Since I already bought a PS3 and it came with a Blu-Ray as an extra (and pretty soon 1 million others will be in the same boat), I'd just prefer if Blu-Ray wins. Come on, we all know it's a superior standard.
God the blu-ray discs look awesome as well.
If you'd bothered to read the article, you'd see that the reason he was unable to read slashdot was due to the EARTHQUAKE limiting connectivity over there. Not any chinese censorship.
They don't exactly have any choice. That up front message that says "This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes" also gives YOU the right to record the call.
Only Sony could mess up a launch worse than Microsoft.
The Zune is just going to piss off all of the Microsoft Allies (Creative and so on) AND piss off the consumers by not letting them play music that they already now own.
But editors found extensive problems in several cases, with many still not yet fully checked.
Articles with offending passages have been stripped of most text. An entire paragraph in Alonzo Clark's entry, for instance, was deleted, leaving the article with the bare-bones: "Alonzo M. Clark (August 13, 1868-October 12, 1952) was an American politician who was Governor of Wyoming from 1931 to 1933."
The original article, Brandt said, was copied from a biography on the Wyoming state government site.
Uh, OK, but there really isn't anything wrong with that, as long as it's cited. If it's on the Wyoming state government site, it's public domain. Works that the government puts out should all be public domain. (Taxpayers.. paid for them. There is no copyright.)
I still like absentee balloting best. There's a voter verifiable paper trail, despite all the jokes about the post office, they do treat absentee balloting very respectfully and carefully and it's quite secure. 90% of washington now votes by absentee ballot, so we've got to be doing something right.
A smart mouse? Skynet is here... and it's in MOUSE form. Just what we were least expecting... figures, that's how it slipped past the security nets!
Watch out! It's coming from inside the house!!... er... mouse. "This mouse also has way too many fucking buttons, including useless feature 1, useless feature 2, waste of space and money 3, which we think everybody will enjoy!"
"Honey, get me a beer?"
"I'm busy."
"I said... a beer, woman!" *zap* "Thank you."
It works in reverse too..
"Honey, can you finish building the deck?"
"I'm busy"
"I said.. finish building the deck!" *zap*
Yknow it really brings new meaning to couples fighting over the remote control....
Til a contractor doesn't get a locate and hits the line. Or, a car runs into a padmount xfmr. Also, the ground doesn't exactly stay still. Problems occur during the summer especially, and locating and repairing bad underground cable takes a lot longer than repairing an overhead service line. Additionally, underground service is ridiculously more expensive to put in existing areas. Overhead service just makes more sense in some parts of the system.
(Also, the hi-lines are going to be overhead no matter what you do..)
Speaking as a customer service rep at a electrical utility, I think it would be one of my more NORMAL calls.
Typically speaking though, meters do not 'speed up.' With age, they slow down which does not work in the utility's favor, which is why they usually have a periodic meter replacement program, ie every 5 years.
I haven't ever sent out a service order on a meter that's ever tested too fast.
Many utility companies (like the one I work for) have automated metering, with meters transmitting at 917mhz back to a poletop box every 5 minutes for a second or so. (Like a cordless phone). What that means is that a lot of companies now have on their website a means for you to view your usage every day, so you can go online the next day after running your hot tub for a few hours and see how much extra you used in number and graph form.
But back to accuracy, typically, on a service order when a field rep goes out to test a meter, they will find the cause of the increased usage... like a new hot tub that was just installed:)
Meters all have to be tested to NIST standards...
(from here: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/nhouse/watt.htm
"NIST and Your Electricity Bill")
No one needs reminding about those meters with little turning wheels that the power company uses for determining your monthly electricity bills. It may be of some solace to know there is a third party out there who is helping to make sure those watt-hour meters, as they are known, accurately record the amount of power you are using. That way you don't pay for more electricity than you actually use, and, in all fairness, the power company doesn't end up giving away its products for free.
This two-way assurance rests upon a short chain of calibrations anchored at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where the ultimate power meter lives. The accuracy of every watt-hour meter in the country ultimately is traceable to the Electricity Division of NIST's Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. Most watt-hour meters are electromechanical devices in which a tiny portion of the electrical power going through it is converted into the mechanical clock-like motions that move the meter's dials. Just as clocks can be fast or slow, so too can watt-hour meters be off. That is why state public utility commissions (PUCs) own and maintain standard watt-hour meters with which they can certify the accuracy of mass-manufactured meters. Meters pass when they produce the same power reading as the standard meter when the same amount of current passes through them.
NIST provides the ultimate basis for these measurements because the standard meters of the PUCs go through periodic calibrations at NIST in which the amount of electricity going through a meter can be more accurately and confidently measured than anywhere else in the country. Once the standard watt-hour meters pass muster at NIST, they can serve as genuine gatekeepers for the much larger population of residential and business watt-hour meters.
You're right. There's definately cause for concern - there are now so many weak spots in the system. A lot of people with access to these important databases are making less than $10/hr. If you find the right person, $15,000 would get you whatever information or passwords you need - or worse, making changes in records or deleting information. It happens too with corporate espionage. Somebody at the help desk might be convinced to hand over the CEO's email account password to a competitor. If I've got $15,000 and find the right person, can I get your name on a terrorist watch list?
I think this has always been around, but with the proliferation of the digital era, it becomes easier to make a thousand copies of something. Look at medical records, it used to take a few minutes while they looked for your chart. At the medical clinic I currently go to they can locate you instantly. When you go into the doctor's office, he has your information on-screen. If something like a patient's chart goes missing, there's physical evidence that it's gone. But if a computer is poorly secured, you may not ever realized it was compromised. What really bothers me is who is purchasing this information. My medical records would be pretty harmless to most people, but what if a coworker with a grudge were to find out about a deadly allergy I have? There's always that scary potential you don't necessarily think about.
What if a terrorist uses your identity to get into the country and commit nefarious deeds? Could you be imprisoned while they go free?
The "basic user" who is only using it for email/internet/office is going to be very afraid to switch, unwilling, upset and just generally not happy about the change. I've seen it happen in my workplace, where a large number of the workers are just barely competant in Windows to do what they want. Try to force a new operating system on them, and you'll have mass revolt.
It's better to offer it as an option, and slowly push it. It also gives them a chance to work out the kinks on the users who don't mind as much (since they were willing to be earlier-adopters). Eventually, the afraid huddling masses will say, "Hey, how did you do that? That's pretty cool, I can't do that on my Windows system" and they'll train each other on it. But that will take time. So... that's the extremely drawn out answer of 'why' they won't immediately make it the standard.
Does it really matter? I'm sure this guy has a different story, and we haven't heard his side. You are just presuming based off what the homeowner told the reporter and police.
Point is, he didn't do anything illegal aside from property trespassing et al, he should not be charged with "computer trespass in the 3rd degree" since he was using an OPEN access point.
Wow, I think your server is about to experience a deep impact also. One's hurtling towards space at ridiculous speeds... and the other's a spaceship aimed at a comet.
ICANN'T even.tel you how bad this news is for the internet community at large. ICANN and the root dns need to Server all ties with the bush administration.
(oh god... I am a horrible person).
Well, the IT policy prevents installing any software. I can't blame them for that, but I would probably be fired or written up for installing Firefox (or at least yelled at).
You run into that at a lot of large corporations these days.
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Since I already bought a PS3 and it came with a Blu-Ray as an extra (and pretty soon 1 million others will be in the same boat), I'd just prefer if Blu-Ray wins. Come on, we all know it's a superior standard. God the blu-ray discs look awesome as well.
If you'd bothered to read the article, you'd see that the reason he was unable to read slashdot was due to the EARTHQUAKE limiting connectivity over there. Not any chinese censorship.
They don't exactly have any choice. That up front message that says "This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes" also gives YOU the right to record the call.
I think I just had a nerdgasm.
All I can say is.. good! Welcome to our world. I'm not trying to troll, but I'm pleased to hear this.
Only Sony could mess up a launch worse than Microsoft. The Zune is just going to piss off all of the Microsoft Allies (Creative and so on) AND piss off the consumers by not letting them play music that they already now own.
The new voting machines are mandatory, absentee balloting is not, it was chosen by the people.
I still like absentee balloting best. There's a voter verifiable paper trail, despite all the jokes about the post office, they do treat absentee balloting very respectfully and carefully and it's quite secure. 90% of washington now votes by absentee ballot, so we've got to be doing something right.
Usually, Trillian, MIRC, Firefox (w/ tabs), Outlook, and Itunes.
A smart mouse? Skynet is here... and it's in MOUSE form.
Just what we were least expecting... figures, that's how it slipped past the security nets!
Watch out! It's coming from inside the house!!... er... mouse.
"This mouse also has way too many fucking buttons, including useless feature 1, useless feature 2, waste of space and money 3, which we think everybody will enjoy!"
Thank god us disenfranched, now-homeless AC2 players have somewhere to move to now.
Yes.. nobody will call you a nut anymore...
Hey, wait a sec...
Let me guess.. the only thing that blocks these contrails...
-- a tinfoil hat?
"Honey, get me a beer?" "I'm busy." "I said... a beer, woman!" *zap* "Thank you." It works in reverse too.. "Honey, can you finish building the deck?" "I'm busy" "I said.. finish building the deck!" *zap* Yknow it really brings new meaning to couples fighting over the remote control....
Til a contractor doesn't get a locate and hits the line. Or, a car runs into a padmount xfmr. Also, the ground doesn't exactly stay still. Problems occur during the summer especially, and locating and repairing bad underground cable takes a lot longer than repairing an overhead service line. Additionally, underground service is ridiculously more expensive to put in existing areas. Overhead service just makes more sense in some parts of the system. (Also, the hi-lines are going to be overhead no matter what you do..)
Speaking as a customer service rep at a electrical utility, I think it would be one of my more NORMAL calls. :)m
"NIST and Your Electricity Bill")
No one needs reminding about those meters with little turning wheels that the power company uses for determining your monthly electricity bills. It may be of some solace to know there is a third party out there who is helping to make sure those watt-hour meters, as they are known, accurately record the amount of power you are using. That way you don't pay for more electricity than you actually use, and, in all fairness, the power company doesn't end up giving away its products for free.
Typically speaking though, meters do not 'speed up.' With age, they slow down which does not work in the utility's favor, which is why they usually have a periodic meter replacement program, ie every 5 years.
I haven't ever sent out a service order on a meter that's ever tested too fast.
Many utility companies (like the one I work for) have automated metering, with meters transmitting at 917mhz back to a poletop box every 5 minutes for a second or so. (Like a cordless phone). What that means is that a lot of companies now have on their website a means for you to view your usage every day, so you can go online the next day after running your hot tub for a few hours and see how much extra you used in number and graph form.
But back to accuracy, typically, on a service order when a field rep goes out to test a meter, they will find the cause of the increased usage... like a new hot tub that was just installed
Meters all have to be tested to NIST standards... (from here: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/nhouse/watt.ht
This two-way assurance rests upon a short chain of calibrations anchored at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where the ultimate power meter lives. The accuracy of every watt-hour meter in the country ultimately is traceable to the Electricity Division of NIST's Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory. Most watt-hour meters are electromechanical devices in which a tiny portion of the electrical power going through it is converted into the mechanical clock-like motions that move the meter's dials. Just as clocks can be fast or slow, so too can watt-hour meters be off. That is why state public utility commissions (PUCs) own and maintain standard watt-hour meters with which they can certify the accuracy of mass-manufactured meters. Meters pass when they produce the same power reading as the standard meter when the same amount of current passes through them.
NIST provides the ultimate basis for these measurements because the standard meters of the PUCs go through periodic calibrations at NIST in which the amount of electricity going through a meter can be more accurately and confidently measured than anywhere else in the country. Once the standard watt-hour meters pass muster at NIST, they can serve as genuine gatekeepers for the much larger population of residential and business watt-hour meters.
You're right. There's definately cause for concern - there are now so many weak spots in the system. A lot of people with access to these important databases are making less than $10/hr. If you find the right person, $15,000 would get you whatever information or passwords you need - or worse, making changes in records or deleting information.
It happens too with corporate espionage. Somebody at the help desk might be convinced to hand over the CEO's email account password to a competitor. If I've got $15,000 and find the right person, can I get your name on a terrorist watch list?
I think this has always been around, but with the proliferation of the digital era, it becomes easier to make a thousand copies of something.
Look at medical records, it used to take a few minutes while they looked for your chart. At the medical clinic I currently go to they can locate you instantly. When you go into the doctor's office, he has your information on-screen. If something like a patient's chart goes missing, there's physical evidence that it's gone. But if a computer is poorly secured, you may not ever realized it was compromised.
What really bothers me is who is purchasing this information. My medical records would be pretty harmless to most people, but what if a coworker with a grudge were to find out about a deadly allergy I have? There's always that scary potential you don't necessarily think about. What if a terrorist uses your identity to get into the country and commit nefarious deeds? Could you be imprisoned while they go free?
The "basic user" who is only using it for email/internet/office is going to be very afraid to switch, unwilling, upset and just generally not happy about the change. I've seen it happen in my workplace, where a large number of the workers are just barely competant in Windows to do what they want. Try to force a new operating system on them, and you'll have mass revolt.
It's better to offer it as an option, and slowly push it. It also gives them a chance to work out the kinks on the users who don't mind as much (since they were willing to be earlier-adopters).
Eventually, the afraid huddling masses will say, "Hey, how did you do that? That's pretty cool, I can't do that on my Windows system" and they'll train each other on it. But that will take time.
So... that's the extremely drawn out answer of 'why' they won't immediately make it the standard.
Does it really matter? I'm sure this guy has a different story, and we haven't heard his side. You are just presuming based off what the homeowner told the reporter and police. Point is, he didn't do anything illegal aside from property trespassing et al, he should not be charged with "computer trespass in the 3rd degree" since he was using an OPEN access point.
Wow, I think your server is about to experience a deep impact also.
One's hurtling towards space at ridiculous speeds... and the other's a spaceship aimed at a comet.
ICANN'T even .tel you how bad this news is for the internet community at large. ICANN and the root dns need to Server all ties with the bush administration.
(oh god... I am a horrible person).
In addition to other energy conservation techniques, they've asked Godzilla to take fewer showers. That guy, like, he uses a lot of water, man.
http://www.mealpay.com/ sends me to https://www.mealpay.com/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx w/ the latest Firefox, unless I spoof my user-agent to be IE 6.0.
Well, the IT policy prevents installing any software. I can't blame them for that, but I would probably be fired or written up for installing Firefox (or at least yelled at). You run into that at a lot of large corporations these days.