But John Thompson, the guy running Microsoft that was appointed for his race, has hinted that the free upgrades will be converted to a paid subscription model. It's too early to call it free.
Yeah, I hate it too when they always appoint the white guy just because he's white, but what are you going to do?
On August 3, 1966, a bearded Lenny Bruce was found dead in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills home at 8825 W. Hollywood Blvd.[48] The official photo, taken at the scene, showed Bruce lying naked on the floor, a syringe and burned bottle cap nearby, along with various other narcotics paraphernalia. According to legend, a policeman at the scene said, "There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster", which itself was possibly one of Bruce's lines.[49] Record producer Phil Spector, a friend of Bruce's, bought the negatives of the photographs to keep them from the press. The official cause of death was "acute morphine poisoning caused by an accidental overdose."[50]
It's definitely nefarious. I've been giving my phone number to a cute checker at least a couple of times each month for the past year or so; she asks me for it every time I go to that supermarket. So I figured she was interested, you know what I mean? But no. She hasn't phoned me once in all that time. I asked around and the word is that she's just been giving me a discount on the stuff I buy there. So what do you think? Should I make my move? I don't want to come off like an idiot.
Absolutely correct. She should have made herself an anonymous Yelp account using her local Starbucks' wifi and posted a review of the company there. Of course, they'd then have deleted the review because it wasn't "trustworthy".
Serious question: if the iPhones and their components are actually manufactured in China, wouldn't that suggest that if the Chinese government wants the info (hardware and firmware) on the inner workings of the iPhone then they probably already have it? Wouldn't it be likely that at least some of the folks working in these factories may have provided the PRC with that info, perhaps under threat? And given the known vulnerabilities of digital certificates vis-a-vis the ability of any given CA to issue bogus certs, might not they already have the means to load modified firmware onto an iPhone?
So simply ask for the circuit diagrams, software source code of all chips and then simply pull the device apart, keeping the memory intact in each component, create a back up copy of contents and then brute force it outside of the control of the device itself.
I think it would be much easier if the FBI, instead of begging Apple Corporation for this info, simply paid a sufficiently attractive consulting fee to the Chinese engineers who already have all those circuit diagrams and chip firmware.
I plan to post the source to Github by the end of the month (Feb 2016). Gotta do some more commenting. A computer science prof who dinged a lot of students for poor commenting practices has to proceed carefully on that matter. I could put a precompiled exe there as well, but that would require a few changes to the UI. Some of the parameters you'd need to set for your camera and view of the street are currently constants in the code. Not too many.
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Folks: Progress is good. I'm expecting a public github posting of the source, a characterization of all of the strings you can pull via various in-code constants and input parameters, and a combined VST overview and simple user manual soon now. Keep an eye on https://github.com/pfr/VideoSp.... I'll be making it public as soon as I can. And thanks to help from my Github son, there will be Mac and Linux compilable versions available in addition to my Wintel version.
Coming soon to github, according to Paul Reynolds:
Paul Reynolds 3 days ago
I plan to post the source to Github by the end of the month (Feb 2016). Gotta do some more commenting. A computer science prof who dinged a lot of students for poor commenting practices has to proceed carefully on that matter. I could put a precompiled exe there as well, but that would require a few changes to the UI. Some of the parameters you'd need to set for your camera and view of the street are currently constants in the code. Not too many.
Once you get that drilled into them you don't have to worry about them getting run over as they stay away from the road and practice crossing it safely.
Well, in NYC there is a rash of cars, SUVs, buses, and trucks driving up on the sidewalk and mowing down the folks who are standing and walking there. Or plowing through the windows of restaurants and shops.
So don't stop worrying yet about your kids getting run over; they might be talking with a friend on a sidewalk or eating lunch in a restaurant.
Often the transition from a high-speed road to a low-speed (e.g., "residential") road is essentially seamless, and drivers don't get the immediate feedback needed for them to quickly adjust their vehicle's speed even if they wanted to (and some don't).
That's where making the slower road less easily navigable comes in. When a driver sees a tree or a concrete pillar directly in front of him, he will usually slow down and begin to pay more attention the road.
So instead of carrying the extra production staff when "business is slow", they chose to hire "expensive" janitors and cafeteria workers (who were probably paid less than regular janitorial/cafeteria staff would have been, but their contracting company made a killing).
I have no sympathy for that kind of management and believe that it's destroying, if it hasn't already destroyed, the workplace.
I think that the problem may be that one can't know in advance which child will progress from "mild rash" to anaphylaxis the next time they eat what they are allergic to, so any indication of allergy results in exercising maximum caution. When it becomes more predictable (research $ at work) this will probably change.
I'm not saying that deep wells are necessarily free of arsenic, but your characterization of the cause of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh is at odds with what was reported here:
Millions of tube wells were drilled to provide villagers with clean water, but many of them were dug into shallow layers of ground that had naturally occurring arsenic, contaminating the water.
Interesting. I thought it was a legal requirement that a 911 call show the actual address of the caller if it's a landline (which should include VOIP). Cellular calls can be at least roughly located via triangulation if GPS isn't available. Have you spoken with your local EMS to tell them that calls from your desk will show the incorrect location information?
Companies don't want to have a record of lots of 911 calls for their employees, it's that simple. It's not a question of opening doors.
Call 911, let them start on their way and let EMS contact security at the company to let them in. Any EMS worth their name knows the layout and contact numbers for someplace as huge as an Amazon warehouse.
At which time it appeared that NY State (where I tested this) was one of the states that had some sort of "soft-tone" requirement. Apparently that is no longer the case.
As some of you have pointed out in our recent post, Using your cell phone as your home phone comes with a risk, some states do require local carriers to maintain a "soft" or "warm" dial tone, which allows you to call 911 on a line that has been disconnected or is otherwise inactive.
An up-to-date-list of affected states is elusive; we struck out in obtaining one from the FCC and some industry groups. However, the following are likely states for some form of soft-tone requirement; we assembled the list from data in an FCC report published in 2000 (Adobe Acrobat software required) and a North American Numbering Council (NANCE) report published in 2002 (link requires Microsoft Word or compatible word processing software).
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However, we can't confirm that coverage is in effect in all those states today. Also, some soft-tone coverage is limited, in time or other respects. For example, according to the NANCE report, emergency service in Oklahoma is mandated for only 30 days following the suspension of service. In Ohio, the period is only 14 days.
Are you talking about US federal law or some state or local law?
The reason I ask is because I tested some copper phone jacks that once-upon-a-time had landline service to them but no longer have service, and there is no dialtone (but there is still power to make the lights on the phone light up). Thinking that perhaps one could still call 911 without a dialtone, but not wanting to waste EMS time handling a bogus call I contacted Verizon support (1-800-VERIZON) to ask.
The representative I spoke with said that a disconnected landline cannot dial 911; that the requirement to be able to do so holds only for wireless phones.
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Not a 24-hour clock.
Yeah, I hate it too when they always appoint the white guy just because he's white, but what are you going to do?
The key is to use the same amount of oil in the pump: exactly 1 kilogram.
Ooohhhhh! Lemmy not Lenny.
My eyes! I can't tell the difference between "m" and "n" anymore. Time to embiggen the font.
I guess that "Lenny" in the context of booze and drugs could mean only one thing to my generation.
The Wikipedia that I have access to says differently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce
It's definitely nefarious. I've been giving my phone number to a cute checker at least a couple of times each month for the past year or so; she asks me for it every time I go to that supermarket. So I figured she was interested, you know what I mean? But no. She hasn't phoned me once in all that time. I asked around and the word is that she's just been giving me a discount on the stuff I buy there. So what do you think? Should I make my move? I don't want to come off like an idiot.
Absolutely correct. She should have made herself an anonymous Yelp account using her local Starbucks' wifi and posted a review of the company there. Of course, they'd then have deleted the review because it wasn't "trustworthy".
Serious question: if the iPhones and their components are actually manufactured in China, wouldn't that suggest that if the Chinese government wants the info (hardware and firmware) on the inner workings of the iPhone then they probably already have it? Wouldn't it be likely that at least some of the folks working in these factories may have provided the PRC with that info, perhaps under threat? And given the known vulnerabilities of digital certificates vis-a-vis the ability of any given CA to issue bogus certs, might not they already have the means to load modified firmware onto an iPhone?
I think it would be much easier if the FBI, instead of begging Apple Corporation for this info, simply paid a sufficiently attractive consulting fee to the Chinese engineers who already have all those circuit diagrams and chip firmware.
I'd say that if any of the combatants were disposable it was those two, not a bunch of cops trying to stop the killing of innocent people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVkKysDvGA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HVkKysDvGA
Well, in NYC there is a rash of cars, SUVs, buses, and trucks driving up on the sidewalk and mowing down the folks who are standing and walking there. Or plowing through the windows of restaurants and shops.
So don't stop worrying yet about your kids getting run over; they might be talking with a friend on a sidewalk or eating lunch in a restaurant.
Often the transition from a high-speed road to a low-speed (e.g., "residential") road is essentially seamless, and drivers don't get the immediate feedback needed for them to quickly adjust their vehicle's speed even if they wanted to (and some don't).
That's where making the slower road less easily navigable comes in. When a driver sees a tree or a concrete pillar directly in front of him, he will usually slow down and begin to pay more attention the road.
So instead of carrying the extra production staff when "business is slow", they chose to hire "expensive" janitors and cafeteria workers (who were probably paid less than regular janitorial/cafeteria staff would have been, but their contracting company made a killing).
I have no sympathy for that kind of management and believe that it's destroying, if it hasn't already destroyed, the workplace.
Don't blame the tool. You were probably holding it wrong.
I think that the problem may be that one can't know in advance which child will progress from "mild rash" to anaphylaxis the next time they eat what they are allergic to, so any indication of allergy results in exercising maximum caution. When it becomes more predictable (research $ at work) this will probably change.
Wow. That's all I can say after reading that wikipedia article.
http://science.time.com/2010/06/19/study-says-arsenic-poisons-millions-in-bangladesh%E2%80%94but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/
Yes.
Interesting. I thought it was a legal requirement that a 911 call show the actual address of the caller if it's a landline (which should include VOIP). Cellular calls can be at least roughly located via triangulation if GPS isn't available. Have you spoken with your local EMS to tell them that calls from your desk will show the incorrect location information?
Companies don't want to have a record of lots of 911 calls for their employees, it's that simple. It's not a question of opening doors.
Call 911, let them start on their way and let EMS contact security at the company to let them in. Any EMS worth their name knows the layout and contact numbers for someplace as huge as an Amazon warehouse.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/05/update-about-911-and-disconnected-landlines/index.htm
At which time it appeared that NY State (where I tested this) was one of the states that had some sort of "soft-tone" requirement. Apparently that is no longer the case.
You prefer to irradiate your anus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
Are you talking about US federal law or some state or local law?
The reason I ask is because I tested some copper phone jacks that once-upon-a-time had landline service to them but no longer have service, and there is no dialtone (but there is still power to make the lights on the phone light up). Thinking that perhaps one could still call 911 without a dialtone, but not wanting to waste EMS time handling a bogus call I contacted Verizon support (1-800-VERIZON) to ask.
The representative I spoke with said that a disconnected landline cannot dial 911; that the requirement to be able to do so holds only for wireless phones.