...forgetting iDen, of course, which is trying to die. But the heavy users don't seem to want it to, and useful PTT is still very important to them, and PTT sucks on all other technologies.
What iDen does, it does very well, and nothing else compares. Oh,and you get Nascar! Weee!
"That's not regulation, that's cost minimization. (A free toilet is significantly cheaper than cleaning up after the alternative...)"
Flight safety and maintenance are not cost issues per se. For an airline with a clue, they are about maximizing profit and reducing inefficiency.
If a plane crashes due to maintenance issues, you have these consequences:
- Lost revenue. Passengers will be wanting refunds. The aircraft is not available for future flights, which will reduce revenue. Many airlines don't have capacity problems today, so this is not a big issue for them right now. Others however are sensitive to equipment availability.
- Inefficiency. It's generally cheaper to maintain the equipment than it is to replace it, insurance and spare equipment notwithstanding.
- Lost business. Perceptions of poor maintenance can lead to public image issues and potentially lost revenue. This is very hard to recover from. Note that the industry as a whole agrees to avoid taking advantage of competitors' safety issues to gain market share. Sharks apparently also do not eat each other, except in dire circumstances.
This particular incident is , at the root of it, not much different than a credit-card data disclosure, or dropping the bakcup tapes down the stairs, or failing to submit a bid because the computer crashed due to some malware. With the salient exception that people died. More reason to have redundant systems, backup manual processes, and even more rigorous IT security practices. We might, just might, see an effort by the FAA and aircraft manufacturers to require airlines and other operators to take aditional steps to secure their critical ground systems.
Yeah, when my short tenure at an interesting company ended, I took a bunch of stuff. Full backups of the primary and development systems, tons of code,
All of it on the express advice of the exiting CFO. He seemed to think I might be able to use it to get my last 4 paychecks cashed. Never did, but when the owner showed up somewhere else trying to make the system work, I got a call from his tech guy asking if I had any of the old code, and would I be willing to send it over. Hell, yeah, I was happy to send it. I even offered the tapes. All I needed in advance was the pay I was stiffed on. After his tech guy got all huffy, proclaiming that his boss 'wasn't that sort of a person', I told him to have the boss call me. What an earful.
Turns out, he had a mega-deal going with a really recognizable firm, all he had to do was deliver on short notice this system so they could go out and start signing subscribers. And I had the code base to fix it, since he only got an out-of-date copy of the system before he left, literally in the middle of the night. I told him I wanted my missing pay. He would send a check right out, all I had to do was email him the code. I said no, pay in full, and reminded him I stuck around to make it possible for him to have anything at all.
Never heard from him again. His mega-deal sputtered. The mega-company sputtered, and is not in the U.S. any more. You can occasionally buy their hardware on eBay, but the card to make it work is pretty much impossible to find. I have no doubt my old boss landed on is feet, last I heard he was making progress rebuilding a company and well on his way to another meltdown. But he kept the houses, cars, boats, and lost his wife. Ack.
I've still got the tapes and all, but they are useless to me. And I won't go out and scrounge a DLT drive just to relive a painful memory.
My boss before and after that? I left with nothing. But I got paid.
One of my more annoying clients finally got rid of the DDS2 lines and got local Internet connections everywhere. While making PiX VPNs actually work 24x7 and maintain out-of-band service connections was overwhelming for a while, I got a kick out of his expectations. He wanted to deliver software everywhere, and while it worked, it was never fast enough.
His big complaint was for a specific location in the middle of Maine. The local cable company promised him a 12MB down/3MB up connection. In 2004.
The cable modem had a 10Base-T connector. Yeah, and the PiX had 10Base-T also.
He never quite understood why the cable company would advertise the speed, and kept pressing me to get the modem in the 'right mode' to go over 10MB. Kevin, this one's for you.
I'm figuring my current Cox modem has a 10/100 port. This is good. But I'm not getting anywhere near what they claim.
When I lived in Portland, Maine, there was a period when Time-Warner delivered stupendous (for the time) speeds, and no one really seemed to care. It took a while until they sold enough users and started to tax the system, then it got slower and slower. Back in 1998 or 1999 or so I dumped 9GB from Novell's ftp site overnight. It was much faster than I expected, but I had ditched the ISDN BRI line I had for work, and it was night-and-day faster of course. Plus my BRI terminated to our T-1, and shared that with a dial pool and stuff. Ah, those were the days.
"The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage"
Me? I'm merely smoking a little. No one has noticed yet.
"The two sides hope to strike a grand bargain: radio would agree to pay around $100 million a year (less than it feared), but in return it would get access to a larger market through the mandated FM radio chips in portable devices."
Oh yeah, access is good. Now, who's going to convince the masses to turn ON those chips?
But wait, there's more...
It won't be long before the radio (and music) industry will want a tax on radios. They are already trying this by feeing the stations now on the air, and Internet stations. Next would be a tax on receivers. How convenient, millions of new receivers. The tax won't be much, a few bucks per unit. Of course, the new receivers in phones would pretty much quadruple the number of units, and presto, profit!
Outrageous. This is an excellent opportunity. Congress, just say no...
I'm done with corded headphones. A2DP Bluetooth headsets are my only choice.
So that antenna problem is solved, right? No.
PS- My Motorola S705 is slammin, scary range. Average sound quality, which for A2DP means it sucks the bottom end. But it HAS an FM Radio, which is entirely cool, and uses corded earphones, which is my one very rare surrender to the wires. I don't use the S705 much. My regular set is a BackBeat 906, which despite its shortcomings has pretty good sound. when i can no longer cleanse and dry them, I'll be off to either Sony-Ericsson or some boutique maker. Sound quality is important. Range is important. FM Radio is not.
"The COO and Controller emptied the safe and now I do not know where that paperwork wound up. I changed my critical passwords and VPN encryption keys. Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since."
So far, he seems to have left the COO and Controller either cowed that they didn't know htey had the passwords they were looking for, or confused that their net admin just answered a question with a question. Note he hadn't given them what they asked for, and didn't indicate at the time that they didn't have the authority to get them. So my concern was that he was close to using Childs' excuse - incompetence of superiors.
Then I read this:
"Now for my own sanity I still keep a copy of the records but it is no small feat to change all the sensitive passwords so I keep them in the safe of the owner who has already twice forgotten that he has it. He asks me for it personally sometimes. If the time came I don't believe he would know its in his safe."
I'm a little lost - is the 'owner' the COO? Probably not, so I'm fairly certain that either the COO and Controller did get their passwords (either by finding them or asking again with different results, good for them) or they did not (which would reinforce my point).
It's not nearly as clear to me as you claim it is to you. Either way, Vancorps seems to still have the job, so he (?) has a much better assessment of the situation than I do. No surprise there.
" Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since."
You realize that this is dangerously close to Childs' attitude.
When they asked you, you should have (as I would) informed tham that they had a list of the passwords from the CFO's safe. You have since changed them, knowing the safe was 'compromised', and you did not know the disposition of the contents. And then you should have delivered without hesitation, to the CEO, owner, or their authorized agent, the new passwords. And perhaps a written admonition to notify you whenever a critical exeuctive or manager is dismissed, so that you can take appropriate action.
When I was installing small-business systems, it was expected, mandatory, that I leave the business owner with those passwords and access details. When we provided access for our clients, the router configs were delivered on floppy (this is a while ago), and passwords again made delivered as well. Where they had a trustworthy or critical telecom or cable provider, they also got a copy of passwords. All of these also got a disclaimer, that if the passwords were compromised or given to unauthorized agents, or changed without notifying us, our responsibility for the functionality of the system, and SLAs, terminated as of the action, not on date of notification. I had two or three incidents where the passwords, etc., were misused or compromised, and we did not have any real difficulty with the client. Once they changed providers and the new provider ran roughshod through the network with predictable results. We explained the policy, and they clammed up. The owner blamed us, but in a year we were 'back in'... In anothe case, the owner changed consultants and ditched us, and made the changes in the middle of the night without notice. Hey, it's a 'Haitian divorce'. When he did notify us, we of course offered all asssistance, and saved the new player a lot of time figuring things out. That old boss saw no value in further annoying disgruntled customers or competitors. But if a client ever asked me for passwords, they got them. It's their system. If they really wanted to mess it up, they paid for it.
I use now 11 different combinations of 13 different passwords at work. A unique situation, yes.
But for personal, recreational access, I have only 16 different passwords for 22 different systems, from banking to email to social networks to my online servers. What a lot of fun. I have a list which is almost always obsolete, and keeping it in a PGP file is a nuisance. Teaching my wife how and where to open the file and get a password she hasn't used in months is no fun. She keeps a list of hers in the house. If they get into that, they got everything anyways.
I've been trying to use OpenID more, but it's not universal.
Oh, and when my eBay password got compromised a few years ago, I sat right down and change a BUNCH of other passwords... Just to be sure.
Yes, growing up is an excellent alternative, which government schooling tries to retard as much as possible. They reward docility, and penalize initiative and independence.
From my niece's point of view, as 4th grade teacher (I keep thinking she teaches 5th, where they seem to less animal AND less human:
docility - mistaking discipline for docility is wrong.
penalizing initiative - well, in 4th grade, initiative is usually going to interfere with class discipline, but offering to get the water for painting class is initiative. Asking where the water is when standing NEXT TO THE SINK, that's 4th grade.
penalizing independence - generally correct in 4th grade. But not always. Students that can put their supplies at least on the table, good for independence. Students that insist on screaming out their current emotion, not so much indendence. See discipline.
Now in high school, good traits. Same caveats, different examples.
I don't think my school experiences were marked by docility, lack of initiative, and independence. But that was long before the liberals took over schooling in America. We didn't need standardized tests back then. We had midyears and finals. In elementary school, we either passed, or repeated the grade. That doesn't seem to happen today.
- Alyson never responded to any service, complaint, or judgement. Default. MAYBE Scapegaming gets an appeal of the judgement, but that will require showing that multiple services were deficient. Good luck with that.
- Blizzard's counsel repeatedly failed. Insufficient service, missed deadlines, one dismissal for failure to prosecute. I think $63k is overpaying them.
- A judge recused themselves. Interesting, must have had stock or played in their free time...?
- This has been going on for nearly a year. Seems that Blizzard could have wrapped this up in 3 months had they been diligent.
Wow. Overall, a good case study in how long you can string out a suit by doing NOTHING. I'm surprised the judge let them reinstate.
Oh well, expect this to result in no money, siezure, and no more Scapegaming. Alyson will probably change her name, change the server names on the new hoster, and Blizzard will play whack-a-mole chasing her around. Funny.
"The strategy of any network affiliate is to draw in viewers with the entertainment, then keep them around for the news"
When you can reliably show me the difference between 'news' and 'entertainment' on any of the popular networks, let me know how you did it.
CNN, for instance, happily shows us features on Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga, missing children wherever, remains of someone recently deceased that, disgraced persons walking out of/into jail, etc. The LEAST of their features are on substantive national issues or political debate. They consider political coverage to be features on Congressional ethics scandals and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
MSNBC is no different.
The Comedy Channel at least offers more of a focus on political issues, and despite their attempts to make it snarky or at least funny, they end up with most of the cogent and insightful analysis. Not that U.S. politics is currently all that funny, but it is largely absurd, and hence ironically funny.
I get why so many people hate Fox. It's the same reason I hate all the rest.
Don't make it worse than it is. IF the data doesn't fit, it's fairly simple to smooth it. Or just correct for the assumed errors. This is not uncommon in other NASA projects.
I've got a G1, and had an Invisishield on it from the moment I carried it. Smudges are almost imperceptible on that stuff. I am not a seller for Zagg or Invisishield, just a customer.
But I scored a banged-up G1 as a root/test/spare, and while it needs a new housing, the bare screen shows smudges really badly. If I locked it, a monkey could guess the pattern. Maybe even a pickpocket could.
I'm usually at work when I quit, though this has not always been true. But a whiteboard from the fridge, a moment of feeling unappreciated, what the heck, post this. The gang at work will get a Kick out of it.
So, without encouraging this by actually RTFA, did her boss accept her resignation?
CNET reports here that this is an app external to the Android Market, and you had to get it from a maliscious (I assume) website.
I saw one report from a phone user claiming they saw it as a 13kb download that they didn't think they asked for, and deleted it. No idea if that is credible.
So it does appear, at least for now, that this is not a Market app.
"It works very much like public schools. People will bemoan the fact that schools are not doing well, except the school their child attends."
Around here, people complain a LOT about the school their child attends. Complaints include:
- No money for teaching French, but money to teach Spanish to kids that ONLY speak Spanish.
- No money for the arts, but money to fly a Mexican flag out front.
- No money for sports, but money to accept students from Mexico that take a bus across the border every day. Yes, every day of school. Yes, from Mexico. Oh, wait, they stopped that. Oh, wait, they didn't yet.
Consistency proves little. Leave this one alone. There is nothing to be gained by expecting people to be consistent. Perhaps we should ask them to be discerning, instead.
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...forgetting iDen, of course, which is trying to die. But the heavy users don't seem to want it to, and useful PTT is still very important to them, and PTT sucks on all other technologies.
What iDen does, it does very well, and nothing else compares. Oh,and you get Nascar! Weee!
Work with me here. This is complicated.
Someone posted:
"That's not regulation, that's cost minimization. (A free toilet is significantly cheaper than cleaning up after the alternative...)"
Flight safety and maintenance are not cost issues per se. For an airline with a clue, they are about maximizing profit and reducing inefficiency.
If a plane crashes due to maintenance issues, you have these consequences:
- Lost revenue. Passengers will be wanting refunds. The aircraft is not available for future flights, which will reduce revenue. Many airlines don't have capacity problems today, so this is not a big issue for them right now. Others however are sensitive to equipment availability.
- Inefficiency. It's generally cheaper to maintain the equipment than it is to replace it, insurance and spare equipment notwithstanding.
- Lost business. Perceptions of poor maintenance can lead to public image issues and potentially lost revenue. This is very hard to recover from. Note that the industry as a whole agrees to avoid taking advantage of competitors' safety issues to gain market share. Sharks apparently also do not eat each other, except in dire circumstances.
This particular incident is , at the root of it, not much different than a credit-card data disclosure, or dropping the bakcup tapes down the stairs, or failing to submit a bid because the computer crashed due to some malware. With the salient exception that people died. More reason to have redundant systems, backup manual processes, and even more rigorous IT security practices. We might, just might, see an effort by the FAA and aircraft manufacturers to require airlines and other operators to take aditional steps to secure their critical ground systems.
???
...guys like Dan Maes make me weep.
Please, lay off the Kool-Aid, ok? We got REAL problems to solve, making up new ones is not helpful.
PS - if the U.N. could, they would. But they can't, so we need not yet worry. Not yet.
Well, they do have enough devices to use maybe 10 class A nets, so IPv4 has another reason to go away.
And there are no more class A nets... Haven't been for a while. Class B gets one back every few years...
My G1 is addressed in the 26.112.125.... subnet. Interesting, because DNS is in the 10.177 and 10.162 subnets. So I guess I am consuming profilgately.
It also looks like it's a /32 subnet...
Yeah, when my short tenure at an interesting company ended, I took a bunch of stuff. Full backups of the primary and development systems, tons of code,
All of it on the express advice of the exiting CFO. He seemed to think I might be able to use it to get my last 4 paychecks cashed. Never did, but when the owner showed up somewhere else trying to make the system work, I got a call from his tech guy asking if I had any of the old code, and would I be willing to send it over. Hell, yeah, I was happy to send it. I even offered the tapes. All I needed in advance was the pay I was stiffed on. After his tech guy got all huffy, proclaiming that his boss 'wasn't that sort of a person', I told him to have the boss call me. What an earful.
Turns out, he had a mega-deal going with a really recognizable firm, all he had to do was deliver on short notice this system so they could go out and start signing subscribers. And I had the code base to fix it, since he only got an out-of-date copy of the system before he left, literally in the middle of the night. I told him I wanted my missing pay. He would send a check right out, all I had to do was email him the code. I said no, pay in full, and reminded him I stuck around to make it possible for him to have anything at all.
Never heard from him again. His mega-deal sputtered. The mega-company sputtered, and is not in the U.S. any more. You can occasionally buy their hardware on eBay, but the card to make it work is pretty much impossible to find. I have no doubt my old boss landed on is feet, last I heard he was making progress rebuilding a company and well on his way to another meltdown. But he kept the houses, cars, boats, and lost his wife. Ack.
I've still got the tapes and all, but they are useless to me. And I won't go out and scrounge a DLT drive just to relive a painful memory.
My boss before and after that? I left with nothing. But I got paid.
One of my more annoying clients finally got rid of the DDS2 lines and got local Internet connections everywhere. While making PiX VPNs actually work 24x7 and maintain out-of-band service connections was overwhelming for a while, I got a kick out of his expectations. He wanted to deliver software everywhere, and while it worked, it was never fast enough.
His big complaint was for a specific location in the middle of Maine. The local cable company promised him a 12MB down/3MB up connection. In 2004.
The cable modem had a 10Base-T connector. Yeah, and the PiX had 10Base-T also.
He never quite understood why the cable company would advertise the speed, and kept pressing me to get the modem in the 'right mode' to go over 10MB. Kevin, this one's for you.
I'm figuring my current Cox modem has a 10/100 port. This is good. But I'm not getting anywhere near what they claim.
When I lived in Portland, Maine, there was a period when Time-Warner delivered stupendous (for the time) speeds, and no one really seemed to care. It took a while until they sold enough users and started to tax the system, then it got slower and slower. Back in 1998 or 1999 or so I dumped 9GB from Novell's ftp site overnight. It was much faster than I expected, but I had ditched the ISDN BRI line I had for work, and it was night-and-day faster of course. Plus my BRI terminated to our T-1, and shared that with a dial pool and stuff. Ah, those were the days.
To convince our government to say NO!
"The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage"
Me? I'm merely smoking a little. No one has noticed yet.
"The two sides hope to strike a grand bargain: radio would agree to pay around $100 million a year (less than it feared), but in return it would get access to a larger market through the mandated FM radio chips in portable devices."
Oh yeah, access is good. Now, who's going to convince the masses to turn ON those chips?
But wait, there's more...
It won't be long before the radio (and music) industry will want a tax on radios. They are already trying this by feeing the stations now on the air, and Internet stations. Next would be a tax on receivers. How convenient, millions of new receivers. The tax won't be much, a few bucks per unit. Of course, the new receivers in phones would pretty much quadruple the number of units, and presto, profit!
Outrageous. This is an excellent opportunity. Congress, just say no...
I'm done with corded headphones. A2DP Bluetooth headsets are my only choice.
So that antenna problem is solved, right? No.
PS- My Motorola S705 is slammin, scary range. Average sound quality, which for A2DP means it sucks the bottom end. But it HAS an FM Radio, which is entirely cool, and uses corded earphones, which is my one very rare surrender to the wires. I don't use the S705 much. My regular set is a BackBeat 906, which despite its shortcomings has pretty good sound. when i can no longer cleanse and dry them, I'll be off to either Sony-Ericsson or some boutique maker. Sound quality is important. Range is important. FM Radio is not.
Well, this is what I read:
"The COO and Controller emptied the safe and now I do not know where that paperwork wound up. I changed my critical passwords and VPN encryption keys. Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since."
So far, he seems to have left the COO and Controller either cowed that they didn't know htey had the passwords they were looking for, or confused that their net admin just answered a question with a question. Note he hadn't given them what they asked for, and didn't indicate at the time that they didn't have the authority to get them. So my concern was that he was close to using Childs' excuse - incompetence of superiors.
Then I read this:
"Now for my own sanity I still keep a copy of the records but it is no small feat to change all the sensitive passwords so I keep them in the safe of the owner who has already twice forgotten that he has it. He asks me for it personally sometimes. If the time came I don't believe he would know its in his safe."
I'm a little lost - is the 'owner' the COO? Probably not, so I'm fairly certain that either the COO and Controller did get their passwords (either by finding them or asking again with different results, good for them) or they did not (which would reinforce my point).
It's not nearly as clear to me as you claim it is to you. Either way, Vancorps seems to still have the job, so he (?) has a much better assessment of the situation than I do. No surprise there.
" Then the time came where they wanted the list of passwords. I asked them where the old list was and I haven't heard anything since."
You realize that this is dangerously close to Childs' attitude.
When they asked you, you should have (as I would) informed tham that they had a list of the passwords from the CFO's safe. You have since changed them, knowing the safe was 'compromised', and you did not know the disposition of the contents. And then you should have delivered without hesitation, to the CEO, owner, or their authorized agent, the new passwords. And perhaps a written admonition to notify you whenever a critical exeuctive or manager is dismissed, so that you can take appropriate action.
When I was installing small-business systems, it was expected, mandatory, that I leave the business owner with those passwords and access details. When we provided access for our clients, the router configs were delivered on floppy (this is a while ago), and passwords again made delivered as well. Where they had a trustworthy or critical telecom or cable provider, they also got a copy of passwords. All of these also got a disclaimer, that if the passwords were compromised or given to unauthorized agents, or changed without notifying us, our responsibility for the functionality of the system, and SLAs, terminated as of the action, not on date of notification. I had two or three incidents where the passwords, etc., were misused or compromised, and we did not have any real difficulty with the client. Once they changed providers and the new provider ran roughshod through the network with predictable results. We explained the policy, and they clammed up. The owner blamed us, but in a year we were 'back in'... In anothe case, the owner changed consultants and ditched us, and made the changes in the middle of the night without notice. Hey, it's a 'Haitian divorce'. When he did notify us, we of course offered all asssistance, and saved the new player a lot of time figuring things out. That old boss saw no value in further annoying disgruntled customers or competitors. But if a client ever asked me for passwords, they got them. It's their system. If they really wanted to mess it up, they paid for it.
Oh well, my $.02
...so little hope.
I use now 11 different combinations of 13 different passwords at work. A unique situation, yes.
But for personal, recreational access, I have only 16 different passwords for 22 different systems, from banking to email to social networks to my online servers. What a lot of fun. I have a list which is almost always obsolete, and keeping it in a PGP file is a nuisance. Teaching my wife how and where to open the file and get a password she hasn't used in months is no fun. She keeps a list of hers in the house. If they get into that, they got everything anyways.
I've been trying to use OpenID more, but it's not universal.
Oh, and when my eBay password got compromised a few years ago, I sat right down and change a BUNCH of other passwords... Just to be sure.
FACEBOOK IS A SCAM.
They exist to derive value from your information. Friends, addresses, posts, even images.
That the scammers also sell you to other scammers should not be surprising.
So give Facebook only what you are willing to part with.
Ok?
Yes, growing up is an excellent alternative, which government schooling tries to retard as much as possible. They reward docility, and penalize initiative and independence.
From my niece's point of view, as 4th grade teacher (I keep thinking she teaches 5th, where they seem to less animal AND less human:
docility - mistaking discipline for docility is wrong.
penalizing initiative - well, in 4th grade, initiative is usually going to interfere with class discipline, but offering to get the water for painting class is initiative. Asking where the water is when standing NEXT TO THE SINK, that's 4th grade.
penalizing independence - generally correct in 4th grade. But not always. Students that can put their supplies at least on the table, good for independence. Students that insist on screaming out their current emotion, not so much indendence. See discipline.
Now in high school, good traits. Same caveats, different examples.
I don't think my school experiences were marked by docility, lack of initiative, and independence. But that was long before the liberals took over schooling in America. We didn't need standardized tests back then. We had midyears and finals. In elementary school, we either passed, or repeated the grade. That doesn't seem to happen today.
The alternative is obvious. Grow Up.
It looks like:
- Alyson never responded to any service, complaint, or judgement. Default. MAYBE Scapegaming gets an appeal of the judgement, but that will require showing that multiple services were deficient. Good luck with that.
- Blizzard's counsel repeatedly failed. Insufficient service, missed deadlines, one dismissal for failure to prosecute. I think $63k is overpaying them.
- A judge recused themselves. Interesting, must have had stock or played in their free time...?
- This has been going on for nearly a year. Seems that Blizzard could have wrapped this up in 3 months had they been diligent.
Wow. Overall, a good case study in how long you can string out a suit by doing NOTHING. I'm surprised the judge let them reinstate.
Oh well, expect this to result in no money, siezure, and no more Scapegaming. Alyson will probably change her name, change the server names on the new hoster, and Blizzard will play whack-a-mole chasing her around. Funny.
"The strategy of any network affiliate is to draw in viewers with the entertainment, then keep them around for the news"
When you can reliably show me the difference between 'news' and 'entertainment' on any of the popular networks, let me know how you did it.
CNN, for instance, happily shows us features on Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga, missing children wherever, remains of someone recently deceased that, disgraced persons walking out of/into jail, etc. The LEAST of their features are on substantive national issues or political debate. They consider political coverage to be features on Congressional ethics scandals and oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
MSNBC is no different.
The Comedy Channel at least offers more of a focus on political issues, and despite their attempts to make it snarky or at least funny, they end up with most of the cogent and insightful analysis. Not that U.S. politics is currently all that funny, but it is largely absurd, and hence ironically funny.
I get why so many people hate Fox. It's the same reason I hate all the rest.
You're letting the Clinton administrations off the hook, pretty much?
Don't make it worse than it is. IF the data doesn't fit, it's fairly simple to smooth it. Or just correct for the assumed errors. This is not uncommon in other NASA projects.
Nothing new here.
I've got a G1, and had an Invisishield on it from the moment I carried it. Smudges are almost imperceptible on that stuff. I am not a seller for Zagg or Invisishield, just a customer.
But I scored a banged-up G1 as a root/test/spare, and while it needs a new housing, the bare screen shows smudges really badly. If I locked it, a monkey could guess the pattern. Maybe even a pickpocket could.
Try using a screen protector.
For one thing, she's NOT AT WORK.
I'm usually at work when I quit, though this has not always been true. But a whiteboard from the fridge, a moment of feeling unappreciated, what the heck, post this. The gang at work will get a Kick out of it.
So, without encouraging this by actually RTFA, did her boss accept her resignation?
I've never had a drive that did ANYTHING after it was powered down.
This is a tremendous advance. And I RTFA, and it doesn't offer me much of an explanation.
CNET reports here that this is an app external to the Android Market, and you had to get it from a maliscious (I assume) website.
I saw one report from a phone user claiming they saw it as a 13kb download that they didn't think they asked for, and deleted it. No idea if that is credible.
So it does appear, at least for now, that this is not a Market app.
"It works very much like public schools. People will bemoan the fact that schools are not doing well, except the school their child attends."
Around here, people complain a LOT about the school their child attends. Complaints include:
- No money for teaching French, but money to teach Spanish to kids that ONLY speak Spanish.
- No money for the arts, but money to fly a Mexican flag out front.
- No money for sports, but money to accept students from Mexico that take a bus across the border every day. Yes, every day of school. Yes, from Mexico. Oh, wait, they stopped that. Oh, wait, they didn't yet.
Consistency proves little. Leave this one alone. There is nothing to be gained by expecting people to be consistent. Perhaps we should ask them to be discerning, instead.