Not sure which system you mean in your question, but here's my take:
C/A : By altering timings (jitter) on a few satellites, say when they are on the opposite side of planet from the USA, then the regions which use those satellites will have degraded GPS. (GPS being based on precision timing / radio ranging etc. Also important to note that most GPS receivers tend to ignore the strongest Satellites (the ones overhead) so it's the satellites nearer the horizon that provide the most accuracy - so some boffin had to work out a nice algorithm where a lat/long could be entered and an area within a few thousand miles would have degraded GPS. Problem was that airlines who fly world wide were affected by this, thus good 'ol Bill Clinton got the S/A turned off.
M-code: essentially uses public/private key encryption with every nation issued a different key for essentially different virtual circuit. The US can deny service or degrade any one feed selectively. - or more likely offer 'tiered' services where those most friendly nations (UK,AUS) can have accuracy for weapon delivery, and those other 'friendly nations' (don't forget Poland), have 'meh - slightly better than C/A but not good enough for weapon delivery).
The USA is rolling out their next gen GPS, - M-Code. It gives the US the ability to control accuracy on a 'per nation' basis. (unlike the old way under C/A code where inserted inaccuracy it was regional), or the current P-code (where i believe it is all or nothing - its just whether you have the codes or not.)
These days its just* a matter of adding another receiver card. As long as your system can combine the multiple nav sources (say through Kalman filtering) the more the better. - losing one source doesn't affect you too much.
ummm, news flash.... you know those weapons you're talking about? the ones inside "your office" AKA - World of Warcraft? well, they cannot penetrate into the 'real world' (the one we all live in) - no matter what level Sage/Dwarf/wookie you are.
Socializing healthcare does not make you a socialist. Putting healthcare in line with Police, Military, Fire Departments will not make a socialized State. (but hey, lets privatize those!!!). You can still have a large and profitable private sector along side - think of it as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Think about that next time one of your family members needs a liver transplant and is told by the Insurance Company that its too 'experimental' and decline to pay, just cos their profits are down for the quarter and someone has a monthly target to meet.
And before someone goes into a rant about the cost, don't you think spending money on fixing your broken and wounded is better than spending billions on killing others?
(didn't close a tag, here's the rest: )
Oh, and the video game thing. Ridiculous. Its just to try to win over some cheap ass votes. If parents really cared about what their children were playing, they'd take interest and keep an eye on it themselves and not blame the government.
I've seen people around here saying "oh but its too hard for parents to monitor games 'cos they'd have to play them".. well there are plenty of review sites (and room for new websites that rates games suitability for kids) that comment in more detail about what's in the game than the ESRB rating.
Socializing healthcare does not make you a socialist. Putting healthcare in line with Police, Military, Fire Departments will not make a socialized State. (but hey, lets privatize those!!!). You can still have a large and profitable private sector along side - think of it as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Think about that next time one of your family members needs a liver transplant and is told by the Insurance Company that its too 'experimental' and decline to pay, just cos their profits are down for the quarter and someone has a monthly target to meet.
And before someone goes into a rant about the cost, don't you think spending money on fixing your broken and wounded is better than spending billions on killing others?
I've seen people around here saying "oh but its too hard for parents to monitor games 'cos they'd have to play them".. well there are plenty of review sites (and room for new websites that rates games suitability for kids) that comment in more detail about what's in the game than the ESRB rating.
Good news for Samba. Still listening to that audio link, but it's interesting that the Samba team aren't allowed to release the information they receive, just use it for developing OSS.
I'm sure Microsoft will use this in their 'we support open source' campaign. (I've always reckoned Microsoft should release the code for their unsupported OS's such as Windows 3.11)
Doesn't cross license patent's, but Microsoft does have to provide a full list the patents that they believe Samba infringes. This allows Samba guys to code around it. Good news for them.
I heard about this yesterday, and searched the Toshiba's main website for a press release or anything. I found nothing beyond the article. If Toshiba are really doing this, i thought it would at least be a headliner on their website.
Anyone?? I'm wondering if this is even real.
my search here (you may have to filter for medical results)
Good idea to circumvent people using fake addresses in webforms. I guess they'd also have the problem of dealing with people that live in new streets/appartments that Google hasn't yet entered.
And yeah, the information that fakename generates makes no attempt to be valid - its just for testing databases etc, (and for me to use when 'mandatory fields' are presented on ridiculous webforms (I'm looking at you Solaris)). From the fakename generator FAQ:
Street address: The house number is a randomly generated number. The street name is pulled from a database of plausible street names for the state/country being generated. Odds are that the generated street address is not valid.
City, state, and postal code: We have compiled a database containing hundreds of thousands of valid city, state, and postal code combinations. One of these combinations is randomly pulled from the database for each identity.
Really, all this has been covered on Ultra-Slashdot in much greater detail.
Oh, and those of you who don't have Ultra-Slashdot, just send me your e-mail address, your Slashdot password, and your credit card number (just for verification), and I'll be sure to enable it for you..
Agree completely. I suppose what I was really getting at, and it seems you agree - is that its about making the effort - not by being slobby, messy etc - but in the other direction. You did it with nice folders and handouts and a good presentation in a relaxed environment, whereas I went through 4 brand new white shirts over 3 days of interviewing with very formal presentations.
I currently don't wear a tie unless I'm meeting with contractors or senior management from head office - anything less in my job would be be considered unprofessional by those I'm meeting with. If I worked for a creative company, at Google, or was as loaded as Branson, Gates or Jobbs (or worked in your work environment) then I'd certainly lose the formal clothing and show I'm serious about what I do in other ways - similar to what you did. In this job, I have to relate to the guys 'even though' I'm formally dressed - which can be a challenge if their first impressions are in the opposite direction from an interviewers.
So yeah, different strokes for different folks.
At the end of the day, my wife still gives me a hard time because I never 'dress nice' on weekends/ when we go out... heck. Weekends I avoid most personal hygiene till I've been up a few hours or 'told'. LOL.
So do you regard those of us that don't wear ties as less capable, then?
Of course not.
It is unfortunate that in this modern corporate world, where two candidates being equal in nearly all aspects, the one nicely dressed candidate tends to be considered better 'management material'. I don't always agree with it, it just seems to happen.
You can either complain about it or use it to your advantage. We have a couple of guys here who would make great managers, they just happen to be complete slobs.
I'm sure its a human perception thing.
Would you want the guy running the Country to dressed all scruffy in jeans with white socks and trainers?... oh wait..
we're way way off topic here, but to complement your story:
A buddy of mine had a job interview for an office job - in the telecoms field, and had previously only ever worked as a precision machinist (CnC type stuff in coveralls) since he left school. He asked my advice on what to wear to the interview (and subsequent job) because I worked in a corporate environment. I helped him chose a suitable suit, tie etc, and gave him some simple dress tips (for the corporate environment - and wasnt entirely sure what his office culture was like, but thought better dress up than down.
He was the only guy applying for the job that wore a tie - let alone a jacket. He got the job and wore his jacket and tie to work every day, (jacket off during working hours). In 6 weeks they made him the manager.
I've always reckoned it was that he *looked* like the boss, and it 'looks bad' with him sitting in a cube with the polo-shirts and tee-shirts. The fact he wasn't a complete muppet helped too.
Next time you think your boss is an idiot and wonder why he's your boss, you'll probably notice that the only difference between him and you, is that he dresses nicer.
So that is why the article made it to the front page - it was wearing a tie. Articles wearing greasy coveralls and have food stains down the front have no chance.
I might be wrong but I think large aircraft fuel tanks are part of the wings so there is no choice but to put wires through the cavity that holds the fuel.
Most of the wing is the tank, but not all of it. There is room behind the 'leading edge' and the trailing edge (between the aft of the tank and the front of the flaps/ailerons. ) This is where other services go, such as air ducts for the leading edge De-Icing (heating) systems, and wires that run to those little navigation lights way out there on the wingtips. Not to mention all the wires to and from the wheelwell (undercarage).
Not a good picture - but it shows what I mean: here
What, no one ever heard of vacuum lines? Or maybe pressurized lines?
Aircraft are required to operate at various altitudes (which have various temperatures and pressures) making compensating for differences in pressures and temperatures in a system that requires vacuum lines more difficult (and more difficult to maintain and keep calibrated). Early aircraft had a sight glass on the outside of the tank, but these are only good for reading volume and at a specific aTTitude (i.e on the ground)
intrinsic safety is a well understood practice within electrical engineering and has proven to be extremely safe and reliable when proper maintenance and operational maintenance procedures are used.
Modern aircraft fuel quantity measurement is through it's capacitance, as this compensates for temperature / volume, when it is the 'mass' (and hence energy) of the fuel decides which just how far you will fly. You are only interested in the mass of the fuel.
what with all the planes we lose every year to short-circuiting wires.
I don't recall this happening very often. Last one i remember was the center tank on an airliner that they suspected had developed a fault, and also had NO fuel - (blamed the vapor) but IIRC the fault being pinned on the fuel measurement system was not conclusive... I think they looked more closely at the fuel pump which normally sits submersed in the fuel with the electrics outside the tank. Run a pump dry and it gets hot. Heat + Oxygen + ignition source (vapor) = boom.
I think that not granting immunity would be unfair to those telco employees who would be convicted. I do think that any immunity granted should be only to the telco employees, and should only be for past incidents. Big brother should be slapped down, but those he coerced should be let off the hook this time and this time only.
Yes, but it was THOSE telco employees who had the authority to act for the Company in these matters and handed over the information WITHOUT A WARRANT. The people approached for the information would have known what the rules were, and decided to (or were coerced into) providing the information without a warrant. If they were unsure on the legalities (while being coerced), then then company Legal should have been bought in.
Only by these individuals being held accountable in some way, will it send a message to business that individuals acting on behalf of the organization have to act within the law. If they were 'coerced' using illegal threats, then the individuals within the Govt agency responsible should ALSO be held accountable. And this may weigh into the severity of the punishment the company reps receive.
Until INDIVIDUALS are held accountable, then Companies and large corporations will continue to break the law, presumably hoping the fine isn't too severe when/if they eventually get caught.
Hackers in the USA shouldn't be put out of business, they should be 'recruited' into cushy salaried jobs working for the Govt... One day they'll be the ones we HAVE to trust to defend us from attack.
I was in Best Buy (Rockwall,Tx) last Sunday, and I swear the guy thought he was a secret agent. He spoke like Captain Awesome and wore an ear piece putting his finger to it to inform the front desk we were on our way with our new purchase.
Perhaps this Best Buy should be sent a cease and desist for ripping off 'Chuck'.
To the sales rep's credit, he stopped trying to sell me Antivirus/anti-malware stuff after I said I was going to stick Ubuntu on the new laptop.... he just said 'Awesome, good choice'... (in his Captain Awesome voice... with a 'thumbs up' )
Yeah, I know. Quite annoying. Especially annoyed at the 3 e-mails I've received in the last 24 hours asking me how I'm enjoying my Solaris10 install and wanting me to sign up for service. They're about to get tagged as spam in my gmail.
Haven't yet installed it... (set the.exe to.iso extraction overnight and haven't yet burned to disk and booted - maybe this weekend.)
While I am quite put off by their aggressiveness in trying to get me to sign up I will still try it out though, but probably end up reverting back to Ubuntu unless it is particularly outstanding.
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Maybe not, but Hamachi does, very nicely.
Not sure which system you mean in your question, but here's my take:
C/A : By altering timings (jitter) on a few satellites, say when they are on the opposite side of planet from the USA, then the regions which use those satellites will have degraded GPS. (GPS being based on precision timing / radio ranging etc. Also important to note that most GPS receivers tend to ignore the strongest Satellites (the ones overhead) so it's the satellites nearer the horizon that provide the most accuracy - so some boffin had to work out a nice algorithm where a lat/long could be entered and an area within a few thousand miles would have degraded GPS. Problem was that airlines who fly world wide were affected by this, thus good 'ol Bill Clinton got the S/A turned off.
M-code: essentially uses public/private key encryption with every nation issued a different key for essentially different virtual circuit. The US can deny service or degrade any one feed selectively. - or more likely offer 'tiered' services where those most friendly nations (UK,AUS) can have accuracy for weapon delivery, and those other 'friendly nations' (don't forget Poland), have 'meh - slightly better than C/A but not good enough for weapon delivery).
yeah, what ^^ he ^^ said.
The USA is rolling out their next gen GPS, - M-Code. It gives the US the ability to control accuracy on a 'per nation' basis. (unlike the old way under C/A code where inserted inaccuracy it was regional), or the current P-code (where i believe it is all or nothing - its just whether you have the codes or not.)
These days its just* a matter of adding another receiver card. As long as your system can combine the multiple nav sources (say through Kalman filtering) the more the better. - losing one source doesn't affect you too much.
* in this game 'just' costs about $50K per unit.
ummm, news flash.... you know those weapons you're talking about? the ones inside "your office" AKA - World of Warcraft? well, they cannot penetrate into the 'real world' (the one we all live in) - no matter what level Sage/Dwarf/wookie you are.
;-p
I'm watching the kid and enjoying a glass of wine & reading the "n, funny" posts on Slashdot.
Could be worse. We could've been born that Starwars kid, or Sting.
Fixed. Now where's that coffee
Socializing healthcare does not make you a socialist. Putting healthcare in line with Police, Military, Fire Departments will not make a socialized State. (but hey, lets privatize those!!!). You can still have a large and profitable private sector along side - think of it as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Think about that next time one of your family members needs a liver transplant and is told by the Insurance Company that its too 'experimental' and decline to pay, just cos their profits are down for the quarter and someone has a monthly target to meet.
/rant. wget Coffee.
And before someone goes into a rant about the cost, don't you think spending money on fixing your broken and wounded is better than spending billions on killing others?
I've seen people around here saying "oh but its too hard for parents to monitor games 'cos they'd have to play them".. well there are plenty of review sites (and room for new websites that rates games suitability for kids) that comment in more detail about what's in the game than the ESRB rating.
Good news for Samba. Still listening to that audio link, but it's interesting that the Samba team aren't allowed to release the information they receive, just use it for developing OSS.
I'm sure Microsoft will use this in their 'we support open source' campaign. (I've always reckoned Microsoft should release the code for their unsupported OS's such as Windows 3.11)
Doesn't cross license patent's, but Microsoft does have to provide a full list the patents that they believe Samba infringes. This allows Samba guys to code around it. Good news for them.
I heard about this yesterday, and searched the Toshiba's main website for a press release or anything. I found nothing beyond the article. If Toshiba are really doing this, i thought it would at least be a headliner on their website.
Anyone?? I'm wondering if this is even real.
my search here (you may have to filter for medical results)
And yeah, the information that fakename generates makes no attempt to be valid - its just for testing databases etc, (and for me to use when 'mandatory fields' are presented on ridiculous webforms (I'm looking at you Solaris)). From the fakename generator FAQ:
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Agree completely. I suppose what I was really getting at, and it seems you agree - is that its about making the effort - not by being slobby, messy etc - but in the other direction. You did it with nice folders and handouts and a good presentation in a relaxed environment, whereas I went through 4 brand new white shirts over 3 days of interviewing with very formal presentations.
I currently don't wear a tie unless I'm meeting with contractors or senior management from head office - anything less in my job would be be considered unprofessional by those I'm meeting with. If I worked for a creative company, at Google, or was as loaded as Branson, Gates or Jobbs (or worked in your work environment) then I'd certainly lose the formal clothing and show I'm serious about what I do in other ways - similar to what you did. In this job, I have to relate to the guys 'even though' I'm formally dressed - which can be a challenge if their first impressions are in the opposite direction from an interviewers.
So yeah, different strokes for different folks.
At the end of the day, my wife still gives me a hard time because I never 'dress nice' on weekends/ when we go out... heck. Weekends I avoid most personal hygiene till I've been up a few hours or 'told'. LOL.
It is unfortunate that in this modern corporate world, where two candidates being equal in nearly all aspects, the one nicely dressed candidate tends to be considered better 'management material'. I don't always agree with it, it just seems to happen.
You can either complain about it or use it to your advantage. We have a couple of guys here who would make great managers, they just happen to be complete slobs.
I'm sure its a human perception thing.
Would you want the guy running the Country to dressed all scruffy in jeans with white socks and trainers?
Alien vs Predator
we're way way off topic here, but to complement your story:
A buddy of mine had a job interview for an office job - in the telecoms field, and had previously only ever worked as a precision machinist (CnC type stuff in coveralls) since he left school. He asked my advice on what to wear to the interview (and subsequent job) because I worked in a corporate environment. I helped him chose a suitable suit, tie etc, and gave him some simple dress tips (for the corporate environment - and wasnt entirely sure what his office culture was like, but thought better dress up than down.
He was the only guy applying for the job that wore a tie - let alone a jacket. He got the job and wore his jacket and tie to work every day, (jacket off during working hours). In 6 weeks they made him the manager.
I've always reckoned it was that he *looked* like the boss, and it 'looks bad' with him sitting in a cube with the polo-shirts and tee-shirts. The fact he wasn't a complete muppet helped too.
Next time you think your boss is an idiot and wonder why he's your boss, you'll probably notice that the only difference between him and you, is that he dresses nicer.
So that is why the article made it to the front page - it was wearing a tie. Articles wearing greasy coveralls and have food stains down the front have no chance.
Most of the wing is the tank, but not all of it. There is room behind the 'leading edge' and the trailing edge (between the aft of the tank and the front of the flaps/ailerons. ) This is where other services go, such as air ducts for the leading edge De-Icing (heating) systems, and wires that run to those little navigation lights way out there on the wingtips. Not to mention all the wires to and from the wheelwell (undercarage).
Not a good picture - but it shows what I mean: here
Aircraft are required to operate at various altitudes (which have various temperatures and pressures) making compensating for differences in pressures and temperatures in a system that requires vacuum lines more difficult (and more difficult to maintain and keep calibrated). Early aircraft had a sight glass on the outside of the tank, but these are only good for reading volume and at a specific aTTitude (i.e on the ground) intrinsic safety is a well understood practice within electrical engineering and has proven to be extremely safe and reliable when proper maintenance and operational maintenance procedures are used.
Modern aircraft fuel quantity measurement is through it's capacitance, as this compensates for temperature / volume, when it is the 'mass' (and hence energy) of the fuel decides which just how far you will fly. You are only interested in the mass of the fuel.
I don't recall this happening very often. Last one i remember was the center tank on an airliner that they suspected had developed a fault, and also had NO fuel - (blamed the vapor) but IIRC the fault being pinned on the fuel measurement system was not conclusive... I think they looked more closely at the fuel pump which normally sits submersed in the fuel with the electrics outside the tank. Run a pump dry and it gets hot. Heat + Oxygen + ignition source (vapor) = boom.
Only by these individuals being held accountable in some way, will it send a message to business that individuals acting on behalf of the organization have to act within the law. If they were 'coerced' using illegal threats, then the individuals within the Govt agency responsible should ALSO be held accountable. And this may weigh into the severity of the punishment the company reps receive.
Until INDIVIDUALS are held accountable, then Companies and large corporations will continue to break the law, presumably hoping the fine isn't too severe when/if they eventually get caught.
Hackers in the USA shouldn't be put out of business, they should be 'recruited' into cushy salaried jobs working for the Govt... One day they'll be the ones we HAVE to trust to defend us from attack.
I was in Best Buy (Rockwall,Tx) last Sunday, and I swear the guy thought he was a secret agent. He spoke like Captain Awesome and wore an ear piece putting his finger to it to inform the front desk we were on our way with our new purchase.
Perhaps this Best Buy should be sent a cease and desist for ripping off 'Chuck'.
To the sales rep's credit, he stopped trying to sell me Antivirus/anti-malware stuff after I said I was going to stick Ubuntu on the new laptop.... he just said 'Awesome, good choice'... (in his Captain Awesome voice... with a 'thumbs up' )
whatever you do, DO NOT LET THE ROBOTS NEAR THE CRAFT BOOKS!
I happened to me once, I still have the scars.
awesome site. Thanks.
Can't seem to find a RSS feed for 'command of the day' or similar.
Handy though. THanks,.
Yeah, I know. Quite annoying. Especially annoyed at the 3 e-mails I've received in the last 24 hours asking me how I'm enjoying my Solaris10 install and wanting me to sign up for service. They're about to get tagged as spam in my gmail.
.exe to .iso extraction overnight and haven't yet burned to disk and booted - maybe this weekend.)
Haven't yet installed it... (set the
While I am quite put off by their aggressiveness in trying to get me to sign up I will still try it out though, but probably end up reverting back to Ubuntu unless it is particularly outstanding.