Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
But wasn't the D&D toon from the 1980s the only time that the roles of Peter Cullen and Frank Welker were reversed? Most of the time when they were together, Cullen was the good guy (Optimus Prime, commander of the Voltron Force) and Welker was the bad guy (Megatron)...
In D&D, Cullen was the bad guy (Venger), and Welker was the good 'guy' (he played Uni).
Any other time where that happened with them, or that Cullen was the bad guy?
And here is where IMHO, the wrong decision was made. They elected to not take images to see the damage. If they did, and saw the damage, instead of trying to rush Atlantis back into orbit, could they not have:
Docked Columbia at the ISS,
Moved the crew onto the ISS (potentially saving their lives),
Conducted more analysis of the damage there, while
Giving NASA more time to ready Atlantis or Discovery to bring them back, or even have the Russians ready a Soyuz rocket.
That gets the crew somewhere that they would not be in danger of something catastrophic (like what happened to Columbia), at the cost of a bit more space and time in orbit. All could have made it back to Earth alive.
Not unexpected but a weird place for me was at Costco over the holidays. The Ultimate Gaming Console by Chicago Gaming that they sell for $2499.99 is actually running an embedded version of Linux with MAME. Someone had tripped over the power cord, unplugging it. I saw it boot up after they pulled it back in. I had thought about pulling the trigger on it until I saw that. Then I thought that I could build myself one for cheaper.
Follow the logic here, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
He was charged with violating HIPAA, based on the evidence confiscated by police during the evidence.
Since such evidence doesn't exist (as the police erased it/seems to have gone missing), shouldn't the charges be dropped? For all intents and purposes, the guy was arrested and charged for something that has not happened/did not happen.
This would mean that they would either a) have to let the guy go, based on lack of evidence, or b) produce the undoctored evidence, showing the missteps that police took. Either way, the guy walks, or the police gets dinged with evidence tampering.
First off, there is no 'ban' on personal electronic devices on the flight deck. According to both TFA and the original FAA press release, the FAA is asking carriers to create and enforce their rules regarding this. Absolutely NOTHING in the article outright bans them from using them on the flight deck.
Second, this only affects FAR Part 121 operations (read: commercial travel). Part 61 (General Aviation), Part 91 (Private Aircraft and Fractional Owners), and Part 135 (On Demand/commuters) do not appear to be affected by this 'request'.
Don't you just love it when the media jump the shark^H^H^H^H^Hgun on every single non-issue...
Starbucks is still trying to charge for WiFi.
I will meet you all at the Atlanta Bread Company, Panera Bread, or any of a number of other places that offer over priced coffee and Free WiFi.
It is probably because the Starbucks you went to is still a T-Mobile Hotspot. The one near my office is offers both T-Mobile and ATT WiFi. Also, from TFA, the store has to be US Company operated. YMMV if it is independently operated.
Purchase the unsubsidized phone. Apple is selling the phone outright for $399 (8G) and $499 (16G) without the contract. If you don't want the contract, or are unable to upgrade your phone with them at this time, you can still buy the iPhone outright.
It actually becomes $160 more expensive over the life of the contract.
This is variable.
I say that because through various resources (job, college, etc.) you could qualify for corporate, IRU, or FAN discounts (at least in the US). For example, the FAN discount I have from working at the Univ. of Nevada gives me a 15% discount on the phone plan (the cost of the data plan is included in the service now), 20% discount on any accessories bought at ATT, and any upgrade fees waived)[1].
Discounts vary from company to company and entity to entity, so the best bet would be to see if you qualify for one. the URL below will help you:
http://www.wireless.att.com/discounts
BL.
[1] personal email addresses won't work here. If it is with work or college or so, it should.
On top of urging them not to compromise, if Bush, last I was taught (and it sure as hell wasn't THAT long ago!), it still takes 2/3 majority of both the House and Senate to override the veto.
So if the Blues really want to stand up, urge them to stand up, and get some Reds on their side, and override the veto.
It isn't just as if our rights are being stripped away, but almost as if our elected officials have forgotten the power in theirs..
Having just completed a tour of the Northern California TRACON, I can tell you that hardware is not a problem. The hardware they are using in there is nothing but leading edge, including workstations with screens above it built by Lockheed Martin costing roughly $500M each (believe it or not, they undercut their competitor by half!), running ACE-IDS. This is still running Windows, while their TMU (Traffic Management), and weather monitoring systems were all already running Linux (didn't notice the distribution, but it looked to be running KDE).
Why would Weird Al need to ask Coolio for permission for this song? Coolio isn't the original artist for this. The original piece for this is Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder. Album was Songs in the Key of Life, released in '76.
Al could have easily asked Stevie (or lawyers representing him) for permission to use that, and wouldn't have needed to bother Coolio at all.
This is a bit out of context. It is not because no-one wants to use them, but a clash of availability versus American culture and lifestyle. For the past 50 years, automobiles have been the core of transportation for Americans, from teenagers on up. But that does not speak the same for the rest of the world.
In my time in Australia, I was WELL introduced to their mass transit systems, in both Sydney and Melbourne. For both cities, Trains, as well as Trams and buses, are their main modes (yes, MAIN) modes of transportation. Yes, people have cars there, but more than 100 million kilometers were travelled by train in 2002 alone; the bulk of it being in New South Wales, and Victoria (44 million and 32 million, respectively) alone.
Trains are very much alive, and will be for a very long time. It is just the United States, which has lacked in picking up on a trend that transports hundreds of thousands of people, in favour of polluting the air with carbon monoxide gases from car exhaust.
Probably old news, but we all know that the guys at SecurityFocus are collecting the IP addresses of those boxes in your logs from Code Red. Reuven Lerner has created aa perl module that is collecting the info, sends it to SecurityFocus, and emails the entity holding the block of IP addresses the visitor is from (via the MX record), informing them as well. Worth looking through.
In another sport, on the other side of the planet.. called Australian Rules Football. 3 years ago, radio stations down there (MMM, 3AW, and I believe JJJ) gave us int'l fans who couldn't afford to fly down there every week to watch a game, or turn on the TV, live RealAudio feeds of the game, including Ch. 7 (TV station) giving a live feed of the Grand Final. That was when the AFL found out "wow... there's money to be made in internet broadcasts!" So they started to offer it at a subscription price, and for AFL members only. Members and fans alike complained, and I believe they suffered a drop in membership, and are involved in a battle for Internet and broadcast rights, with the football clubs. clubs claim it's their property, since they're doing the playing, AFL believe it's theirs for it being their league.
This is still going on with the clubs and the AFL, but with MLB, it could get worse. Who will have the rights to the coverage? Remains to be seen.
The BBC is streaming the feed live, from their site. Check out the eclipse here.
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Well, for those coming from a PGP world and aren't familiar with the arguments/flags to GPG, or are still on that learning curve, there are programs to help with that, pgpgpg being one of them. With pgpgpg, you can pass normal PGP arguments to the program, which will run GPG with the equivalent arguments. Really good for those production programs (like the stable versions of Tin) that only use PGP. specify the path for pgpgpg to it, and it'll run gpg for you. Sign, encrypt, and off you go.
IIRC, pgpgpg is mirrored on ftp.gnupg.org, in/pub/gcrypt/pgpgpg.
MS, Netscape, MS, Mozilla. those are not the only available graphical web browsers, that can support what is available. Now, granted, that they are the most known, have the most features, etc. Those two browsers, actually the CAUSE of major problems. Reason: Marketing. They let themselves be known through very good marketing, that they are the two best browsers on the market today, regardless of Open source, Binary only, etc. Because of that, people have been making sites, only suited to those browsers (best viewed with yadda yadda). That is why there is the Anybrowser Campaign. The WWW is supposed to be for the internet, regardless of platform. Now, the two big Browser companies, have made it the complete opposite. So, What do you do? How do you get what you really want out of the Net, with a browser, that is trully in the medium?
Answer: Opera. The graphical brower, for the Anybrowser Campaign. All the functionality of Netscape, and IE, without the bloatedness of those things that "only those bowsers would accept", in a high end, robust, non-crashing browser. I've been using it for the past 3 months, and am enjoying it. Development for this, for Linux is still in the works, and is just about ready for a full Beta test. This is also being ported to Be (beta already available), OS/2, EPOC, Amiga, and other OSes. Take a look at it, at www.opera.com. You won't regret it.
You need something relaxing to code by. Bands/groups like Metallica, George Clinton, etc. They get me too wound up to dance or play guitar(which I've done for 10 years). Need something relaxing. Seal, Roachford, Anggun, Crowded House.. Those are the guys to sit down and work/code to. Grab a caffe mocha as well, and I'm good to go!
There is still, unfortunately, a problem with RealPlayer G2. I've queried newsgroups about it. Written to real. Until the problem gets resolved, most people are still stuck with using RealAudio 5.0 for linux. The.bin package for Real, from their site, is NOT compatible with glibc-2.1.*. I am using glibc-2.1.2 on my box (Slackware 4.0, compiled glibc-2.1.2 on my own). After downloading G2 Alpha, the problem still exists:
./g2a1_linux22.bin: Symbol `_IO_stderr_' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking ./g2a1_linux22.bin: Symbol `_IO_stdin_' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Segmentation fault
Real is either using glibc-2.0 for their glibc, the glibc-2.1.2 distribution is not correct. I doubt it's glibc. So, the problem is: Why use glibc-2.0 for building the package, when 2.1.2 is the current release? Until then, users of glibc-2.1.2 won't be able to use the new version of RealPlayer.
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong... But wasn't the D&D toon from the 1980s the only time that the roles of Peter Cullen and Frank Welker were reversed? Most of the time when they were together, Cullen was the good guy (Optimus Prime, commander of the Voltron Force) and Welker was the bad guy (Megatron)... In D&D, Cullen was the bad guy (Venger), and Welker was the good 'guy' (he played Uni). Any other time where that happened with them, or that Cullen was the bad guy?
That gets the crew somewhere that they would not be in danger of something catastrophic (like what happened to Columbia), at the cost of a bit more space and time in orbit. All could have made it back to Earth alive.
But that's just me, and I may be totally wrong.
Not unexpected but a weird place for me was at Costco over the holidays. The Ultimate Gaming Console by Chicago Gaming that they sell for $2499.99 is actually running an embedded version of Linux with MAME. Someone had tripped over the power cord, unplugging it. I saw it boot up after they pulled it back in. I had thought about pulling the trigger on it until I saw that. Then I thought that I could build myself one for cheaper.
Follow the logic here, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong. He was charged with violating HIPAA, based on the evidence confiscated by police during the evidence. Since such evidence doesn't exist (as the police erased it/seems to have gone missing), shouldn't the charges be dropped? For all intents and purposes, the guy was arrested and charged for something that has not happened/did not happen. This would mean that they would either a) have to let the guy go, based on lack of evidence, or b) produce the undoctored evidence, showing the missteps that police took. Either way, the guy walks, or the police gets dinged with evidence tampering.
This is absolutely misleading, everyone.
First off, there is no 'ban' on personal electronic devices on the flight deck. According to both TFA and the original FAA press release, the FAA is asking carriers to create and enforce their rules regarding this. Absolutely NOTHING in the article outright bans them from using them on the flight deck.
Second, this only affects FAR Part 121 operations (read: commercial travel). Part 61 (General Aviation), Part 91 (Private Aircraft and Fractional Owners), and Part 135 (On Demand/commuters) do not appear to be affected by this 'request'.
Don't you just love it when the media jump the shark^H^H^H^H^Hgun on every single non-issue...
BL.
Starbucks is still trying to charge for WiFi. I will meet you all at the Atlanta Bread Company, Panera Bread, or any of a number of other places that offer over priced coffee and Free WiFi.
It is probably because the Starbucks you went to is still a T-Mobile Hotspot. The one near my office is offers both T-Mobile and ATT WiFi. Also, from TFA, the store has to be US Company operated. YMMV if it is independently operated.
The Age in Melbourne Australia reported this two days ago. I love how slow the US News outlets are...
Simple solution.
Purchase the unsubsidized phone. Apple is selling the phone outright for $399 (8G) and $499 (16G) without the contract. If you don't want the contract, or are unable to upgrade your phone with them at this time, you can still buy the iPhone outright.
BL.
It actually becomes $160 more expensive over the life of the contract.
This is variable.
I say that because through various resources (job, college, etc.) you could qualify for corporate, IRU, or FAN discounts (at least in the US). For example, the FAN discount I have from working at the Univ. of Nevada gives me a 15% discount on the phone plan (the cost of the data plan is included in the service now), 20% discount on any accessories bought at ATT, and any upgrade fees waived)[1].
Discounts vary from company to company and entity to entity, so the best bet would be to see if you qualify for one. the URL below will help you:
http://www.wireless.att.com/discounts
BL.
[1] personal email addresses won't work here. If it is with work or college or so, it should.
So if the Blues really want to stand up, urge them to stand up, and get some Reds on their side, and override the veto.
It isn't just as if our rights are being stripped away, but almost as if our elected officials have forgotten the power in theirs..
BL.
Having just completed a tour of the Northern California TRACON, I can tell you that hardware is not a problem. The hardware they are using in there is nothing but leading edge, including workstations with screens above it built by Lockheed Martin costing roughly $500M each (believe it or not, they undercut their competitor by half!), running ACE-IDS. This is still running Windows, while their TMU (Traffic Management), and weather monitoring systems were all already running Linux (didn't notice the distribution, but it looked to be running KDE).
ACE-IDS had already been installed and been in use since 2002 at Potomac (Washington, D.C.) TRACON, DFW TRACON, Gateway (St. Louis) TRACON, Boston and Seattle TRACONS, Honolulu Center, and recently at Sacramento Int'l Tower.
The TRACONs should be all up to date; if not, shortly will be.
BL.
Why would Weird Al need to ask Coolio for permission for this song? Coolio isn't the original artist for this. The original piece for this is Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder. Album was Songs in the Key of Life, released in '76.
Al could have easily asked Stevie (or lawyers representing him) for permission to use that, and wouldn't have needed to bother Coolio at all.
BL.
This is a bit out of context. It is not because no-one wants to use them, but a clash of availability versus American culture and lifestyle. For the past 50 years, automobiles have been the core of transportation for Americans, from teenagers on up. But that does not speak the same for the rest of the world.
In my time in Australia, I was WELL introduced to their mass transit systems, in both Sydney and Melbourne. For both cities, Trains, as well as Trams and buses, are their main modes (yes, MAIN) modes of transportation. Yes, people have cars there, but more than 100 million kilometers were travelled by train in 2002 alone; the bulk of it being in New South Wales, and Victoria (44 million and 32 million, respectively) alone.
Trains are very much alive, and will be for a very long time. It is just the United States, which has lacked in picking up on a trend that transports hundreds of thousands of people, in favour of polluting the air with carbon monoxide gases from car exhaust.
Probably old news, but we all know that the guys at SecurityFocus are collecting the IP addresses of those boxes in your logs from Code Red. Reuven Lerner has created aa perl module that is collecting the info, sends it to SecurityFocus, and emails the entity holding the block of IP addresses the visitor is from (via the MX record), informing them as well. Worth looking through.
BL.
In another sport, on the other side of the planet.. called Australian Rules Football. 3 years ago, radio stations down there (MMM, 3AW, and I believe JJJ) gave us int'l fans who couldn't afford to fly down there every week to watch a game, or turn on the TV, live RealAudio feeds of the game, including Ch. 7 (TV station) giving a live feed of the Grand Final. That was when the AFL found out "wow... there's money to be made in internet broadcasts!" So they started to offer it at a subscription price, and for AFL members only. Members and fans alike complained, and I believe they suffered a drop in membership, and are involved in a battle for Internet and broadcast rights, with the football clubs. clubs claim it's their property, since they're doing the playing, AFL believe it's theirs for it being their league.
This is still going on with the clubs and the AFL, but with MLB, it could get worse. Who will have the rights to the coverage? Remains to be seen.
BL.
The BBC is streaming the feed live, from their site. Check out the eclipse here.
Well, for those coming from a PGP world and aren't familiar with the arguments/flags to GPG, or are still on that learning curve, there are programs to help with that, pgpgpg being one of them. With pgpgpg, you can pass normal PGP arguments to the program, which will run GPG with the equivalent arguments. Really good for those production programs (like the stable versions of Tin) that only use PGP. specify the path for pgpgpg to it, and it'll run gpg for you. Sign, encrypt, and off you go.
/pub/gcrypt/pgpgpg.
IIRC, pgpgpg is mirrored on ftp.gnupg.org, in
MS, Netscape, MS, Mozilla. those are not the only available graphical web browsers, that can support what is available. Now, granted, that they are the most known, have the most features, etc. Those two browsers, actually the CAUSE of major problems. Reason: Marketing. They let themselves be known through very good marketing, that they are the two best browsers on the market today, regardless of Open source, Binary only, etc. Because of that, people have been making sites, only suited to those browsers (best viewed with yadda yadda). That is why there is the Anybrowser Campaign. The WWW is supposed to be for the internet, regardless of platform. Now, the two big Browser companies, have made it the complete opposite. So, What do you do? How do you get what you really want out of the Net, with a browser, that is trully in the medium?
Answer: Opera. The graphical brower, for the Anybrowser Campaign. All the functionality of Netscape, and IE, without the bloatedness of those things that "only those bowsers would accept", in a high end, robust, non-crashing browser. I've been using it for the past 3 months, and am enjoying it. Development for this, for Linux is still in the works, and is just about ready for a full Beta test. This is also being ported to Be (beta already available), OS/2, EPOC, Amiga, and other OSes. Take a look at it, at www.opera.com. You won't regret it.
BL.
You need something relaxing to code by. Bands/groups like Metallica, George Clinton, etc. They get me too wound up to dance or play guitar(which I've done for 10 years). Need something relaxing. Seal, Roachford, Anggun, Crowded House.. Those are the guys to sit down and work/code to. Grab a caffe mocha as well, and I'm good to go!
BL.
There is still, unfortunately, a problem with RealPlayer G2. I've queried newsgroups about it. Written to real. Until the problem gets resolved, most people are still stuck with using RealAudio 5.0 for linux. The .bin package for Real, from their site, is NOT compatible with glibc-2.1.*. I am using glibc-2.1.2 on my box (Slackware 4.0, compiled glibc-2.1.2 on my own). After downloading G2 Alpha, the problem still exists:
./g2a1_linux22.bin: Symbol `_IO_stderr_' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
./g2a1_linux22.bin: Symbol `_IO_stdin_' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
Segmentation fault
Real is either using glibc-2.0 for their glibc, the glibc-2.1.2 distribution is not correct. I doubt it's glibc. So, the problem is: Why use glibc-2.0 for building the package, when 2.1.2 is the current release? Until then, users of glibc-2.1.2 won't be able to use the new version of RealPlayer.