They do not record your name (one of my friends works in the program, but isn't even allowed to tell me in a general way what she comes across), but they do take down, AFAIK, age, sex, ZIP, and complaint. It is used to compile drug use statistics.
It says it helps them improve decision-making, which is what disaster scenarios are about.
I used to write and run crisis training for a large multi-national, and we expected that the participants would make mistakes. The basic thing we tried to do was to give them a chaotic situation and to teach and re-enforce their roles and responsibilities. The main thing was that they knew what their role was, and that they stuck to it. All crisis situations are basically getting something under control. It is a bit different for first responders, but not much.
In our case it was a bit different because we were dealing with people who had a role within the corporate crisis structure, but it was not their actual job within the organization (normally they might head legal, HR or finance - for example). So we had to make sure they were periodically trained so that they would be familiar with how everything worked in the event that the crisis mechanism was activated.
Training for firefighters is a bit different because it is their main job, and it is reinforcing skills they will use regularly.
Was Digg ever given a takedown notice? I haven't followed this since the original flap over it, but at the time it seemed like Digg cowered at the idea that maybe they could get in legal trouble (or lose an advertiser).
When Digg changed their tune, some users rejoiced that Digg was now going to fight for them, possibly at the cost of the site. Digg even made a solemn pronouncement that they were taking some brave and bold step. But there was never any evidence of any fight. If there was a threat or takedown notice, Digg should have posted that.
I think a lot of people haven't even read this story (I must be new here, harrrrrrr). The guy didn't just run some underground Obama page, the campaign had access to it and fed him information. They were operating at a level of cooperation. The people he was dealing with seem to have changed as the campaign became more serious, and they wanted to bring the page in-house. They asked him for an amount. He gave them an amount. The next thing he knows, the campaign asks him to give Myspace his ok to turn over the account. He refuses, Myspace changes it anyways.
the concept of getting paid to maintain a MySpace account is a complete mindfuck. At least to me. Are you really supposed to be paid $50,000 for confirming friends and doodling with HTML?
Every top 40 artist has a Myspace run by some sort of record label staff, the site has profiles for most or all new release movies, etc. It has been demonstrated as an effective advertising tool. That is the only reason it was worth the money to NewsCorp. Just because you don't like Myspace, it does not make it a bad place to reach a college age (plus or minus) audience.
This may not mean that "passwords are getting better." It may just prove once again that people care more about their personal things than other people's stuff.
Is there a device that will call me if the temp in the house drops below a certain level? How about a broken pipe flooding the house? How can I keep advised of problems happening hundreds of miles away?
Well, you could tell your neighbours that you're going away and ask them to check in on everything every once in a while.
Granted this isn't a high-tech proposal, but it would probably be effective.
Depends on your community, but my grandmother left her house empty for a few months every summer and was able to notify the local police, they would check on the property periodically.
I work 2000+ miles from my house and rely on family to stop in once a week and take a look. Lawn service takes care of the rest. Granted, when i come home I need to do routine stuff like clean the gutters, change the furnace filter, drive the rust off of the brakes on the car, etc.
I have Abe Lincoln's head (the museum has the chair he was sitting in when he was shot), a figure of Henry Ford and a locomotive.
I think they also have machines that make the Wienermobile and other museum attractions as well.
Not the best reason to check the place out, but HFM and Greenfield Village are great places to go. It is an amazing and sometimes weird collection of the industrial era.
To get to the gates you go through security. But yeah, the LAX plot was supposed to detonate outside of the airport. Fortunately the bomb was stopped at the Canadian-U.S. border.
The "Mark II" "microbombs" had Casio digital watches as the timers, stabilizers that looked like cotton wool balls, and an undetectable nitroglycerin as the explosive. Other ingredients included glycerin, nitrate, sulfuric acid, and minute concentrations of nitrobenzene, silver azide (silver trinitride), and liquid acetone. Two 9-volt batteries in each bomb were used as a power source. The batteries would be connected to light bulb filaments that would detonate the bomb. Murad and Yousef wired an SCR as the switch to trigger the filaments to detonate the bomb. There was an external socket hidden when the wires were pushed under the watch base as the bomber would wear it. The alteration was so small that the watch could still be worn in a normal manner. [1] [5] [7] Yousef got batteries past airport security during his December 11 test bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 by hiding them in hollowed-out heels of his shoes. Yousef smuggled the nitroglycerin on board by putting it inside a contact lens solution bottle. The density of the explosive cocktail would be about 1.3.
Maybe I haven't been following robotic parking closely enough, but this article blurb doesn't make any sense. What license? Parking robots? What does this have to do with open source software? I could read TFA, but something that was coherent would help me decide if I really wanted to know more.
When I was "seperated from the company" as part of a "workforce reduction" I knew exactly what they meant. Especially since I was "relieved of my duties" to focus on my "internal job search" for the next two weeks, but I was also relieved of my laptop, ID badge, keys and office.
The former Wurthsmith AFB (now Oscoda-Wursmith Airport) has an 11,800 ft (3,597m) runway. It was previously used for B-52s and KC-135s, and now hosts some cargo and refurbishing air traffic.
Anyways, I have seen some engineers using the runway to test C6-R Corvettes. I would guess they worked for a private team, since GM has test facilities. Every once and awhile a fire truck and ambulance would park near the runway and a car would come out do a few passes down the runway.
I thought Joe Trippi's book on the Howard Dean campaign was interesting and I am not at all in the Dean or Kos end of the spectrum. If you think the Kos book sounds like it might lay on the politics pretty thick, try checking out The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. It speaks more to the use of technology for fund raising and organizing and leaves a lot of the politics in the background.
Disturbing, however, was the alarmingly long BEEEEEEEEP that I was greeted with once I tried to boot up the MacBook Pro post-RAM-installation. I had hit the power button but the screen was black and the sleep light in the front had blinked at me a few times...
Ellen Feiss:
I was writing a paper on the PC and it was like 'beep beep beep,' and then, like, half my paper was gone, and I was like, 'huh?'
Off topic perhaps, but the title of this article reminds me of the afterward of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses. That is their view of time. They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes.
When you think about it, that's a more accurate metaphor than our present one. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate. What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.
This was a perfect example of a correction and editing. They not only owned up to the mistake, they also included an avalanche of opposing opinion. They noted that the author's connections were not properly identified and have appended a correction to the earlier version of the story.
This is a reader-friendly, no-bones-about-it correction, and the New York Times could actually take a lesson from Fox News on this one.
Of course, the best thing would have been to get it right in the first place.
Proper design makes things useful and informative. Design permeates everything. Bad design can actually undermine or even negate the information being presented, as Edward Tufte and other have demonstrated.
When dealing with the presentation of information, clear design is essential. Those who write software, and especially those who work with UIs should always be mindful of it.
That said, this guy prettied up a document and filled it with gibberish. He has some interesting ideas and some solid concepts, but his demonstration of it is lacking. A control number because he thinks it looks cool, etc. He does not present a solid case for why the information in the original document would have been acted on had it been presented in his way. In fact, the issues surrounding this document go more to the nature of intelligence information and the ability to assess it than to the typeface that was used. I know some people think this memo is a smoking gun of incompetence, but hindsight makes everyone a genius.
In any case see Tutfe's examination of the way in which engineers tried to convince NASA not to launch the Challenger for a better deconstruction of improperly formatted information leading to a catastrophe.
I'll have a nice little toy that'll give me some first-hand experience of MacOS 10.4 plus my girlfriend will have a easy-to-use machine that she can play with when I'm hogging my PC.
Believe me, she'll hardly get to use it. These things have a way of sucking you in.
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If you visit an ER in a major city with an overdose (or any reaction to any drug, legal or illegal), there is a good chance the government will compile that data.
They do not record your name (one of my friends works in the program, but isn't even allowed to tell me in a general way what she comes across), but they do take down, AFAIK, age, sex, ZIP, and complaint. It is used to compile drug use statistics.
It says it helps them improve decision-making, which is what disaster scenarios are about.
I used to write and run crisis training for a large multi-national, and we expected that the participants would make mistakes. The basic thing we tried to do was to give them a chaotic situation and to teach and re-enforce their roles and responsibilities. The main thing was that they knew what their role was, and that they stuck to it. All crisis situations are basically getting something under control. It is a bit different for first responders, but not much.
In our case it was a bit different because we were dealing with people who had a role within the corporate crisis structure, but it was not their actual job within the organization (normally they might head legal, HR or finance - for example). So we had to make sure they were periodically trained so that they would be familiar with how everything worked in the event that the crisis mechanism was activated.
Training for firefighters is a bit different because it is their main job, and it is reinforcing skills they will use regularly.
Now I want to buy a Hummer just to piss everyone off.
Was Digg ever given a takedown notice? I haven't followed this since the original flap over it, but at the time it seemed like Digg cowered at the idea that maybe they could get in legal trouble (or lose an advertiser).
When Digg changed their tune, some users rejoiced that Digg was now going to fight for them, possibly at the cost of the site. Digg even made a solemn pronouncement that they were taking some brave and bold step. But there was never any evidence of any fight. If there was a threat or takedown notice, Digg should have posted that.
I think a lot of people haven't even read this story (I must be new here, harrrrrrr). The guy didn't just run some underground Obama page, the campaign had access to it and fed him information. They were operating at a level of cooperation. The people he was dealing with seem to have changed as the campaign became more serious, and they wanted to bring the page in-house. They asked him for an amount. He gave them an amount. The next thing he knows, the campaign asks him to give Myspace his ok to turn over the account. He refuses, Myspace changes it anyways.
the concept of getting paid to maintain a MySpace account is a complete mindfuck. At least to me. Are you really supposed to be paid $50,000 for confirming friends and doodling with HTML?
Every top 40 artist has a Myspace run by some sort of record label staff, the site has profiles for most or all new release movies, etc. It has been demonstrated as an effective advertising tool. That is the only reason it was worth the money to NewsCorp. Just because you don't like Myspace, it does not make it a bad place to reach a college age (plus or minus) audience.
This may not mean that "passwords are getting better." It may just prove once again that people care more about their personal things than other people's stuff.
Is there a device that will call me if the temp in the house drops below a certain level? How about a broken pipe flooding the house? How can I keep advised of problems happening hundreds of miles away?
Well, you could tell your neighbours that you're going away and ask them to check in on everything every once in a while.
Granted this isn't a high-tech proposal, but it would probably be effective.
Depends on your community, but my grandmother left her house empty for a few months every summer and was able to notify the local police, they would check on the property periodically.
I work 2000+ miles from my house and rely on family to stop in once a week and take a look. Lawn service takes care of the rest. Granted, when i come home I need to do routine stuff like clean the gutters, change the furnace filter, drive the rust off of the brakes on the car, etc.
Interpol has identified a suspect.
As the article notes, they have them at the Henry Ford Museum.
I have Abe Lincoln's head (the museum has the chair he was sitting in when he was shot), a figure of Henry Ford and a locomotive.
I think they also have machines that make the Wienermobile and other museum attractions as well.
Not the best reason to check the place out, but HFM and Greenfield Village are great places to go. It is an amazing and sometimes weird collection of the industrial era.
To get to the gates you go through security. But yeah, the LAX plot was supposed to detonate outside of the airport. Fortunately the bomb was stopped at the Canadian-U.S. border.
Haha, should have previewed.
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The "Mark II" "microbombs" had Casio digital watches as the timers, stabilizers that looked like cotton wool balls, and an undetectable nitroglycerin as the explosive. Other ingredients included glycerin, nitrate, sulfuric acid, and minute concentrations of nitrobenzene, silver azide (silver trinitride), and liquid acetone. Two 9-volt batteries in each bomb were used as a power source. The batteries would be connected to light bulb filaments that would detonate the bomb. Murad and Yousef wired an SCR as the switch to trigger the filaments to detonate the bomb. There was an external socket hidden when the wires were pushed under the watch base as the bomber would wear it. The alteration was so small that the watch could still be worn in a normal manner. [1] [5] [7]
Yousef got batteries past airport security during his December 11 test bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 by hiding them in hollowed-out heels of his shoes. Yousef smuggled the nitroglycerin on board by putting it inside a contact lens solution bottle.
The density of the explosive cocktail would be about 1.3.
Christ, this has .
Maybe I haven't been following robotic parking closely enough, but this article blurb doesn't make any sense. What license? Parking robots? What does this have to do with open source software? I could read TFA, but something that was coherent would help me decide if I really wanted to know more.
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
- Bob Ross
When I was "seperated from the company" as part of a "workforce reduction" I knew exactly what they meant. Especially since I was "relieved of my duties" to focus on my "internal job search" for the next two weeks, but I was also relieved of my laptop, ID badge, keys and office.
The former Wurthsmith AFB (now Oscoda-Wursmith Airport) has an 11,800 ft (3,597m) runway. It was previously used for B-52s and KC-135s, and now hosts some cargo and refurbishing air traffic.
Anyways, I have seen some engineers using the runway to test C6-R Corvettes. I would guess they worked for a private team, since GM has test facilities. Every once and awhile a fire truck and ambulance would park near the runway and a car would come out do a few passes down the runway.
I thought Joe Trippi's book on the Howard Dean campaign was interesting and I am not at all in the Dean or Kos end of the spectrum. If you think the Kos book sounds like it might lay on the politics pretty thick, try checking out The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. It speaks more to the use of technology for fund raising and organizing and leaves a lot of the politics in the background.
Jacqui Cheng:
Disturbing, however, was the alarmingly long BEEEEEEEEP that I was greeted with once I tried to boot up the MacBook Pro post-RAM-installation. I had hit the power button but the screen was black and the sleep light in the front had blinked at me a few times...
Ellen Feiss:
I was writing a paper on the PC and it was like 'beep beep beep,' and then, like, half my paper was gone, and I was like, 'huh?'
Episodes 1 through 12 are available free from the Guardian.
Off topic perhaps, but the title of this article reminds me of the afterward of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses. That is their view of time. They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes.
When you think about it, that's a more accurate metaphor than our present one. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?
Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate. What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.
This was a perfect example of a correction and editing. They not only owned up to the mistake, they also included an avalanche of opposing opinion. They noted that the author's connections were not properly identified and have appended a correction to the earlier version of the story.
This is a reader-friendly, no-bones-about-it correction, and the New York Times could actually take a lesson from Fox News on this one.
Of course, the best thing would have been to get it right in the first place.
Does it bother anyone else that an article with the headline Britney Spears gives birth to baby boy is listed under technology news?
We can rebuild her. We have the technology.
This same effect has been speculated upon since those of us in the Walkman generation were growing up.
Proper design makes things useful and informative. Design permeates everything. Bad design can actually undermine or even negate the information being presented, as Edward Tufte and other have demonstrated.
When dealing with the presentation of information, clear design is essential. Those who write software, and especially those who work with UIs should always be mindful of it.
That said, this guy prettied up a document and filled it with gibberish. He has some interesting ideas and some solid concepts, but his demonstration of it is lacking. A control number because he thinks it looks cool, etc. He does not present a solid case for why the information in the original document would have been acted on had it been presented in his way. In fact, the issues surrounding this document go more to the nature of intelligence information and the ability to assess it than to the typeface that was used. I know some people think this memo is a smoking gun of incompetence, but hindsight makes everyone a genius.
In any case see Tutfe's examination of the way in which engineers tried to convince NASA not to launch the Challenger for a better deconstruction of improperly formatted information leading to a catastrophe.
I'll have a nice little toy that'll give me some first-hand experience of MacOS 10.4 plus my girlfriend will have a easy-to-use machine that she can play with when I'm hogging my PC.
Believe me, she'll hardly get to use it. These things have a way of sucking you in.