The worst thing will be having to fondle yourself at the airport.
Been there, done that... A few years ago, I had to give myself my own pat-down at the Augusta Regional Airport because they didn't have a single male TSA agent on duty.
Yes, provided that the computer was placed into the "frozen" state.
to quote the wikipedia article as linked in my initial post:
Deep Freeze is a kernel-level driver that protects hard drive integrity by redirecting information being written to the hard drive or partition, leaving the original data intact. This redirected information is no longer referenced once the computer is restarted, thus restoring the system to its original state at the disk sector level. This allows users to make 'virtual' changes to the system, giving them the appearance that they can modify core files or even delete them, and even make the system unusable to themselves, but upon reboot the originally configured 'frozen' state of the operating system is restored.
I've had pretty good luck running Deep Freeze in cases like this.
With deep freeze, you set up your computer up into the ideal state you want it and then "freeze" it. Users can use the system to their heart's desire, and then you can restore it to the ideal state by rebooting the box.
> They both use the Motorala trademark at the same time? How does that work out?
Long story made short: Licensing agreements. If my memory serves me correctly, Motorola Mobility owns the Motorola name and licenses it to Motorola Solutions.
> And do they have an agreement not to get into each other's business? Does this change that? And are these the same guys that make bar code scanners?
I would assume they have a non-compete agreement.
Motorola Solutions owns Symbol Technologies. Symbol technologies has a few tablet products so this shouldn't change that.
I'm a type 1 diabetic with an insulin pump and have had few issues with the TSA. When I go through the TSA "security" checkpoints, I immediately notify the screener that I have an insulin pump and related supplies and that I can not remove my pump. If told to go through the weenie-vision scanners, I refuse due to medical reasons. Generally this is not a problem, however in the rare instance where the TSA representative pushes back, I demand that they call a supervisor.
For all the years I have flown, I only had an issue with a TSA representative once, and that was at the Fort Lauderdale airport. I stuck to the script above, and demanded to see a supervisor. Needless to say, the agent was ordered to go off duty.
With that said, Savannah should have RTFM better. While I do not know what brand of insulin pump she uses, my pump manufacturer has a card on the first page of the owners manual which is mean to be cut out and carried. On it, it states the following
"Medtronic has conducted official testing on the effects of the full body scanners at airports with Medtronic medical devices. Some of the new scanners may include x-ray. To avoid removing your devices, you may request an alternative screening process. If you choose to go through a full body scanner, you must remove your insulin pump and CGM (sensor and transmitter). Do not send your devices through the x-ray machine as an alternative."
I can say from experience that it is fairly easy to administer, is multi-platform, and scales nicely. It has a rather nice size of plugins and should meet compliance standards.
I wrote my resume in Google Docs. Overall, it did a pretty good job, and made it a lot easier to not only track revisions, but also to share it with a few chosen people who were givnig me some assitance in writing it.
After it was finished, I found it trivial to save it as a.doc and do last minute formatting in Open Office. Most of the formatting issues were really caused by minor font differences created by the constant changes and revisions. I have since re-uploaded the final version to google docs.
"The Federal Communications Commission was created by Congress with passage of the Communications Act of 1934. The Commission continues to operate under the act, as amended. In Section 1, under the heading Purposes of Act, is written, "For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio...".
The wording of the phrase insures that it will conform with the Constitution for the United States, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. The Act makes no reference to the regulation of either intrastate commerce in communications or private communications. The Constitution does not authorize the Federal government to regulate such activity within individual states of the Union."
2.2 so what?
No offense, but the US government routinely ignores the constitution.
Half of what the FCC does could be challenged as being unconstitutional, however some of their activities are allowable. But I couldn't find any supreme court cases which tried to declare the FCC unconstitutional.
Along those lines, I didn't find any supreme court challenges which challenged the constitutionality of the US Army. If my memory serves me correctly, the Army was supposed to exist for 2 years, not 200... however this is off topic for this discussion.
I also thought only the federal government could draft and/or ratify international treaties. (For example, the state of IL can't declare war on Canada, nor could it ratify the Kyoto protocols on its own as only the federal gov could do those actions...) Obviously radio is international as we are well aware.
Heres the thing... the FCC is also responsible for the coordination of how the radio spectrum is used. Some of the coordination activities are international.
For example, if I was to require some spectrum use in the 460 MHz region, the FCC would be responsible for issuing out a few frequencies (as well as transmission power limits) for my use in my area. If I was close to Canada or Mexico, the FCC would have to coordinate with those governments, if necessary.
Now, I didn't think states could draft up internatonal treaties, as would be required to coordinate radio frequencies between a commercial user here in a city in the US and either the Mexican or Canidian governments.
I think the big reason for having a federal level agency for coordination and regulation of communications is that radio is international, and subject to international laws. I don't think it would be workable if each state had to ratify international treaties, let alone ratify laws for domestic radio purposes (example: radio operator in IL can transmit to radio operator in KS...)
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Wait, are you serious?
Unfortunately, yes. AGS is a very small airport. I'm thankful that i will never have to fly through there again!
The worst thing will be having to fondle yourself at the airport.
Been there, done that... A few years ago, I had to give myself my own pat-down at the Augusta Regional Airport because they didn't have a single male TSA agent on duty.
Gilbert would be more entertaining as the Master.
Yes, provided that the computer was placed into the "frozen" state.
to quote the wikipedia article as linked in my initial post:
Deep Freeze is a kernel-level driver that protects hard drive integrity by redirecting information being written to the hard drive or partition, leaving the original data intact. This redirected information is no longer referenced once the computer is restarted, thus restoring the system to its original state at the disk sector level. This allows users to make 'virtual' changes to the system, giving them the appearance that they can modify core files or even delete them, and even make the system unusable to themselves, but upon reboot the originally configured 'frozen' state of the operating system is restored.
I've had pretty good luck running Deep Freeze in cases like this.
With deep freeze, you set up your computer up into the ideal state you want it and then "freeze" it. Users can use the system to their heart's desire, and then you can restore it to the ideal state by rebooting the box.
wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_(software)
Product website: http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/
More like the pink mist of death...
Ubuntu has a few pages which outline supported hardware and certified computers.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
> They both use the Motorala trademark at the same time? How does that work out?
Long story made short: Licensing agreements. If my memory serves me correctly, Motorola Mobility owns the Motorola name and licenses it to Motorola Solutions.
> And do they have an agreement not to get into each other's business? Does this change that? And are these the same guys that make bar code scanners?
I would assume they have a non-compete agreement.
Motorola Solutions owns Symbol Technologies. Symbol technologies has a few tablet products so this shouldn't change that.
I'm a type 1 diabetic with an insulin pump and have had few issues with the TSA. When I go through the TSA "security" checkpoints, I immediately notify the screener that I have an insulin pump and related supplies and that I can not remove my pump. If told to go through the weenie-vision scanners, I refuse due to medical reasons. Generally this is not a problem, however in the rare instance where the TSA representative pushes back, I demand that they call a supervisor.
For all the years I have flown, I only had an issue with a TSA representative once, and that was at the Fort Lauderdale airport. I stuck to the script above, and demanded to see a supervisor. Needless to say, the agent was ordered to go off duty.
With that said, Savannah should have RTFM better. While I do not know what brand of insulin pump she uses, my pump manufacturer has a card on the first page of the owners manual which is mean to be cut out and carried. On it, it states the following
"Medtronic has conducted official testing on the effects of the full body scanners at airports with Medtronic medical devices. Some of the new scanners may include x-ray. To avoid removing your devices, you may request an alternative screening process. If you choose to go through a full body scanner, you must remove your insulin pump and CGM (sensor and transmitter). Do not send your devices through the x-ray machine as an alternative."
A pdf of that card may be found at http://www.medtronicdiabetes.net/sfc/servlet.shepherd/version/download/068C0000000IY43
The manufacture even goes as far as having ample documentation on their website. See the following:
Medtronic Airport "security" guidelines: http://www.medtronicdiabetes.net/lifestyle/travel/tipsonflyingandairportsecurityguidelines
Medtronic Equipment Interference chart: http://www.medtronicdiabetes.net/lifestyle/equipmentinterference
More likely, they'd have to attempt to spam plotters with ANSI E sized paper
Me too!!!!!!
I would recommend Openfire. It is a Jabber / XMMP implementation from Jive Software, and is open source (GPL).
See http://www.igniterealtime.org/
I can say from experience that it is fairly easy to administer, is multi-platform, and scales nicely. It has a rather nice size of plugins and should meet compliance standards.
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I strongly recommend CDW (cdw.com) for everything computer. From my experience, they are excellent, and their customer support is very good.
Because doing it by hand is a real bitch and a half. Doing it by hand in moon or candle light sucks worse, I must add.
I wrote my resume in Google Docs. Overall, it did a pretty good job, and made it a lot easier to not only track revisions, but also to share it with a few chosen people who were givnig me some assitance in writing it.
After it was finished, I found it trivial to save it as a .doc and do last minute formatting in Open Office. Most of the formatting issues were really caused by minor font differences created by the constant changes and revisions. I have since re-uploaded the final version to google docs.
So to answer your question, yes.
NASA to give all employees free beer during working hours. Story at 11.
Windows ME. Arguably...
OK, communications regulations encompasses a huge area.
1. Nipplegate
Obscenity has no protection under first ammendment. The first case which came to my mind is Miller v. California
2. FCC is Unconstitutional...
2.1 from http://www.themicroeffect.com/limitedfcc.htm:
"The Federal Communications Commission was created by Congress with passage of the Communications Act of 1934. The Commission continues to operate under the act, as amended. In Section 1, under the heading Purposes of Act, is written, "For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio ...".
The wording of the phrase insures that it will conform with the Constitution for the United States, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. The Act makes no reference to the regulation of either intrastate commerce in communications or private communications. The Constitution does not authorize the Federal government to regulate such activity within individual states of the Union."
2.2 so what?
No offense, but the US government routinely ignores the constitution.
Half of what the FCC does could be challenged as being unconstitutional, however some of their activities are allowable. But I couldn't find any supreme court cases which tried to declare the FCC unconstitutional.
Along those lines, I didn't find any supreme court challenges which challenged the constitutionality of the US Army. If my memory serves me correctly, the Army was supposed to exist for 2 years, not 200... however this is off topic for this discussion.
Thanks :-)
Actually, I am planning to resume studying for the extra exam after I finish grad school in August.
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I may only be a General, but I agree with you.
I also thought only the federal government could draft and/or ratify international treaties. (For example, the state of IL can't declare war on Canada, nor could it ratify the Kyoto protocols on its own as only the federal gov could do those actions...) Obviously radio is international as we are well aware.
Heres the thing... the FCC is also responsible for the coordination of how the radio spectrum is used. Some of the coordination activities are international.
For example, if I was to require some spectrum use in the 460 MHz region, the FCC would be responsible for issuing out a few frequencies (as well as transmission power limits) for my use in my area. If I was close to Canada or Mexico, the FCC would have to coordinate with those governments, if necessary.
Now, I didn't think states could draft up internatonal treaties, as would be required to coordinate radio frequencies between a commercial user here in a city in the US and either the Mexican or Canidian governments.
I think the big reason for having a federal level agency for coordination and regulation of communications is that radio is international, and subject to international laws. I don't think it would be workable if each state had to ratify international treaties, let alone ratify laws for domestic radio purposes (example: radio operator in IL can transmit to radio operator in KS...)