The lack of a steering wheel might increase the risk of back and neck injury in an accident, however, due to the increased space you'd have to move in (even with an airbag).
Compared to the alternative of my body trying to occupy the same space as the steering column (or vice-versa)?
Assuming a shoulder belt and head rest, the middle seat in the back is generally the safest seat in the car, precisely because there is less chance of a piece of the car intruding in your personal space.
I disagree. Certainly the 'resolution' isn't as high, given the level of ambient noise and the muffling of your voice caused by the facepiece, but it's still useful. A quick shout can give you a pretty good impression of the size of the room you're in, and any immediate obstacles. Paying attention to sounds (of both the passive and active origin) is a very important aspect of situational awareness in low visibility situations.
Of course, life may be different for you water boys on the end of a hoseline.:p
". ..under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet."
"By the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resource can only meet the demand of 830 more days. If there is no available new resource by then, new netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. .."
I wouldn't say it's the opposite. I would also make the case that Windows' popularity has had negative consequences on its security history.
I think it's fair to say that GNU/Linux does have some better security philosophies, but if you put it (pick a distro...any distro...) on every Windows user's computer right now, you'd likely see a dramatic increase in the incidence of viri/worms targeting GNU/Linux being successful in the wild. So long as users are going to pick dumb root passwords, and give them away to the first "official" looking dialog box that asks, the problem will never go away.
Perhaps I missed it in TFA, but I saw no weighting for market share...
To pick an arbitrary statistic, in June 2007 Google reported Apache with a 66% market share and IIS with a 23% share (source). Given that the TFA lists "Attack against the administrator/user" as the most common attack method by a wide margin, and it seems to me that both Apache and IIS would be equally vulnerable to dumb administrators, wouldn't it make sense that the server with the larger market share would see more attacks?
I'm not sure I see how a software upgrade causing a "software hiccup" is an example of irony.
Maybe I'll try that on my boss sometime... "No, that's not a regression... That's an ironic hiccup"
Don't worry, there was just this new discovery I heard about called "fossil fuels." Apparently (and I don't have a citation for this, so you'll just have to take my word for it), when you burn it, it releases large amounts of CO2. So, when we screw up the ecological balance of the earth by removing too much CO2 from the air, we can just burn these "fossil fuels" to add lots more CO2 to the air. Who knows, by then we might even come up with some other use for these "fossil fuels", like powering our cars, or generating electricity...
~JW
Which is why you train hands on... I never denied that, was just pointing out that with modern technology choking on smoke is not generally necessary.
Filter breathing, wall breeching, bailouts, RIT, all sorts of things you should be training on regularly if you are on the line. How many chiefs need those hands-on skills? They need to have an understanding of their team's capabilities, and how to best utilize the resources they provide.
I know you couldn't pass up the opportunity to mention "burning flesh", but it should be pretty clear to anyone in the fire service (or anyone who RTFA for that matter), that this is designed for training command officers, not line firefighters or engineers.
And by the way djupedal... nowadays we wear this nifty new-fangle technology call "SCBA" which helps prevent that whole choking on smoke thing.
I can't imagine they spent the amount of money they did, without creating the ability to limit what the computer tells the trainee...
Simply because it's capable of creating complex scenarios, with all the accompanying information, doesn't mean it has to deliver all that information to the trainee.
~Josh
As a firefighter, I can say it would be very nice to know what's in a house. I'd be curious if a certain quantity of this stuff would warrant an NFPA 704 diamond on the outside of the structure...
That being said... there are plenty of dangers already. Propane cylinders, for instance, end up in the darnedest places.
Burning hot and fast, and exploding are indeed two different things. I would frankly prefer explosions though, at the scale we're talking about. Both will cause a rapid structural collapse, but an explosion is more likely to blow you free.
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The lack of a steering wheel might increase the risk of back and neck injury in an accident, however, due to the increased space you'd have to move in (even with an airbag).
Compared to the alternative of my body trying to occupy the same space as the steering column (or vice-versa)? Assuming a shoulder belt and head rest, the middle seat in the back is generally the safest seat in the car, precisely because there is less chance of a piece of the car intruding in your personal space.
I disagree. Certainly the 'resolution' isn't as high, given the level of ambient noise and the muffling of your voice caused by the facepiece, but it's still useful. A quick shout can give you a pretty good impression of the size of the room you're in, and any immediate obstacles. Paying attention to sounds (of both the passive and active origin) is a very important aspect of situational awareness in low visibility situations.
:p
Of course, life may be different for you water boys on the end of a hoseline.
~JW
Manlius FD, 32 Truck
If nothing else, it's worth noting this was announced in the month of Sol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
1) Army
2) Navy
3) Air Force
4) Marines
5) Coast Guard
Lenny was never Unstable. Unstable is always Sid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_rocket "Between the 1965 first flight and 1970, the Proton experienced dozens of failures."
If you want to get all "statisticy", sample size matters...
As far as cost per kilo goes, gasoline is cheaper (per gallon) if you buy it by the tanker rather than by the Honda Civic gas tank.
~JW
Or does the summary plagiarize itself...?
.under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet."
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"By the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resource can only meet the demand of 830 more days. If there is no available new resource by then, new netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. .
I wouldn't say it's the opposite. I would also make the case that Windows' popularity has had negative consequences on its security history.
;)
I think it's fair to say that GNU/Linux does have some better security philosophies, but if you put it (pick a distro...any distro...) on every Windows user's computer right now, you'd likely see a dramatic increase in the incidence of viri/worms targeting GNU/Linux being successful in the wild. So long as users are going to pick dumb root passwords, and give them away to the first "official" looking dialog box that asks, the problem will never go away.
OpenBSD on the other hand....
Perhaps I missed it in TFA, but I saw no weighting for market share...
To pick an arbitrary statistic, in June 2007 Google reported Apache with a 66% market share and IIS with a 23% share (source). Given that the TFA lists "Attack against the administrator/user" as the most common attack method by a wide margin, and it seems to me that both Apache and IIS would be equally vulnerable to dumb administrators, wouldn't it make sense that the server with the larger market share would see more attacks?
I'm not sure I see how a software upgrade causing a "software hiccup" is an example of irony. Maybe I'll try that on my boss sometime... "No, that's not a regression... That's an ironic hiccup"
Don't worry, there was just this new discovery I heard about called "fossil fuels." Apparently (and I don't have a citation for this, so you'll just have to take my word for it), when you burn it, it releases large amounts of CO2. So, when we screw up the ecological balance of the earth by removing too much CO2 from the air, we can just burn these "fossil fuels" to add lots more CO2 to the air. Who knows, by then we might even come up with some other use for these "fossil fuels", like powering our cars, or generating electricity... ~JW
So does this mean they'll be able to find Franklin's hand?
~JW
Which is why you train hands on... I never denied that, was just pointing out that with modern technology choking on smoke is not generally necessary.
Filter breathing, wall breeching, bailouts, RIT, all sorts of things you should be training on regularly if you are on the line. How many chiefs need those hands-on skills? They need to have an understanding of their team's capabilities, and how to best utilize the resources they provide.
I know you couldn't pass up the opportunity to mention "burning flesh", but it should be pretty clear to anyone in the fire service (or anyone who RTFA for that matter), that this is designed for training command officers, not line firefighters or engineers.
And by the way djupedal... nowadays we wear this nifty new-fangle technology call "SCBA" which helps prevent that whole choking on smoke thing.
I can't imagine they spent the amount of money they did, without creating the ability to limit what the computer tells the trainee... Simply because it's capable of creating complex scenarios, with all the accompanying information, doesn't mean it has to deliver all that information to the trainee. ~Josh
I certainly can. I also don't necessarily keep that information at my fingertips, and haven't had a need to research APCP. Hence the questions...
As a firefighter, I can say it would be very nice to know what's in a house. I'd be curious if a certain quantity of this stuff would warrant an NFPA 704 diamond on the outside of the structure... That being said... there are plenty of dangers already. Propane cylinders, for instance, end up in the darnedest places. Burning hot and fast, and exploding are indeed two different things. I would frankly prefer explosions though, at the scale we're talking about. Both will cause a rapid structural collapse, but an explosion is more likely to blow you free.