sees the cool setup, they want you to help them set their house up too (and usually for free, not even a beer is offered)! Ah, the days with two wire or coax and a simple TV hookup that any fool could get working.
NASA had been working on new propulsion systems, however they involved using radioactive stuff and Greenpeace/Sierra club crushed it as a nuclear threat back in the 1970s. See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/565 8/614.
Now Patrick Moore (one of the founders of Greenpeace) has admitted the anti-nuke effort was a mistake - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html . A lot of myths about nukes still abound from Greenpeace propaganda from the 1970s. Unfortunately Greenpeace still beats this drum even though they clearly should know better now.
Until this situation changes I think we are still limited to WWII type chemical propulsion systems. The space elevator offers hope, maybe. We'll see.
I use sun rocket for my phone at home through comcast cable. I don't get Comcast TV, though they practically begged me to take it. My setup has the comcast cable modem, Fedora Core firewall and on the inside the sun rocket "gizmo". I was using traffic shaping and it worked fine for a long time. Even while downloading or shoving something to a site someplace. About 3 weeks ago I started having problems. Last week I had a LOT of problems. Starting Saturday I had to abandon TC and go with IPtables priority and throughput commands. Even with that it gets choppy sometimes. Downloads have speeded up to over 1 MB/Sec where they were about 800 KB/Sec. Yes, I upgraded my service. about 6 months ago, before I used wonder shaper. Wonder shaper took downloads from 1 MB/Sec to 300KB/Sec.
SO I'm wondering if they are intentionally tanking my VOIP traffic.
About Sun Rocket - I have had it for about a year. They are a great company. Lightning took out not only my local network (and a bunch of other stuff... hit VERY close, very strong!) one time, it fried the sun rocket. They had another one at my door FedEx next day. When I was in Florida I hooked it up to the internet connection where I was staying and it worked just fine. The help staff is very useful as well. I don't know anyone that has Vonage so I don't know how it compares.
I voted in rural southern Maryland yesterday. The machine used is a Diebold. The line was short, they verified my voter registration in less than 30 seconds and I was voting within 2 minutes of being inside the door. I'm a registered Dem so there were a LOT of candidates to go over (you can only vote within your party in the primaries in Maryland), and vote for with the exception of the Governor - one choice. When I was done voting and cast my ballot, I simply turned in the smart card and I was outta there! I don't want to mislead you, the polling place was busy. Every station was being used. However the personnel at this polling place worked like a well oiled machine. Just as they always had, even with the old paper (complete the arrow) ballots.
If Prince Georges and Montgomery county are having problems, maybe it has a lot more to do with the people who live in those counties.
Nine years in prison for spamming is too much. Heck, two years is too much as well. You can get off easier than that for killing people.
You only get 2 years for killing someone? Where is that? As someone that has had to deal with this type of spam as an e-mail user and an administrator, I think he didn't get enough time. Lock 'em up for 30 years, hard labor or at his option execution. They have wasted way too much of other people's time and resources. We never get compensated for it either. Sometimes we also have to deal with users that are totally pissed at getting spam. For some machines that they take over, it can become a legal issue. I bet if you found your machine being used to send out viagra advertisements and you coulnd't use your own machine you would feel differently. That would only be the beginning. Then you would have to deal with the people that got the spam. It isn't any fun. The people that it happens to are usually not very computer literate at all. Sort of like using a car and finding advertisements all over it that you didn't put there, and then people wanting to beat you up for it too. So you clean up your car and it happens again and again and again. Unless you have a better method to stop people from spamming, jail is the only real way we have to deter them. Studies show that jail does work. Not putting them in jail simply encourages them.
They issued an AD for DC-10, 747 and L-1011 aircraft to correct this. It didn't require a door change from an outty to an inny. It simply changed how it locked so as to make sure the pins engauged when closed or it wouldn't close. They also changed the circuitry to closed loop so the light in the cockpit would show up when it really was locked. Rest assured, there are plenty of them still out there today. DC-3 - DC-10 aircraft and that is only Douglass aircraft. Some Boeings did the same thing. It was a carry over from when they weren't pressurized. Of course the DC-3 is a very old plane now, still flying though. They can be purchased for around $100,000. Better ones go upwards of $250,000 depending on what is in them.
That "door" was a hydraulically-operated rear boarding ramp. So you could say that he _did_ use a hydraulic jack.
I have used that door myself many times on the shuttle from NYC to Washington. I never did know how they opened it, just that it was opened and I could beat the heck out of the rush by going out the back. I had a lot of other things to worry about rather than how they did it... like where the heck I parked. Could be a jack-screw that opened it. That would save weight and they are very strong. Less to go wrong too.
The original thing I was talking about didn't require a jack. It was the door that was on the port side of a DC-10. Depending on the model it was a cargo door or a loading door for food. The FAA put out an AD for correcting those doors on DC-10, 747 and the L 1011. They have doors that open outwards too. The AD didn't change the door from an outty to an inny, it simply required circuitry and a change to the door's mechanism such that it wasn't possible to close the door without the pins being properly engauged and the circuitry was to make sure it really is locked shut. Shows up in the cockpit. You would be nuts to jump out even if you could as it is very likely you will get killed doing it.
With a parachute he leaped from the back tail-fan door. Otherwise, don't do it even if you could. It would be rather unpleasant. Some of the old birds, their doors opened outwards and not into the cabin. That was a design change due to an accident, on an aircraft on its delivery flight. The door wasn't completely closed and the new crew didn't know it. Not sure if any of them are still in service. They might be considering a number of 747s and other aircraft from the 1960s are still in service.
Sure bub. I'll tell you something else; even Linux as a whole isn't ready for that yet.
Don't be an idiot. Linux has been used in telco, banking, wall street, appliances and even spacecraft for years without a problem. I have to agree with RedHat on this one. I have used Novell's Xen and I have had a lot of problems. It works a lot better under Fedora Core 5, however I wouldn't use it for real yet. Stick it back in, it isn't done yet.
...And who will have the guts to sell them? Just think of the liability insurance for all the harm lawyers will allege. Look to Cigarettes for a taste of what they can look forward to. Besides, how can someone be a rebel if they can't do something illegal? Clueless people all over the country would be left without something to do. Well, there is always prostitution, stealing and submitting stuff to slashdot to be rejected.
I used to be a nay sayer for doing away with passwords. However it seems clear that we will have to do away with them one day and rely on something we have (a device - USB drive, RSA secure-id, etc) rather than something we know (a password). Perhaps a combination of the two will eventually win out - something we have and know.
Lost your device? Just answer what your dog's name is (Cujo) or what you wanted to be when you grew up (Convenience store attendant, just like Apu).
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I'd start your school more like 6:30 instead or find another way to do it. I wouldn't do that to you. Besides, I doubt anything I did is still being used today. That was over 20 years ago. The machine that it ran on was a mainframe with a whole megabyte, perhaps less of memory. Written in Pascal. I saved it to paper tape and that is long gone now. I do remember such a schedule though, it was for the very smart kids from a certain city because they had a 45-60 minute bus ride. Not much I could do about that one. Seems to me their ride was more like 6:15AM and they got home at 5:30 that evening. No complaints either.
Never the less... bla ha ha ha ha...(evil laugh). The schedules I set up usually had everyone arriving about 15 minutes before class. That was enough to allow for a traffic backup and so they wouldn't be running people over trying to get to homeroom on time. We didn't want them to get to school too early so they would be hanging around. Idle kids tend to do destructive things or other things to get into trouble. I also didn't think that was a nice thing to do.
Hey, make something of it. Approach your transportation folks and see if they are open to someone makeing more sense of the bus schedules. You want to find the guy that has to deal with the financial end of things. Not the guys doing the actual driving or maintainance. They are usually very open to saving money/time. They might even pay you for it. Then you can take that experience and do it someplace else. I have no interest in that stuff anymore. That is what I consider a little deal now. Back then it was a big deal. Expect to spend a lot of time on it. "Hi, I'm a student here and I'm trying to do a practical problem using the traveling salesman problem.... could I have the bus schedules, routes, etc?"... sure kid, here you go.... away you go. Good luck.
Sure they do. School systems do this for bus routes. Some counties used to pay good money for that. For one school system I worked with it saved nearly 1 million in gasoline for the year and that school system wasn't that large and back then gasoline wasn't that expensive like it is now. The next year I suggested changing school start times to optimize it even further. They saved an additional 3 million that year and eliminated a number of busses entirely. This is just one example.
BTW, even though they don't travel in straight lines in practice, that doesn't matter. Simply consider the mileage as a line. After all they are confined to the road unless they have off-road capabilities.
Even the average Joe often does the TSP, probably without realizing it. When you have a number of places to go, do you just go to whichever first or do you plan your journey to optimize your time? Almost everyone I know figures this out before they leave. Sometimes if there is a group of us, I have even observed discussions on which routes and order would be best.
I'm being funny.... mod +1, funny.
I think it is amazing that California didn't go with it. Usually it is very hard for politicians to turn down money. I expected them to take it and figure they will iron it out later. Thanks California... for now. That's the spirit, keep on fighting. Teach those smaller states!
Not sure about other people, once I've seen a movie that is it for the most part. I've moved on. I think I have seen the same movie maybe 3 times in my life. I have a whole bunch of old VHS and DVD's that have only ever been watched once. In once case not even that.
Two weeks seems like plenty of time to watch something. This is the same policy for DVDs that they have at my library. I usually don't even have them a week.
You are so right when people who are there to help you have no clue. I'm running into that a lot. Worse they often look at you as if it is your fault. As if you are an idiot. Especially at hotels/motels/resorts that are supposed to have a wifi and it isn't working.
Most people out there are simply not qualified to do statistics and they think they are. Turns out that most people don't even know how to count as anyone that has taken a discrete mathematics course would know. So verifying the results in all but a trivial case isn't possible for most people. For those of us who could do it, the data is often not available (intentionally). If it is available and we try to tell other people about the misrepresentation, we often get mud slung at us. They don't want their misrepresentation (some would say "lie") exposed. This is especially true with political items.
Activists are famous for restricting the universe of possibilities to make a point and show a big problem. For example they may say 78% of the people are against what (your leader, whoever that is) is doing. What they don't tell you is the group of people they asked are opponents of (your leader) and not a representative sampling. One polling firm that it would be good to make them prove their results is AP/IPSOS.
How about "Dumb client" or "Thin terminal". Oh wait, "Dumb Client" is already taken. The people that use SCO.
No one seems to have mentioned that some people are probably going to advertise something as a final act. Worse, maybe some companies out there will pay to bury you if you let them stick an advertisement in your memory device. "Brought to you by Wonder Pictures. If it is a good picture, it's a wonder."
Sure, some people will still do it anyway. However if we hang them, they won't do it again. I bet they have wasted more than a year of my life dealing with their BS. I'm also sure they couldn't care less about what other people go through because of them. I think we should change that. Every nation should cooperate, no place to hide.
(at gunpoint) Ok buddy, what is the meaning of this? Says here you were 10 days late on your Victoria's Secret payment!
Side from the severe economic penalty to changing to a system that isn't even based off of anything real (i.e. what it was originally supposed to be based on we now know is wrong), there is also the rebel factor. The ability to not let the leaders tell us what to do. We aren't mindless like other countries that simply complied. Ok, that probably isn't fair, Like other countries that after great debate caved into a simple measuring system that any idiot could use. I know because I have seen complete idiots use Metric.
I can remember there was the idiotic attempt a few years ago to switch to metric time. See http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/ . So clearly Metric isn't "universal" as proponets claim it is.
It would be nice if we all did use the same measurement, whatever it is. Personally I don't care because I use both. I think within the next say 20 years SAE will die out. It is already on the run now. I'll keep my SAE sockets around so I can still work on older stuff. Just need more time to let the older folks die out, then for better or worse it will be a Metric world.
The guy that said this from Ovum also said a lot more (HERE), cited on Microfocus' web site, the maker of Microfocus Cobol (yea, they are not biased....). Microfocus does make a good Cobol compiler BTW. That quote could be 10 years old or more and probably is. Most of finance moved on years ago and don't run a single line of Cobol anymore. NYC has a lot of mainframes displaced with blades and linux. IBM helped a lot of them do it. I know I threw all of my Cobol/MVS/other mainframe crap out years ago. I haven't even had an inquiry about that stuff for years.
He is talking about a UFO that was spotted over O'Hare airport in November. Clearly it isn't this project, they are in the stone age side of whatever was over O'Hare. That is, if there was anything there at all. Some people think it was a weather phenominon bending light to fool the eye. If it wasn't weather and it really was a spacecraft or aircraft of some sort, I'd like a ride!
I used to think that too. Then I installed a 10' (ten foot) dish, 4DTV receiver and I found out otherwise. Even digital signals can degrade and leave artifacts in the picture. Usually it is because the dish slightly out of alignment with the satallite. I have to get my ladder out and a set of wrenches to fix it. When hooking it up to begin with I found out that the cables can make all the difference in the world. This is very apparent with a progressive scan setup. Screw up a frame or two there and you can be looking at what looks like two puzzles with different pieces from each puzzle put down. It can take a while, usually less than 10 seconds to fix it. However for that 5+ seconds you are looking at crap. Then you lose another frame! AHHHHHH!
The ironic part is I have had a $5 cable work a lot better than a $50 cable. I have to admit that the previous posters are right about purchasing a HD setup. Even I am intimidated when I go to buy stuff. Ok, does it have a tuner? 1080i? 1080p? 480i? Will this work with that? What about the sound? What about the off air setup for local HD stations? Will it work with my 4DTV sidecar setup for HD? Finally, do I have all the frickin cables to hook it all up? The first time I think I went back to the store 3 or 4 times because I either didn't have the right cable or it turned out it was too short, etc.. That was because the help at the store didn't know either. Forget something like a tuner that you thought was included in the HDTV set and suddenly your purchase price goes up a few hundred. Worse, when a friend comes over and sees the cool setup, they want you to help them set their house up too (and usually for free, not even a beer is offered)! Ah, the days with two wire or coax and a simple TV hookup that any fool could get working.
Now Patrick Moore (one of the founders of Greenpeace) has admitted the anti-nuke effort was a mistake - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html . A lot of myths about nukes still abound from Greenpeace propaganda from the 1970s. Unfortunately Greenpeace still beats this drum even though they clearly should know better now.
Until this situation changes I think we are still limited to WWII type chemical propulsion systems. The space elevator offers hope, maybe. We'll see.
SO I'm wondering if they are intentionally tanking my VOIP traffic.
About Sun Rocket - I have had it for about a year. They are a great company. Lightning took out not only my local network (and a bunch of other stuff... hit VERY close, very strong!) one time, it fried the sun rocket. They had another one at my door FedEx next day. When I was in Florida I hooked it up to the internet connection where I was staying and it worked just fine. The help staff is very useful as well. I don't know anyone that has Vonage so I don't know how it compares.
If Prince Georges and Montgomery county are having problems, maybe it has a lot more to do with the people who live in those counties.
You only get 2 years for killing someone? Where is that? As someone that has had to deal with this type of spam as an e-mail user and an administrator, I think he didn't get enough time. Lock 'em up for 30 years, hard labor or at his option execution. They have wasted way too much of other people's time and resources. We never get compensated for it either. Sometimes we also have to deal with users that are totally pissed at getting spam. For some machines that they take over, it can become a legal issue. I bet if you found your machine being used to send out viagra advertisements and you coulnd't use your own machine you would feel differently. That would only be the beginning. Then you would have to deal with the people that got the spam. It isn't any fun. The people that it happens to are usually not very computer literate at all. Sort of like using a car and finding advertisements all over it that you didn't put there, and then people wanting to beat you up for it too. So you clean up your car and it happens again and again and again. Unless you have a better method to stop people from spamming, jail is the only real way we have to deter them. Studies show that jail does work. Not putting them in jail simply encourages them.
Tell us the truth, are you a spammer?
They issued an AD for DC-10, 747 and L-1011 aircraft to correct this. It didn't require a door change from an outty to an inny. It simply changed how it locked so as to make sure the pins engauged when closed or it wouldn't close. They also changed the circuitry to closed loop so the light in the cockpit would show up when it really was locked. Rest assured, there are plenty of them still out there today. DC-3 - DC-10 aircraft and that is only Douglass aircraft. Some Boeings did the same thing. It was a carry over from when they weren't pressurized. Of course the DC-3 is a very old plane now, still flying though. They can be purchased for around $100,000. Better ones go upwards of $250,000 depending on what is in them.
I have used that door myself many times on the shuttle from NYC to Washington. I never did know how they opened it, just that it was opened and I could beat the heck out of the rush by going out the back. I had a lot of other things to worry about rather than how they did it... like where the heck I parked. Could be a jack-screw that opened it. That would save weight and they are very strong. Less to go wrong too.
The original thing I was talking about didn't require a jack. It was the door that was on the port side of a DC-10. Depending on the model it was a cargo door or a loading door for food. The FAA put out an AD for correcting those doors on DC-10, 747 and the L 1011. They have doors that open outwards too. The AD didn't change the door from an outty to an inny, it simply required circuitry and a change to the door's mechanism such that it wasn't possible to close the door without the pins being properly engauged and the circuitry was to make sure it really is locked shut. Shows up in the cockpit. You would be nuts to jump out even if you could as it is very likely you will get killed doing it.
Got a family that picks too? Because the family that picks together sticks together.
With a parachute he leaped from the back tail-fan door. Otherwise, don't do it even if you could. It would be rather unpleasant. Some of the old birds, their doors opened outwards and not into the cabin. That was a design change due to an accident, on an aircraft on its delivery flight. The door wasn't completely closed and the new crew didn't know it. Not sure if any of them are still in service. They might be considering a number of 747s and other aircraft from the 1960s are still in service.
Don't be an idiot. Linux has been used in telco, banking, wall street, appliances and even spacecraft for years without a problem. I have to agree with RedHat on this one. I have used Novell's Xen and I have had a lot of problems. It works a lot better under Fedora Core 5, however I wouldn't use it for real yet. Stick it back in, it isn't done yet.
Lost your device? Just answer what your dog's name is (Cujo) or what you wanted to be when you grew up (Convenience store attendant, just like Apu).