"I doubt the FCC's gonna bother him"
Well, you would think that the FCC would have better things to do than monitor the emergency services frequencies to verify that they are doing things like broadcasting their station id... But oddly enough the town next to mine was find several thousand dollars for forgetting to broadcast the ID.
Tim Donahue
I don't know where he is getting his facts from, but MS's "Shared Source" program generally does not allow for distribution, or even changing, the code. Unless MS is lying to us on the section of their site dealing with the Shared Source program. (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/I nitiative/Initiative.mspx)
In the US the law generally recognizes that business email is owned by the business, and it is not considered private. (The one exception is the state of Connecticut which requires an electronic monitoring policy to read, but not to filter, mail.) This is why I always recommend to people that they don't say anything in email that they wouldn't want their parents to see on the 6:00 news.
I do not know how the law applies to universities however since the servers that host the mail and the facilities that transport the mail are owned by the universities, I would think that they have the right to filter incoming mail however they wish.
John Dvorak not understand?!?!?!? Oh my , what is this world coming to? Dvorak always gets everything he blabers about
Come on, this is John Dvorak that you are talking about, from everything I have EVER read by him, I would have to say he is the second-most incompetant technical columnist that has ever graced this world.
The shuttle orbited the Earth twice before returning, performing an impressive automated landing on the shuttle runway at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The U.S shuttles landings are also mostly automated (there has only been one manually flown re-entry so far), but deployment of the landing gear requires a human to physically press the button. The manual step was added at the insistence of the astronauts, who claim that early deployment of the landing gear due to a computer error would be fatal. A premature deployment at many points in re-entry would destroy the shuttle in a fashion similar to the Space Shuttle Columbia.
I know I have read this on NASA's website before as well, however I don't have time to find it at this point... All hell is breaking loose here at work because of a bunch of storms in the area....
Tim
Another foolish and oft repeated misconception. The only reason the shuttle doesn't fly unmanned is the polical clout of the astronaut corps. Do you think a shuttle commander has a hand on the stick at anytime from launch to landing? NASA basically gives the stick over to the pilot when the shuttle is lined up with the runway and has enough energy to reach its end. If humans were not aboard the shuttle would be happy and capable of landing and rollout as well.
Actually, the only thing that prevents the Shuttle from landing FULLY automated is the manual deploying of the landing gear. This was a compromise with the astronauts that were worried that there might be a computer failure and the landing gear would be deployed early. To date, there has only been one manual landing of the space shuttle, by a marine pilot that I can't remember the name of, every other landing has been fully controlled by the on-board computers.
Tim
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I mean why on earth wouldn't Sun try to get a piece of the action....
"I doubt the FCC's gonna bother him" Well, you would think that the FCC would have better things to do than monitor the emergency services frequencies to verify that they are doing things like broadcasting their station id... But oddly enough the town next to mine was find several thousand dollars for forgetting to broadcast the ID. Tim Donahue
I don't know where he is getting his facts from, but MS's "Shared Source" program generally does not allow for distribution, or even changing, the code. Unless MS is lying to us on the section of their site dealing with the Shared Source program. (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/I nitiative/Initiative.mspx)
In the US the law generally recognizes that business email is owned by the business, and it is not considered private. (The one exception is the state of Connecticut which requires an electronic monitoring policy to read, but not to filter, mail.) This is why I always recommend to people that they don't say anything in email that they wouldn't want their parents to see on the 6:00 news.
I do not know how the law applies to universities however since the servers that host the mail and the facilities that transport the mail are owned by the universities, I would think that they have the right to filter incoming mail however they wish.
Tim
Just make sure you aren't seated in the stunt sundive ship.
John Dvorak not understand?!?!?!? Oh my , what is this world coming to? Dvorak always gets everything he blabers about
Come on, this is John Dvorak that you are talking about, from everything I have EVER read by him, I would have to say he is the second-most incompetant technical columnist that has ever graced this world.
I know I have read this on NASA's website before as well, however I don't have time to find it at this point... All hell is breaking loose here at work because of a bunch of storms in the area.... Tim