They have punch cards they legally must retain, and no way to read them. Data without the code/hardware to read it is useless, but we have to keep it all.
IRS maintains a collection of tape drives so it can read old computer tapes, I suspect someone, somewhere could figure out some way to read a punch card...
The librarian said she would not infringe on the patron's constitutional right to access pirn in the library - does she also get to decide which constitutional rights are allowed?
There are many states that allow people to openly carry firearms, would this librarian, we're her library in one of those states object to this constitutional right?
I learned a long time ago, watching 'Full Metal Jacket' the difference between a gun and a penis (one is for fighting one is for fun)...
Without the oil fields, Iraq has no economy and can never rebuild - period. While it would have been better if the Iraqi universities were better protected by occupying US troops, there is an element of this story that arrears forgotten - it was likely mainly Iraqi citizens who choose to re-distribute the wealth trapped in their universities.
At some point the looters and vandals have to bear some responsibility for their actions.
The write up (above) says he asked the patron to change computers, not stop exercising his first amendment rights... The librarian took the request to change computers to be the same as censorship, which it is not.
If the patron was watching porn in the kids section (only computer he could find), can we all agree that asking the patron to change computers doesn't infringe his constitutional rights?
Asking the patron to move to a (presumably) more remote location is more about manners, not censorship.
Wonder what this Constitutional Crusader Librarian feels about a patron's ability to exercise their second amendment rights?
If it's OK to watch a video of a man masturbating on a library computer, is it also OK for a man to masturbate while sitting at the computer?
So let's play this out - I want to park near a certain store in a popular part of town. My magic box alerts me to two spots two block over on the west side of the street, and one two blocks away on the east side of the street. I head over to the west (two spots, better chance of getting one), but on the way over, some other drivers take the spots. Now my magic box tells me a spot opened up right infront of the store I want to visit, so I race over, just in time to see another driver take the spot. How long does this dance have to go on before I start cutting down on emissions, and start saving time and money.
This is the electronic version of the helpful spouse when you try to park at the mall on the holidays - "There's a spot two rows over - go get it!" "Darn, she took our spot - hey look, at the end of the aisle - is she pulling out?" "Oh, I didn't see that other car waiting for his spot." "Maybe you could drop me off at the door?"
It sounds great IN THEORY, but in practice this will benefit almost no one.
And let's not forget the latest - "he was shocked, shocked I tell you', to learn that someone, anyone with the word engineer in their education/job history could possibly be out of work in this economy.
He asked a woman in a google+ town hall to send her husband's resume to him so he could personally look into this interesting phenomenon.
Has the White House suddenly discovered H-1B visas?
Did the Preident not think there were older white American with good job skills that couldn't find a job?
Did the President really just want to see how many unemployed Americans would send him their resume?
So its in everyones financial best interests to have the charger as close to the building as possible. Even if you drive a gas guzzler.
No, it's in everyone's financial best interest for plug-in electric car owners to charge their car at home, and not soak the local shop owner for the electricity their cars consume.
Charging equipment is popping up largely because of subsidies. As part of a $5 billion federal program to subsidize development of electric vehicles and battery technology, the U.S. Energy Department over the past two years provided about $130 million for two pilot projects that help pay for chargers at homes, offices and public locations.
With less than 20,000 EVs on the road today, that works out to over $6,500 per EV, and since the subsidies only pay for a part of the expense, which can run $2,000 - 7,000 per charger, it's safe to say we have at least two chargers for every EV in the country.
Special EV parkeing spot does not mean "Free Electic car charging station" - it simply means a specially-designated patch of asphalt in the parking lot.
Your justification based on the cost of running wires doesn't apply.
I'd be very interested to know how much money this company took/was given by the federal government to get started.
A range of 150 miles is suitable for someone that spends less than 3 hours a day driving, which includes many, many people - but how many of those people can afford a $37,000 (list price est.) sedan? With all the federal and state "gifts" (subsidies, loans, and grants) available to deploy charging stations at owner homes, apartments and stores/offices I don't think the "where are you gonna plug it in" question will be an issue for very long - once the car starts selling, the charging stations will come.
Key word is 'knowingly' - they thought they had it all figured out, until the ocean crashed in over their sea wall and flooded their generators that powered the cooling pumps.
That wall wasn't tall enough and the bunker filled with water.
I love this 'I'll build a wall to keep out [hurricanes|tsunamis]' mentality that Japan and the folks in New Orleans have - I think it shows great chutzpah!
Obviously, Japan HAS been running Nukes for the LAST fourty years, and now AFTER 40 YEARS OF SAFE OPERATION they will close nukes they deem unsafe, and ones they deem safe will remain in operation.
What exactly is the news here? They will close 'unsafe' power plants and keep 'safe' plants up and running. Did Japan knowingly keep unsafe power plants online?
The private HS I went to had a dozen TRS-80s and nearly everyone choose to take BASIC Programming I as an elective, the local public high school had Apple ][s all around the building for student use.
Every school isn't your school, every teacher isn't like the teachers you had, every student isn't like you were in school.
You can't staff a school and pay the salaries we do in the US and spend less than we do on education. My school district has about 10 administrators that earn over 100K/yr (incl Superintendent that makes $160K/yr) and 400 teachers, 100 of which earn 85K/yr (over 18 years in our district). Teacher salaries & benefits consume 2/3rds of our annual budget - the other 1/3rd covers Administrators, 5 principals, 5 school buildings, busing, electricity, textbooks, activities, etc.
Where do you propose we trim to pay for sprinkling tech all around our 4,000 students? Teachers argue they are underpaid as it is, our schools average 40 years old, and we outsource most busing to save on the cost of buses...
Oh, and to someone else's point, MSFT offers OS, Office and related software for $30/desktop/laptop, and Apple doesn't really discount hardware purchases for schools. Dell, HP, etc offer schools the same discount large corp get...
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Is this really 'hacking' when you guess the password?
Reminds me of the script-kiddie who 'hacked' into Sarah Palin's email account once he successfully guessed her password was 'popcorn'...
Wonder how he's doing in prison?
Apparently not, in the eyes of "First time accepted submitter CIStud."
IRS maintains a collection of tape drives so it can read old computer tapes, I suspect someone, somewhere could figure out some way to read a punch card...
Maybe they could get some card readers from West Palm Beach County?
Wow, sounds like every RFP NH issues for IT-related products and/or services will now be exactly one bullet item longer.
Time for all the misty-eyed Linux advocates to start asking - "Maybe this is when Linux/FOSS will take off?"
Sorry - logged in and Slashdot sent me back to the wrong story...
Wow, sounds like every RFP NH issues for IT-related products and/or services will now be exactly one bullet item longer.
Time for all the misty-eyed Linux advocates to start asking - "Maybe this is when Linux/FOSS will take off?"
Uhm, no.
The librarian said she would not infringe on the patron's constitutional right to access pirn in the library - does she also get to decide which constitutional rights are allowed?
There are many states that allow people to openly carry firearms, would this librarian, we're her library in one of those states object to this constitutional right?
I learned a long time ago, watching 'Full Metal Jacket' the difference between a gun and a penis (one is for fighting one is for fun)...
The write-up I commented on said 'ask' so that's what I said, and what I meant.
I never said force, and neither did the write-up.
Not the looters and vandals? Riiiight...
Without the oil fields, Iraq has no economy and can never rebuild - period. While it would have been better if the Iraqi universities were better protected by occupying US troops, there is an element of this story that arrears forgotten - it was likely mainly Iraqi citizens who choose to re-distribute the wealth trapped in their universities.
At some point the looters and vandals have to bear some responsibility for their actions.
The write up (above) says he asked the patron to change computers, not stop exercising his first amendment rights... The librarian took the request to change computers to be the same as censorship, which it is not.
If the patron was watching porn in the kids section (only computer he could find), can we all agree that asking the patron to change computers doesn't infringe his constitutional rights?
Asking the patron to move to a (presumably) more remote location is more about manners, not censorship.
Wonder what this Constitutional Crusader Librarian feels about a patron's ability to exercise their second amendment rights?
If it's OK to watch a video of a man masturbating on a library computer, is it also OK for a man to masturbate while sitting at the computer?
So let's play this out - I want to park near a certain store in a popular part of town. My magic box alerts me to two spots two block over on the west side of the street, and one two blocks away on the east side of the street. I head over to the west (two spots, better chance of getting one), but on the way over, some other drivers take the spots. Now my magic box tells me a spot opened up right infront of the store I want to visit, so I race over, just in time to see another driver take the spot. How long does this dance have to go on before I start cutting down on emissions, and start saving time and money.
This is the electronic version of the helpful spouse when you try to park at the mall on the holidays - "There's a spot two rows over - go get it!" "Darn, she took our spot - hey look, at the end of the aisle - is she pulling out?" "Oh, I didn't see that other car waiting for his spot." "Maybe you could drop me off at the door?"
It sounds great IN THEORY, but in practice this will benefit almost no one.
And let's not forget the latest - "he was shocked, shocked I tell you', to learn that someone, anyone with the word engineer in their education/job history could possibly be out of work in this economy.
He asked a woman in a google+ town hall to send her husband's resume to him so he could personally look into this interesting phenomenon.
Has the White House suddenly discovered H-1B visas?
Did the Preident not think there were older white American with good job skills that couldn't find a job?
Did the President really just want to see how many unemployed Americans would send him their resume?
Or did he want to look concerned?
We can petiition the White House to answer, on the record, any question as long as it is neither too specific NOR leads to a law enforcement action?
And the point of this 'service' is what, exactly? To provoke the administration to opine about non-specific social issues?
I'm sure the keyboard is an improvement over the original Sinclair keyboard!
No, it's in everyone's financial best interest for plug-in electric car owners to charge their car at home, and not soak the local shop owner for the electricity their cars consume.
Here's an interesting article on the growing number of charging stations from the WSJ last October:
With less than 20,000 EVs on the road today, that works out to over $6,500 per EV, and since the subsidies only pay for a part of the expense, which can run $2,000 - 7,000 per charger, it's safe to say we have at least two chargers for every EV in the country.
Special EV parkeing spot does not mean "Free Electic car charging station" - it simply means a specially-designated patch of asphalt in the parking lot.
Your justification based on the cost of running wires doesn't apply.
I'd be very interested to know how much money this company took/was given by the federal government to get started.
A range of 150 miles is suitable for someone that spends less than 3 hours a day driving, which includes many, many people - but how many of those people can afford a $37,000 (list price est.) sedan? With all the federal and state "gifts" (subsidies, loans, and grants) available to deploy charging stations at owner homes, apartments and stores/offices I don't think the "where are you gonna plug it in" question will be an issue for very long - once the car starts selling, the charging stations will come.
Key word is 'knowingly' - they thought they had it all figured out, until the ocean crashed in over their sea wall and flooded their generators that powered the cooling pumps.
Until that happened, they thought it was safe.
I love this 'I'll build a wall to keep out [hurricanes|tsunamis]' mentality that Japan and the folks in New Orleans have - I think it shows great chutzpah!
Obviously, Japan HAS been running Nukes for the LAST fourty years, and now AFTER 40 YEARS OF SAFE OPERATION they will close nukes they deem unsafe, and ones they deem safe will remain in operation.
What exactly is the news here? They will close 'unsafe' power plants and keep 'safe' plants up and running. Did Japan knowingly keep unsafe power plants online?
Yes they did.
The private HS I went to had a dozen TRS-80s and nearly everyone choose to take BASIC Programming I as an elective, the local public high school had Apple ][s all around the building for student use.
Every school isn't your school, every teacher isn't like the teachers you had, every student isn't like you were in school.
You can't staff a school and pay the salaries we do in the US and spend less than we do on education. My school district has about 10 administrators that earn over 100K/yr (incl Superintendent that makes $160K/yr) and 400 teachers, 100 of which earn 85K/yr (over 18 years in our district). Teacher salaries & benefits consume 2/3rds of our annual budget - the other 1/3rd covers Administrators, 5 principals, 5 school buildings, busing, electricity, textbooks, activities, etc.
Where do you propose we trim to pay for sprinkling tech all around our 4,000 students? Teachers argue they are underpaid as it is, our schools average 40 years old, and we outsource most busing to save on the cost of buses...
Oh, and to someone else's point, MSFT offers OS, Office and related software for $30/desktop/laptop, and Apple doesn't really discount hardware purchases for schools. Dell, HP, etc offer schools the same discount large corp get...
But it's for the children!
What, only teachers can use that argument?
Funny, I thought it was the teacher's job to draw in all the students...