There's the issue of WiFi having quite complex propergation patterns. Whereas with visible light to can easily tell where the coverage area and confine it to specific rooms without needing exotic building materials.
Not really... visible light can be as unpredictable... light reflects off walls and floors and can propagate quite far... you can be upstairs in bed and notice the downstairs light is still on since there is a faint light visible around the edges of the closed bedroom door...
Don't forget to paint over the windows or your competitors only need to rent a room across the road to get all your datas...
The big problem with these things is they need to be lighting the room for the data to flow... when everyone goes home and someone turns out the lights it cuts off all the PCs in the room and you can't do remote admin stuff like software updates and security patches. The solution of leaving the lights on will get the environment crazies on your back.
The health and safety people will probably have a thing or two to say about this as well since the level of office lighting is subject to legal controls in most countries...
The funny thing is.... No one knows if this speed-up is a natural cycle, or if there's really something out of whack with the core.
My money's on it being solar flairs and accelerated by the cumulative magnetic fields on all those electric/hybrid engines that are supposed to be 'good' for the planet...
Don't knock it... the number of scareware / fake virus scanner infections I have been cleaning recently from friends computers would suggest these attacks are becoming more frequent and harder to spot as malicious until it is too late...
If IE9 is as good as they claim at stopping these then my steady supply of good single malt whisky will dry up, which is bad for me and bad for bot nets but good for everyone else...
More than three-quarters (80%) of Americans regularly limit access to personal information posted to social media sites and make use of privacy settings
Does anyone here believe that one for one second?
It depends... Does only allowing 'friends of friends' on facebook to see your post on how drunk you got last night count? Even though the real threat to your personal data is that silly little quiz app that you allowed unrestricted access of your entire profile...
"Do you support the president having the authority to launch nuclear missiles in response to unfavorable comments by foreign leaders?"
Anyone else have the following facebook scenario flash into their mind?
USA: Just sold some awesome weapon tech to Iraq IRAN: We don't think you should be doing that, no matter how much money they gave you since we don't like them. USA: And? We are big, we don't care what you think... IRAN: Go screw yourself! IRAN is no longer friends with USA USA: You will pay in time! USA is no longer friends with Iran USA has launched some nukes at Iran.
A mechanism to shut down (ie. disconnect from the rest of the world) part of the (American portion of the) internet (since, for the most part at least, there are too many possible routes in and out of most countries for any one country to be able to totally disconnect a country other than itself) is a potential weak point and a target for an attack.
Such a system would increase any security risks defeating the whole purpose... no sane country would mandate such a thing.
I bought a pack of batteries from, Asda with total value of 1.99 that was tagged (I guess becuase they are easily stolen), but since I used the 'express' checkout the overkill security tag sticker wasn't deactivated.
Since I was going to be going into other shops with alarms I really needed to get it disabled so I looked around for the member of staff that was supposed to be stopping me... and after 5 minutes and setting the thing off for the 6th time I went all the way back to the checkout (which was quite far as it was a big store!) and got a checkout operator to de-tag it... and she didn't even look at my receipt.
I wish I had thought about it a bit more... I could have easily taken a big TV and no one would have noticed...
But isn't 'yes' the correct answer anyway? Or at least the centre of the visible universe since you can only see as far as light could travel since the Big Bang and that distance is the same in all directions from whatever point you happen to be observing from...
What the crazies are pushing and deliberately confusing the truth with is that everything in the universe orbits the earth which is just wako...
The people who's job it is to make sure that GE don't go out of business putting everyone out of a job.
Management can calculate things ANY WAY THEY WANT TO.
But those calculations have to stand up to the scrutiny of the shareholders. Since they stated that the 50% more was 'even after' (ie. not counting) the refit costs this is a relatively simple one... cost of materials is X, buildings and staff (and tax) cost is Y, and we will make Z bulbs. (X+Y)/Z = A*1.50 where A is the cost of a bulb from China.
Of course you could argue that one of the reasons foreign goods are so cheap is because US workers weren't willing to put up with unsafe places to work which makes it harder to build anything and comply with safety legislation and (not) be sued every 5 minutes by careless workers so the soon to be unemployed bulb makers only have themselves to blame. If this is a good or bad thing depends on your point of view...
To interact with the stamp, a user needs to download the Junaio application, available from the iPhone’s App Store or the Android Market, the Royal Mail said. This can then be used to snap an image of the stamp, which triggers a short film of English character actor Bernard Cribbins reading W H Auden’s poem, “The Night Mail”.
So let me get this right...
1) Buy stamp with one of 6 pictures on it 2) Download App onto your phone using part of my monthly quota (and possibly have to pay for the App as well) 3) Using the App have it recognize one of 6 images (remember Google goggles can manage images of tons of things...) 4) Use the phone to download and read/listen to some web content using more of my quota on the tiny screen and low quality speaker
Seems complex and expensive when it could be
1) Put a short and easy to remember web address of the content on the bottom of the stamps and maybe some posters in the Post Office (the few that are left) 2) Type the address into my web browser on my PC with big screen, good speakers and unlimited use...
Or
1) Go to local library, borrow book for free with many poems including the one relating to the stamps on it and read while enjoying the sunshine...
Sometimes technology is not the answer you have been looking for
Oops forgot......or have bot/trojan infested computers using the bandwidth or just plain inadequate computers or wonder why the illegal porn they are accessing from an underpowered server in someones basement in some distant, poorly connected part of the globe can't max out their connection or why the cheap wireless router they are using is suffering collision/interference problems or just can't cope with 2000 torrent connections (because more is faster right?!?) or they are saturating their upstream bandwidth with torrent seeding causing control packets to be dropped and causing multiple unneeded data retransmits or have crappy anitvirus software that slows everything down...
Take a look at Virgin Media's customer support forums some time, you'll find an abundance of people that fail to understand and complain when they hit the clearly indicated peak hour usage caps, or don't understand the difference between meagbit (Mb) and kilobyte (kB) or are not in the 20Mbs cable service areas and are on the 'national' ADSL service and don't get that there is a difference.
Not to mention uncanny's job performance won't (or at least it is very unlikely it will) have a direct effect on the entire lives of 100s of children, their morals, abilities, aspirations, self motivation, self worth, and employability.
Good education should be a guaranteed right for all children, weather or not they or their parents want or care about it. The proper evaluation, hiring, and if necessary, dismissal of teachers is essential to this.
From TFA the students won't be required to play the game. The tutors will be demonstrating things within the game for the class as part of a larger discussion of the underlying points...
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There's the issue of WiFi having quite complex propergation patterns. Whereas with visible light to can easily tell where the coverage area and confine it to specific rooms without needing exotic building materials.
Not really... visible light can be as unpredictable... light reflects off walls and floors and can propagate quite far... you can be upstairs in bed and notice the downstairs light is still on since there is a faint light visible around the edges of the closed bedroom door...
Don't forget to paint over the windows or your competitors only need to rent a room across the road to get all your datas...
The big problem with these things is they need to be lighting the room for the data to flow... when everyone goes home and someone turns out the lights it cuts off all the PCs in the room and you can't do remote admin stuff like software updates and security patches. The solution of leaving the lights on will get the environment crazies on your back.
The health and safety people will probably have a thing or two to say about this as well since the level of office lighting is subject to legal controls in most countries...
Personally I can't wait to see a room of PCs with bright flashing lights on top that are positioned so they aren't obscured with the photos of the users favourite dog... http://sliceofstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/LED_USB_lights.jpg
or the city wide version... http://media.rd.com/rd/images/rdc/mag0901/four-ways-of-looking-at-a-lamp-01-af.jpg
Doh! voice recognition failure alert! ;)
The funny thing is.... No one knows if this speed-up is a natural cycle, or if there's really something out of whack with the core.
My money's on it being solar flairs and accelerated by the cumulative magnetic fields on all those electric/hybrid engines that are supposed to be 'good' for the planet...
2400 baud? You were lucky! We only had 1200/75 baud AND someone kept picking up the phone and dropping our connection!
Don't knock it... the number of scareware / fake virus scanner infections I have been cleaning recently from friends computers would suggest these attacks are becoming more frequent and harder to spot as malicious until it is too late...
If IE9 is as good as they claim at stopping these then my steady supply of good single malt whisky will dry up, which is bad for me and bad for bot nets but good for everyone else...
Here's another laugher from the results:
More than three-quarters (80%) of Americans regularly limit access to personal information posted to social media sites and make use of privacy settings
Does anyone here believe that one for one second?
It depends... Does only allowing 'friends of friends' on facebook to see your post on how drunk you got last night count? Even though the real threat to your personal data is that silly little quiz app that you allowed unrestricted access of your entire profile...
"Do you support the president having the authority to launch nuclear missiles in response to unfavorable comments by foreign leaders?"
Anyone else have the following facebook scenario flash into their mind?
USA: Just sold some awesome weapon tech to Iraq
IRAN: We don't think you should be doing that, no matter how much money they gave you since we don't like them.
USA: And? We are big, we don't care what you think...
IRAN: Go screw yourself!
IRAN is no longer friends with USA
USA: You will pay in time!
USA is no longer friends with Iran
USA has launched some nukes at Iran.
Taking it one step further...
A mechanism to shut down (ie. disconnect from the rest of the world) part of the (American portion of the) internet (since, for the most part at least, there are too many possible routes in and out of most countries for any one country to be able to totally disconnect a country other than itself) is a potential weak point and a target for an attack.
Such a system would increase any security risks defeating the whole purpose... no sane country would mandate such a thing.
I bought a pack of batteries from, Asda with total value of 1.99 that was tagged (I guess becuase they are easily stolen), but since I used the 'express' checkout the overkill security tag sticker wasn't deactivated.
Since I was going to be going into other shops with alarms I really needed to get it disabled so I looked around for the member of staff that was supposed to be stopping me... and after 5 minutes and setting the thing off for the 6th time I went all the way back to the checkout (which was quite far as it was a big store!) and got a checkout operator to de-tag it... and she didn't even look at my receipt.
I wish I had thought about it a bit more... I could have easily taken a big TV and no one would have noticed...
infected computers may still be permitted to engage in certain activities."
Such as buying an OS / Windows Live OneCare / Other MS Service online to unblock your tubes?
True, and if they don't get their way they just walk out.
Isn't that a tank of water?
Given they like going on holiday I would have thought that they would be at least a dozen turtles down by now...
But isn't 'yes' the correct answer anyway? Or at least the centre of the visible universe since you can only see as far as light could travel since the Big Bang and that distance is the same in all directions from whatever point you happen to be observing from...
What the crazies are pushing and deliberately confusing the truth with is that everything in the universe orbits the earth which is just wako...
Calculated by whom?
The people who's job it is to make sure that GE don't go out of business putting everyone out of a job.
Management can calculate things ANY WAY THEY WANT TO.
But those calculations have to stand up to the scrutiny of the shareholders. Since they stated that the 50% more was 'even after' (ie. not counting) the refit costs this is a relatively simple one... cost of materials is X, buildings and staff (and tax) cost is Y, and we will make Z bulbs. (X+Y)/Z = A*1.50 where A is the cost of a bulb from China.
Of course you could argue that one of the reasons foreign goods are so cheap is because US workers weren't willing to put up with unsafe places to work which makes it harder to build anything and comply with safety legislation and (not) be sued every 5 minutes by careless workers so the soon to be unemployed bulb makers only have themselves to blame. If this is a good or bad thing depends on your point of view...
Realized there was oil in the Internet...
Why else would the US want to 'secure' it?
So let me get this right...
1) Buy stamp with one of 6 pictures on it
2) Download App onto your phone using part of my monthly quota (and possibly have to pay for the App as well)
3) Using the App have it recognize one of 6 images (remember Google goggles can manage images of tons of things...)
4) Use the phone to download and read/listen to some web content using more of my quota on the tiny screen and low quality speaker
Seems complex and expensive when it could be
1) Put a short and easy to remember web address of the content on the bottom of the stamps and maybe some posters in the Post Office (the few that are left)
2) Type the address into my web browser on my PC with big screen, good speakers and unlimited use...
Or
1) Go to local library, borrow book for free with many poems including the one relating to the stamps on it and read while enjoying the sunshine...
Sometimes technology is not the answer you have been looking for
SCO Misrepresenting something? I don't believe you!
News just in...
Changes in UVB-76 tied to viral marketing campaign for new film. Cash strapped Russian government deny any knowledge.
In other news Russia announce new road building projects.
Breaking news on BBC... the arrest warrant has been canceled... definitely sounds like dirty government tricks now...
Oops forgot... ...or have bot/trojan infested computers using the bandwidth or just plain inadequate computers or wonder why the illegal porn they are accessing from an underpowered server in someones basement in some distant, poorly connected part of the globe can't max out their connection or why the cheap wireless router they are using is suffering collision/interference problems or just can't cope with 2000 torrent connections (because more is faster right?!?) or they are saturating their upstream bandwidth with torrent seeding causing control packets to be dropped and causing multiple unneeded data retransmits or have crappy anitvirus software that slows everything down...
I could go on...
Fixed that for you.
Not to mention uncanny's job performance won't (or at least it is very unlikely it will) have a direct effect on the entire lives of 100s of children, their morals, abilities, aspirations, self motivation, self worth, and employability.
Good education should be a guaranteed right for all children, weather or not they or their parents want or care about it. The proper evaluation, hiring, and if necessary, dismissal of teachers is essential to this.
From TFA the students won't be required to play the game. The tutors will be demonstrating things within the game for the class as part of a larger discussion of the underlying points...