Some years ago I stopped using Family Tree Maker genealogy software because it wouldn't work unless my computer was connected to the Internet. There are lots of other genealogy programs out there that don't require a constant Internet connection and I quickly settled on Roots Magic for most of my record keeping. I also now use Legacy for some chores. Good-bye FTM.
Shades of many years ago, listening to shortwave radio :
Hello Skyking, Skyking. This is Andrews, this is Andrews. Do not answer. Do not answer. Break, break. SOB SISTER ECHO. SOB SISTER ECHO. Break, break. Authentication TANGO WHISKEY one niner. TANGO WHISKEY one niner. Authentication time two three one three four five ZULU. Two three one three four five ZULU. Break, break. I say again, I say again. Hello Skyking, Skyking....
I know those SAC crews loved their jobs, but what craziness. And here we go again.
Now that's funny! Mod him up, please. Although the above comment was in jest (I think), I am Canadian and can completely believe that this might have happened at Air Canada. And at Rogers Cable too. It would explain so much. My god, that guy really did get around! I'm still chuckling...
No, but if another news service or an op-ed writer quotes just the headline with its embedded untruth and without investigating further, the original "editorial oversight" begins to take on a life of its own. Voila — fake news! Isn't that how it has so often happened?
To the Moderator --
Please move the above comment to the article for which it was intended. (I expect it was the item about Equifax, several items up the page.)
Excuse me, but a "threefold increase" as quoted in the summary does not equal a "400 percent rise" as mentioned in the headline.
Who writes these headlines and where did they learn to do arithmetic?? For the record, a threefold increase equals a 200% rise. Maybe this evident innumeracy is somehow connected with the apparent rise in fascism mentioned by another reader.
Clear skies but only about 60% total. Observed using a small telescope used in projection-mode (for safe viewing). I also took continuous precision frequency measurements of radio station WWV near Boulder Colorado on a frequency of 10.0 MHz. Did this for 8 hours on the day of the eclipse and the day before (for control). My measurements clearly showed the ionospheric Doppler shifting of the signal from WWV as the moving zone of totality crossed over the radio signal path from WWV to my location. Uploaded almost 1.4 GB of data to the Ham SCI community at zenodo.org.
My wife and I were amazed at the strange lighting effect of the reduced sunlight near maximum (60%). Talk about a pale sun! Many of our garden flowers closed, at least partially, and all the birds seemed to disappear too.
Why would the device cease to function over time? It might just not accomodate any new formats or provide new features which would otherwise be available from the firmware updates. But it shouldn't the device still work with formats and features available at the time of manufacture? Is the Sonos really threatening to shut it down if you don't agree to their policy???
Sorry, Phil, but the OP's coax is RG-59 which has a solid copper center conductor and no aluminum foil in the shield, only more copper braid (tinned). It is good stuff. Probably worth more than he realizes.
I think this last option (over powering the studio-transmitter link) is much more likely. Even a low-power radio used by the pirate in the vicinity of the station's transmitter site could over-power the weaker signal from the distant studio. So the transmitter site receives only the signal from the pirate and not the weaker signal from the studio, especially if the STL uses frequency modulation (FM) (and I think most of them do). This trick is easy to do, and I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I don't know why it is, but many of the companies that I buy stuff from over the Internet assume automatically that I want it delivered "tomorrow" or within 3 days at the most. If I needed stuff that fast, I would go to the store and buy it there, or I would have bought it all a month ago in preparation for what I am doing today.
So when I buy stuff over the Internet, it usually doesn't matter when it comes and I prefer that they ship it by Canada Post, or USPS, or the Royal Mail, whatever. I am not in a hurry and surface mail is just fine. We get very good mail delivery where I live and if a parcel is too big for my box then I go to the Post Office to pick it up, knowing that it is safe and secure.
What really bugs me is having to deal with the so-called courier companies who invariably come while I am not at home and leave stuff on the porch or leave a notice on my doorknob. They say they will "attempt delivery" again tomorrow but, No, no one comes even though I have made a point of staying at home, alert to the driveway and door. Then I end up having to drive all the way into the city to pick up my parcel at the courier's office anyway. Give me the Post Office any day!
Let those who need 72-hour delivery pay extra for it and leave me alone with much cheaper shipping charges and delivery within two or three weeks. I am fine with that.
Actually, my first home computer was a slide rule, both at home and at work. But when they became available I bought a Commodore 64 with a floppy disk drive and a printer. Used it for everything, especially word processing (what a relief being able to easily correct my typing mistakes before sending a letter) and even had a little database program for all of my genealogy research. What a big aid to organization that was! On weekends my son used it for games, and for re-writing those games. He already knew BASIC (by absorption I guess) so I learned it too. And I got a cartridge for the C-64 that enabled me to send and receive AMTOR digital signals with my ham radio transceiver.
Meanwhile, at work, I was doing assembler language (PAL) on a DEC PDP-8 for data acquisition and processing in a small lab. Those were the days!!
A little later I bought an 80286 for home. Today you can buy three or four computers for what I paid my my '286.
The rest of us just found out about it on the internet a few minutes after it happened.
What you get a few minutes after the event is less that 5% of the story and is based mostly on rumours and speculation. What I get the next day in my newspaper is almost 90% of the story and the journalists (if they are any good, depends on the newspaper) have already eliminated most of the speculation and rumours. Anachronistic a newspaper might be, but depending on the paper it can certainly deliver a more accurate, balanced and realistic view of the world.
God, I am so tired of TV news programs that show jiggly, bouncy, shaky video clips from some "witness's" cell phone. These clips rarely contain any useful or even relevant information and whatever might have been learned from them is totally obscured by all the camera motion. And the TV producers think it is news! More often than not, I have been quite happy to wait until next morning to read all about the event, whatever it was, in the newspaper.
So glad you asked. I am about a quarter of the way through "The War On Science" (2016) by Shawn Otto, subtitled "Who's waging it; why it matters; what we can do about it".
I had already read "Censoring Science" (2008) by Mark Bowen and "The Republican Ware on Science" (2005) by Chris Mooney, but Otto's new book is so much broader, detailed, encompassing, historical, philosophical, up-to-date, and forward-looking, that it is hands down a must read for all citizens, and not just of the United States. Though I live in North American, I am not an 'American' citizen, so I won't get into politics except to note that no political party escapes Otto's critical examination. If you care about your country, please read this book.
The Canadian Parliament has just passed a bill making this sort of thing illegal. http://www.hilltimes.com/2017/...
It is a little late, but health care is a provincial matter and there was a reluctance to tread on the provincial toes. Since the provinces have done nothing about privacy of genetic testing, the federal parliamentarians felt it necessary to do something at the national level.
(I apologize for the lack of acceptable formatting.)
GM is an American company; VW is not. Look what the US government did to Toyota (another non-US company) about their so-called uncontrolled acceleration problem. As far as I know, none of the documented cases ever provided proof that the car was at fault. Yet, Toyota paid dearly in reputation, PR, and money for this anxiety-inducing "problem". After the dust settled on this, the press was full of stories about how elderly drivers got their pedals mixed up or tried to accelerate when they were in a different gear than they intended.
Just because an M-type dwarf will burn for 1000 times longer than our sun doesn't necessarily mean that any civilization in orbit around an M-type star is already older than we are.
Sorry, but a change from 235 requests to 564 is an increase of only 140%, not 240%. Doesn't anyone at the Washington Post know how to calculate percentage changes correctly? I find this is a common problem with journalists. Maybe they have a point about the nature of the problem, but to claim an increase of 240% when it is only really 140% is just hype. Incorrect and preventable errors of journalism.
... had 235 requests in 2012... By 2013, requests in the District had climbed 240 percent, to about 564...
And you absolutely DON'T actually need to buy a new Garmin every six months (though it is a good comparison!). Most Garmin devices for cars come with free lifetime map updates. My wife and I own a Garmin 2360LM and a 40LM and they work just fine, mounted on our cars' dashes. I check a couple of times a year to download the available updates and the data rarely lets us down. (Only ever due to new construction.) The only times we ever lose signal to navigate is while driving in tunnels or slowly under large bridges, and we have always known exactly where we were at the time so we weren't bothered by LOS (loss of signal).
I suppose their intent is that this fridge will be able to manage supplies and demands the same way that my mother so effortlessly and effectively managed our ice box and pantry in our very dynamic household when I was a kid. She had learned her stuff from my grandmother and added a few tricks and neat solutions to the repertoire, doing all of it everyday in her head and without blinking an eyelash in the face of last-minute changes in the number of chairs around the table and last-minute confessions to the "Who ate all the..." question. And today we need a computer to do this? What a waste of resources!
If I read this correctly, there is still nothing wrong with using BLOWFISH to encrypt files on your computer, etc. Just don't use it to secure a VPN. Have I missed something?
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Some years ago I stopped using Family Tree Maker genealogy software because it wouldn't work unless my computer was connected to the Internet. There are lots of other genealogy programs out there that don't require a constant Internet connection and I quickly settled on Roots Magic for most of my record keeping. I also now use Legacy for some chores. Good-bye FTM.
Shades of many years ago, listening to shortwave radio :
....
Hello Skyking, Skyking. This is Andrews, this is Andrews. Do not answer. Do not answer. Break, break. SOB SISTER ECHO. SOB SISTER ECHO. Break, break. Authentication TANGO WHISKEY one niner. TANGO WHISKEY one niner. Authentication time two three one three four five ZULU. Two three one three four five ZULU. Break, break. I say again, I say again. Hello Skyking, Skyking
I know those SAC crews loved their jobs, but what craziness. And here we go again.
because AC always runs that way.
Now that's funny! Mod him up, please. Although the above comment was in jest (I think), I am Canadian and can completely believe that this might have happened at Air Canada. And at Rogers Cable too. It would explain so much. My god, that guy really did get around! I'm still chuckling ...
No, but if another news service or an op-ed writer quotes just the headline with its embedded untruth and without investigating further, the original "editorial oversight" begins to take on a life of its own. Voila — fake news! Isn't that how it has so often happened?
To the Moderator --
Please move the above comment to the article for which it was intended. (I expect it was the item about Equifax, several items up the page.)
The bad arithmetic first appears in the article at thenextweb.com and has been repeated, unquestioningly, by slashdot. Tsk, tsk.
My name isn't Trump but I would call this fake news.
Excuse me, but a "threefold increase" as quoted in the summary does not equal a "400 percent rise" as mentioned in the headline.
Who writes these headlines and where did they learn to do arithmetic?? For the record, a threefold increase equals a 200% rise. Maybe this evident innumeracy is somehow connected with the apparent rise in fascism mentioned by another reader.
Clear skies but only about 60% total. Observed using a small telescope used in projection-mode (for safe viewing). I also took continuous precision frequency measurements of radio station WWV near Boulder Colorado on a frequency of 10.0 MHz. Did this for 8 hours on the day of the eclipse and the day before (for control). My measurements clearly showed the ionospheric Doppler shifting of the signal from WWV as the moving zone of totality crossed over the radio signal path from WWV to my location. Uploaded almost 1.4 GB of data to the Ham SCI community at zenodo.org.
My wife and I were amazed at the strange lighting effect of the reduced sunlight near maximum (60%). Talk about a pale sun! Many of our garden flowers closed, at least partially, and all the birds seemed to disappear too.
Why would the device cease to function over time? It might just not accomodate any new formats or provide new features which would otherwise be available from the firmware updates. But it shouldn't the device still work with formats and features available at the time of manufacture? Is the Sonos really threatening to shut it down if you don't agree to their policy???
Sorry, Phil, but the OP's coax is RG-59 which has a solid copper center conductor and no aluminum foil in the shield, only more copper braid (tinned). It is good stuff. Probably worth more than he realizes.
I love it! You're a hero!
I think this last option (over powering the studio-transmitter link) is much more likely. Even a low-power radio used by the pirate in the vicinity of the station's transmitter site could over-power the weaker signal from the distant studio. So the transmitter site receives only the signal from the pirate and not the weaker signal from the studio, especially if the STL uses frequency modulation (FM) (and I think most of them do). This trick is easy to do, and I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I don't know why it is, but many of the companies that I buy stuff from over the Internet assume automatically that I want it delivered "tomorrow" or within 3 days at the most. If I needed stuff that fast, I would go to the store and buy it there, or I would have bought it all a month ago in preparation for what I am doing today.
So when I buy stuff over the Internet, it usually doesn't matter when it comes and I prefer that they ship it by Canada Post, or USPS, or the Royal Mail, whatever. I am not in a hurry and surface mail is just fine. We get very good mail delivery where I live and if a parcel is too big for my box then I go to the Post Office to pick it up, knowing that it is safe and secure.
What really bugs me is having to deal with the so-called courier companies who invariably come while I am not at home and leave stuff on the porch or leave a notice on my doorknob. They say they will "attempt delivery" again tomorrow but, No, no one comes even though I have made a point of staying at home, alert to the driveway and door. Then I end up having to drive all the way into the city to pick up my parcel at the courier's office anyway. Give me the Post Office any day!
Let those who need 72-hour delivery pay extra for it and leave me alone with much cheaper shipping charges and delivery within two or three weeks. I am fine with that.
Actually, my first home computer was a slide rule, both at home and at work. But when they became available I bought a Commodore 64 with a floppy disk drive and a printer. Used it for everything, especially word processing (what a relief being able to easily correct my typing mistakes before sending a letter) and even had a little database program for all of my genealogy research. What a big aid to organization that was! On weekends my son used it for games, and for re-writing those games. He already knew BASIC (by absorption I guess) so I learned it too. And I got a cartridge for the C-64 that enabled me to send and receive AMTOR digital signals with my ham radio transceiver.
Meanwhile, at work, I was doing assembler language (PAL) on a DEC PDP-8 for data acquisition and processing in a small lab. Those were the days!!
A little later I bought an 80286 for home. Today you can buy three or four computers for what I paid my my '286.
What you get a few minutes after the event is less that 5% of the story and is based mostly on rumours and speculation. What I get the next day in my newspaper is almost 90% of the story and the journalists (if they are any good, depends on the newspaper) have already eliminated most of the speculation and rumours. Anachronistic a newspaper might be, but depending on the paper it can certainly deliver a more accurate, balanced and realistic view of the world.
God, I am so tired of TV news programs that show jiggly, bouncy, shaky video clips from some "witness's" cell phone. These clips rarely contain any useful or even relevant information and whatever might have been learned from them is totally obscured by all the camera motion. And the TV producers think it is news! More often than not, I have been quite happy to wait until next morning to read all about the event, whatever it was, in the newspaper.
So glad you asked. I am about a quarter of the way through "The War On Science" (2016) by Shawn Otto, subtitled "Who's waging it; why it matters; what we can do about it".
I had already read "Censoring Science" (2008) by Mark Bowen and "The Republican Ware on Science" (2005) by Chris Mooney, but Otto's new book is so much broader, detailed, encompassing, historical, philosophical, up-to-date, and forward-looking, that it is hands down a must read for all citizens, and not just of the United States. Though I live in North American, I am not an 'American' citizen, so I won't get into politics except to note that no political party escapes Otto's critical examination. If you care about your country, please read this book.
The Canadian Parliament has just passed a bill making this sort of thing illegal.
http://www.hilltimes.com/2017/...
It is a little late, but health care is a provincial matter and there was a reluctance to tread on the provincial toes. Since the provinces have done nothing about privacy of genetic testing, the federal parliamentarians felt it necessary to do something at the national level.
(I apologize for the lack of acceptable formatting.)
GM is an American company; VW is not. Look what the US government did to Toyota (another non-US company) about their so-called uncontrolled acceleration problem. As far as I know, none of the documented cases ever provided proof that the car was at fault. Yet, Toyota paid dearly in reputation, PR, and money for this anxiety-inducing "problem". After the dust settled on this, the press was full of stories about how elderly drivers got their pedals mixed up or tried to accelerate when they were in a different gear than they intended.
Just because an M-type dwarf will burn for 1000 times longer than our sun doesn't necessarily mean that any civilization in orbit around an M-type star is already older than we are.
And you absolutely DON'T actually need to buy a new Garmin every six months (though it is a good comparison!). Most Garmin devices for cars come with free lifetime map updates. My wife and I own a Garmin 2360LM and a 40LM and they work just fine, mounted on our cars' dashes. I check a couple of times a year to download the available updates and the data rarely lets us down. (Only ever due to new construction.) The only times we ever lose signal to navigate is while driving in tunnels or slowly under large bridges, and we have always known exactly where we were at the time so we weren't bothered by LOS (loss of signal).
I suppose their intent is that this fridge will be able to manage supplies and demands the same way that my mother so effortlessly and effectively managed our ice box and pantry in our very dynamic household when I was a kid. She had learned her stuff from my grandmother and added a few tricks and neat solutions to the repertoire, doing all of it everyday in her head and without blinking an eyelash in the face of last-minute changes in the number of chairs around the table and last-minute confessions to the "Who ate all the ..." question. And today we need a computer to do this? What a waste of resources!
we'll have the same problem with facial recognition and licenses as we do with names on the "no fly" list.
"that new licenses will no longer be issued until a photo clears their database."
If I read this correctly, there is still nothing wrong with using BLOWFISH to encrypt files on your computer, etc. Just don't use it to secure a VPN. Have I missed something?