When I think Segway, first I think of the annoying guy on the Arrested Development TV show, which itself is annoying. And then I think of
these photos from the Beijing olympics.
The TSA folks were probably just bored, and jumped at the chance to play terrorist make-believe. Now they feel foolish, but while it was happening it was probably quite a thrill.
Did Stevens have Thomas in mind when he wrote "it does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights of some magnitude.â
When Thomas was nominated to Brennan's seat, the biggest complaint I remember was not Anita Hill or his ideology, but his skills. To be on the Supreme Court ou're supposed to be a scholar.
I'm stunned that Sam Alito did not dissent. But I suppose his claim-to-fame is never finding a police-search that he didn't like. Since the search was conducted by a nurse and not the police, his record remains untarnished.
Although what if they actually did find drugs in the girl's underwear. Would Alito overturn the search then?
I haven't deployed DNSSEC yet on my external domains because of cost/complexity. When I looked into it, my options for DNSSEC were:
1) implement BIND and do the key management and rotation from the command line
2) spend $10,000 or so for an appliance from secure64 or nixu
3) spend $1k/month for a hosted DNS provider like neustar or verisign
4) install Win2008R2 RC and use it in producition
I work in a windows shop, so I'll probably go with option 4, but I'm surprised there aren't more set-it-and-forget-it tools out there for DNSSEC deployment. I'm open to recommendations.
You're at college. Get involved. Stop referring to IT/IS as "them" and instead make it "us". Participate with the student computer club, or the professional IT/IS department, and then you'll have a voice in campus policies, and after you pick up some credibility, you'll get the access you need to do your own stuff.
About 20 years ago Playboy Magazine picked MIT as one of the top ten party schools. Rumor was that Playboy called some random dude on campus who listed out all the parties happening that year, making it sound like they were all happening that weekend.
I feel badly for all those kids who chose MIT because of its top-ten Playboy ranking, only to go and find a bunch of nerds, forever regretting not going to Clemson instead.
Trademark the name (costs a few hundred dollars), even if it's just for a stylized word (not the typed word) in the secondary register. Then send a polite letter to the domain registrant asking for the name. Even a weak trademark might be enough to get them to shy away.
Incandescent lamps fail because the hot filament sputters off metal, gradually thinning the filament until it breaks.
You can slow this down a little by using gases like halogens or krypton, which reverse the sputter or slow the sputter, but the benefit is not dramatic.
To dramatically increase lifetime, you run the filament less hot. But while the lifetime goes up as the square of the voltage going down, the efficiency goes down as the cube (I think it's the cube might be more). So for the sake of efficiency, you want the hottest filament you can have.
This is the tradeoff with double-life incandescent light bulbs. The money they save you in lamps is more than offset by the cost of electric. The filament is a colder blackbody source, it lasts longer, it's more yellow, and less efficient. Don't use them unless they're for a bulb that's hard to change, like something you have to climb a ladder to get to.
In the opposite way, running a 75-cent lightbulb above the rated 2700k temperature, you'll get it more efficient and get whiter light. The bulb won't last as long you'll have to change it frequently. Maybe that makes sense for you, maybe not.
But long does the lamp last? It's easy to make an incandescent lamp more efficient. You just crank up the filament temp, but then your lifetime goes to pot. Lamps last 1000 hours because that's how frequently consumers are willing to unscrew and rescrew their bulbs.
I manage a local government.GOV website, and am probably part of the problem. Our main publication path for hearing/meeting notices is a Trumba webcalendar. They also get emailed to neighborhoods, but those lists don't have too many subscribers. Sometimes we get last-minute changes or cancellations, and we lack a tool to formally track those changes.
Worse, it's the government clerks and lawyers who actually author the meeting notices. And they will always tend to post the bare-minimum that they have to. They will post something short like "zoning board meeting. agenda: variance for 10 Elm Street" and leave out the part about how the zoning variance is for building a nuclear reactor at 10 Elm Street. They are not interested in transparency, but in disclosing only what they have to. If they advertise more, they are inviting trouble from pesky constituents against the government leaders who called for the hearing, so they don't do that.
We only recently started posting details/documents along with the meeting notices for our legislative body. One problem is that we had to develop both an internal app and webapp to organize and manage those documents. We have staff to develop that, but I'm not sure how a really small government (like a town with 5000 people) would cope. It would be nice if state government developed tools that local governments could use, but I doubt that's going to happen
I think the solution for smaller local/county governments will have to come from state and federal governments to develop tools for smaller governments to use. I'm not aware of any killer FOSS applications for tracking legislative issues, hearings, meetings, and such. The software tool just does not there.
They seem to have gone out of their way to stuff as many nostalgic moments in this movie as possible. And they wrote a ridiculous storyline just to put Leonard Nimoy on-screen.
Imagine how much worse Star Wars Episode I would have been, if Lucas made a big deal about Ben Kenobi and Yoda meeting for the first time. That's basically what they did in this Star Trek movie. Hopefully the next movie will stand more on its own.
The teaser paragraph on slashdot starts espousing about how the web is being used on all sorts of browsers and devices. Then it goes on to discuss webdesign for disabilities (blind, deaf, etc.). The two are basically unrelated.
This reminds me about how Bush started off talking about 9/11, and ended up calling on the USA to invade Iraq.
This would be great if Microsoft included a friendly P2V tool like platespin or vconverter. Then when people buy a new PC, it becomes short work to P2V their old XP system into a VM sitting inside their new system. A lot of people hate to upgrade for fear of losing their old files and settings.
Yes, I heard once that Google Inc. is careful to only hire "A list" employees, because if they hire any "B list" employees, then those people will end up hiring "B list" employees and it's downhill from there.
Nothing built into XP, Vista, or Group Policy supports time-of-day power management. Many cases the user never wants their PC to sleep/hibernate from 9-5, but after 7 it's fair game. Microsoft doesn't address such a situation. It's either all-or-nothing. The alternative is to spend a lot of time/money acquiring some 3rd party tool like Verdiem, but buying an enterprise tool, versus enabling a feature you already have, means most people won't do it.
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The people working for TSA are actually stupid ninjas. Ninjas 1, Pirates 0.
When I think Segway, first I think of the annoying guy on the Arrested Development TV show, which itself is annoying. And then I think of these photos from the Beijing olympics.
The TSA folks were probably just bored, and jumped at the chance to play terrorist make-believe. Now they feel foolish, but while it was happening it was probably quite a thrill.
Did Stevens have Thomas in mind when he wrote "it does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights of some magnitude.â
When Thomas was nominated to Brennan's seat, the biggest complaint I remember was not Anita Hill or his ideology, but his skills. To be on the Supreme Court ou're supposed to be a scholar.
I'm stunned that Sam Alito did not dissent. But I suppose his claim-to-fame is never finding a police-search that he didn't like. Since the search was conducted by a nurse and not the police, his record remains untarnished.
Although what if they actually did find drugs in the girl's underwear. Would Alito overturn the search then?
I haven't deployed DNSSEC yet on my external domains because of cost/complexity. When I looked into it, my options for DNSSEC were:
1) implement BIND and do the key management and rotation from the command line
2) spend $10,000 or so for an appliance from secure64 or nixu
3) spend $1k/month for a hosted DNS provider like neustar or verisign
4) install Win2008R2 RC and use it in producition
I work in a windows shop, so I'll probably go with option 4, but I'm surprised there aren't more set-it-and-forget-it tools out there for DNSSEC deployment. I'm open to recommendations.
You're at college. Get involved. Stop referring to IT/IS as "them" and instead make it "us". Participate with the student computer club, or the professional IT/IS department, and then you'll have a voice in campus policies, and after you pick up some credibility, you'll get the access you need to do your own stuff.
This is the point of being at college, after all.
About 20 years ago Playboy Magazine picked MIT as one of the top ten party schools. Rumor was that Playboy called some random dude on campus who listed out all the parties happening that year, making it sound like they were all happening that weekend.
I feel badly for all those kids who chose MIT because of its top-ten Playboy ranking, only to go and find a bunch of nerds, forever regretting not going to Clemson instead.
Trademark the name (costs a few hundred dollars), even if it's just for a stylized word (not the typed word) in the secondary register. Then send a polite letter to the domain registrant asking for the name. Even a weak trademark might be enough to get them to shy away.
Incandescent lamps fail because the hot filament sputters off metal, gradually thinning the filament until it breaks.
You can slow this down a little by using gases like halogens or krypton, which reverse the sputter or slow the sputter, but the benefit is not dramatic.
To dramatically increase lifetime, you run the filament less hot. But while the lifetime goes up as the square of the voltage going down, the efficiency goes down as the cube (I think it's the cube might be more). So for the sake of efficiency, you want the hottest filament you can have.
This is the tradeoff with double-life incandescent light bulbs. The money they save you in lamps is more than offset by the cost of electric. The filament is a colder blackbody source, it lasts longer, it's more yellow, and less efficient. Don't use them unless they're for a bulb that's hard to change, like something you have to climb a ladder to get to.
In the opposite way, running a 75-cent lightbulb above the rated 2700k temperature, you'll get it more efficient and get whiter light. The bulb won't last as long you'll have to change it frequently. Maybe that makes sense for you, maybe not.
But long does the lamp last? It's easy to make an incandescent lamp more efficient. You just crank up the filament temp, but then your lifetime goes to pot. Lamps last 1000 hours because that's how frequently consumers are willing to unscrew and rescrew their bulbs.
Let's also paint all the Grizzly bears white. That will address the problem of disappearing polar bears.
I manage a local government .GOV website, and am probably part of the problem. Our main publication path for hearing/meeting notices is a Trumba webcalendar. They also get emailed to neighborhoods, but those lists don't have too many subscribers. Sometimes we get last-minute changes or cancellations, and we lack a tool to formally track those changes.
Worse, it's the government clerks and lawyers who actually author the meeting notices. And they will always tend to post the bare-minimum that they have to. They will post something short like "zoning board meeting. agenda: variance for 10 Elm Street" and leave out the part about how the zoning variance is for building a nuclear reactor at 10 Elm Street. They are not interested in transparency, but in disclosing only what they have to. If they advertise more, they are inviting trouble from pesky constituents against the government leaders who called for the hearing, so they don't do that.
We only recently started posting details/documents along with the meeting notices for our legislative body. One problem is that we had to develop both an internal app and webapp to organize and manage those documents. We have staff to develop that, but I'm not sure how a really small government (like a town with 5000 people) would cope. It would be nice if state government developed tools that local governments could use, but I doubt that's going to happen
I think the solution for smaller local/county governments will have to come from state and federal governments to develop tools for smaller governments to use. I'm not aware of any killer FOSS applications for tracking legislative issues, hearings, meetings, and such. The software tool just does not there.
Is this Red Matter? Or is the thing you eject into the black hole at the end of the movie to cancel out the Red Matter?
Remember this guy who found a police-gps-tracker on his car, and listed it on eBay? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/187239 Whatever happened to him I don't know
It's still Zipper(tm). It's just not Zipper(R).
They seem to have gone out of their way to stuff as many nostalgic moments in this movie as possible. And they wrote a ridiculous storyline just to put Leonard Nimoy on-screen.
Imagine how much worse Star Wars Episode I would have been, if Lucas made a big deal about Ben Kenobi and Yoda meeting for the first time. That's basically what they did in this Star Trek movie. Hopefully the next movie will stand more on its own.
Cut the cable, keep the conduit, because even wireless internets runs over a series of tubes.
Long live the readme.txt.EXE virus
The teaser paragraph on slashdot starts espousing about how the web is being used on all sorts of browsers and devices. Then it goes on to discuss webdesign for disabilities (blind, deaf, etc.). The two are basically unrelated.
This reminds me about how Bush started off talking about 9/11, and ended up calling on the USA to invade Iraq.
This would be great if Microsoft included a friendly P2V tool like platespin or vconverter. Then when people buy a new PC, it becomes short work to P2V their old XP system into a VM sitting inside their new system. A lot of people hate to upgrade for fear of losing their old files and settings.
Yes, I heard once that Google Inc. is careful to only hire "A list" employees, because if they hire any "B list" employees, then those people will end up hiring "B list" employees and it's downhill from there.
Nothing built into XP, Vista, or Group Policy supports time-of-day power management. Many cases the user never wants their PC to sleep/hibernate from 9-5, but after 7 it's fair game. Microsoft doesn't address such a situation. It's either all-or-nothing. The alternative is to spend a lot of time/money acquiring some 3rd party tool like Verdiem, but buying an enterprise tool, versus enabling a feature you already have, means most people won't do it.
Will the ocean level rise, fall, or remain the same?
I'm betting it will rise a little bit because the salt concentration is different in the ice than in the ocean.
Didn't the California Assembly require his artificial sight be blurry, so that he couldn't use Google Earth?