Stop screwing around and get a college degree. Your jobs will suck until you do. Work at a crappy job with crappy pay if you have to, so long as it lets you get that degree.
Time spent at school affords you the people network and insight to answer this question yourself. Plus, you will have a college degree. Choose wisely and you will need a big wooden club to keep the headhunters away. Everything starts with college, and it is never too late. Assuming you are a citizen of the United States, you get more money after you turn 24 because your parents' income cannot be considered.
The beautiful thing about SLA AGM is that if you draw from them reasonably and you use a shallow cycle they just last and last and last. SLA AGM are the type used in UPS (Interruptible Power Supply) systems, but they are unfortunately taxed by inefficient inverters, which gleefully provide ~100AC to computer power supplies, which in turn provide 12V and less DC. Much of my time is spent changing swollen SLA AGM batteries in UPS systems. Laptops can be efficiently run on SLA, as wireless repeaters are (with nice beefy solar panels).
7.5, 10, and 12 AH SLA batteries are roughly the size and weight of a mason's brick. Fantastic performance and life-expectancy come when SLA batteries are run in series-parallel. Series is positive to negative, hence you add voltage (6V/5AH + 6V/5AH = 12V/5AH). Parallel is positive to negative, add capacity (6V/5AH + 6v/5AH = 6V/10AH). Thus, four 6V/5Ah can deliver 12V/10AH and *amazing* discharge current because the discharge ability of the cells is exponential in any case.
This should lead to a new space speed record. The simplicity is beautiful, and having paid attention to ion drive since Deep Space One (pun intended) I am surprised that they have just come up with this. Hell, I an surprised I hadn't come up with this. As far as I can tell this baby is beautiful in its simplicity.
If the typical current draw of a system is known, discerning the required battery is pretty straight forward. Sealed lead acid batteries are the least expensive and best performing way to go when it comes to relative performance. I cannot recommend any specifically efficient hardware, but I suspect that 'new' and 'mobile' will be the operative words in portable all-day systems, and those two usually indicate 'pricey' as well.
The largest sealed lead acid standard out there is 80 amp-hour. 80AH batteries are ginormous and probably excessive. Something like a 33AH SLA battery (pdf spec sheet) will probably hold up all day and is portable by nature. The battery usually has a handle as part of the case and weighs about 25 pounds. It is typically found powering a wheelchair. Sealed lead acid batteries like to deliver current, absorbed glass mat (AGM) varieties handle abuse, and they are designed to have regular discharge-charge cycles while handling overcharging. As far as power density goes, they are the most cost effective. Replacements will be readily available. Their size and shape lend the battery to being mounted to things (like desks). SLA 33AH AGM batteries are almost exactly automotive group U1 size, which are used in small tractors, so ABS plastic casings and brackets are widely available.
If your systems have a known average power consumption, all you need to do is multiply current at 12V (amps) by desired run time (hours), and add 20% to allow for battery aging or heavy use. Round up to the next highest battery capacity in amp hours. Simple stuff, I know. The next step will be your charging procedures. While batteries can be chained in parallel and charged, the best way is for each to be charged independently. You will have to consider the time allowed for each battery to charge against its capacity to discern the correct charging solution. For a 33AH battery, a charger that can achieve 6 or 7 amps per battery is ideal but it needs to be automatic. If a second set of batteries is added per system, a 3/4 amp non-automatic charger could be employed as other batteries are in use; battery "tenders" are commonly used for motorcycles and such and are inexpensive. The charging systems would be a near-one-time cost and the main expense would be the biannual replacement of derelict batteries.
IANA battery engineer, just a tech, but I hope this sheds some light. as an aside, NICD and NIMH cells are rated to 1.2 volts per cell, and Li-Ion/Li-Poly are 3.6 volts per cell. I sincerely doubt that a lithium based powered solution could be cost effective, because nobody can service them and they are not widely available in non-proprietary formats. Cool idea!
Symantec AV often lags behind in protection and definitions. The worst recent example that comes to mind is the spread of hacktool.rootkit (aka about a million things), which was implemented in countless malware releases. Symantec was AFAIK the only mainstream antivirus program that missed detecting it as it was installed.
My flavors of choice are: AVG Free antivirus LavaSoft Adaware
and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Very little can get by this trifecta. When I suspect that a machine has received an infection that these three can't remove, I research the individual piece of malware on sites like CastleCops or I just Google it by process name.
I would just put said finger in the jamb of a door and kick it shut. Just saying. I mean, the data are so valuable that they went to the expense of biometrics! zomg
Doors locked < The Club < in the garage < leave some shotgun shells on the dash. Fingerprint scanner < lock phone with PIN < lock phone with password < don't put secret data in an easily compromised system.
When it comes to security, this idea is both neat and worthless. And yes, when I go backpacking I leave some shotgun shells on the dash of my truck. All other things being equal, thieves will take the Prius.
You're absolutely right, but I would argue that it does not really even increase convenience. The last thing I need when my phone is ringing in a meeting, while driving, or at the dinner table is the horrific realization that I have forgotten to unlock the phone, and thus I must now meticulously subject myself to a fingerprint scan. Furthermore, many of us are negligent with proper care and handling of our cellphones. Until now that might result in a cracked outer screen or intermittently functioning button, but never in a total lock-out of an otherwise functional phone. So what happens when the reader is damaged? A hefty repair bill is what, and up to a month without that uber-vital super-secret data that just had to be protected with biometrics.
I have always felt that fingerprint scanning was ridiculous and cumbersome sci-fi, but real tests against this kind of security have shown that it is a waste of time and money. There is no replacement for properly managed and complicated password systems coupled with strong encryption. I regularly show friends and family how to create passwords that can be remembered but not guessed, and how to manage passwords that are outdated.
This reminds me of two prior/. stories. Bank employees merrily collected USB flashdrives that were scattered outside and proceeded to plug them into their terminals. Old cellphones purchased on eBay reveal secret data.
A lot of European countries do this sort of thing. In most cases it basically amounts to college, military, police, or civil service - your choice. I think it is a good idea, but if we implemented something like this in the United States we would have to leave the college option off the table, because there would be yammering about class and race inequity.
And when China, India, and the entire EU attack the United States for denying them corn rights, your "no war for corn" buddies can come act as human shields for you.
I sure wish that the United States would put 2.5 million people out of work by decreasing enlistment by 90%, too.
Referencing the earlier mentioned movie, Pi:
Sol Robeson:
Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.
Just that a pattern exists does not give meaning to the pattern. The Golden Rectangle was applied to the human body by Da Vinci and others, but no great significance can be discerned except that vertebrates tend to be symmetrical. The heavens did not burst forth as our creator revealed himself. The DNA pattern is more of the same - searching for patterns tends to yield them eventually.
For people with Verizon's V3m, V3c, and some other Motorola CDMA cells, you can flash the phone with Alltel's version of the OS.
Hack Your RAZR and you should be able to use bluetooth the way it was intended.
Research your model and I am sure you'll find countless hacks if you want to enable bluetooth. You can even configure most phones for free WAP access. --have fun.
The drilling company Lapindo Brantas was a subsidiary owned by PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk, in turn 60% owned and controlled by the Bakrie Group. [9] The Bakrie Group is owned by the Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie and his brothers[10]. Lapindo Brantas has taken over the initial responsibility and costs caring for the mitigation of the effects of the mud flow. It indicated to have set aside $ 140 million of which half had been used by September.[10] While officially not running the family business since joining the cabinet, A. Bakrie received protests by environmentalists in view of the damage done by his family's company. [11]
Yeah, government controls sure could have helped in this case. If their government had more control, they would probably claim to have been drilling for mud. Behold, the glorious mud harvest of the patriotic people of our great land! Surely all can see that the mud has proven to be most beneficial to the "People's Welfare!"
Good to know. I hope the iPhone is extremely successful and that it will shove other manufacturers into an innovation mode. If the service-after-the-sale element is solid, Apple can expect even more consistent growth in the cellular market and manufacturers will have to Adapt Or Die (TM). Maybe warranty services should have been handled by manufacturers instead of providers from day one.
For those who read that, the thing to do in this circumstance is to proceed like you are going to cancel your contract. Be friendly. You will likely be transferred two or more times. When you reach the person that is actually going to be canceling the account, calmly explain the circumstances leading up to that moment, and how it is more beneficial to simply pay the cancellation fees and call it a day. You will find that they are happy to capitulate. I recently managed to "con" one of my contracted services into erasing around $400 in charges. That is about 4 months worth of payments, but they essentially secured for themselves 12 additional months of payments. Just about every call center has a "retention department" who is specifically tasked to do whatever it takes to keep paying clients. The key is to be patient, friendly, and objective.
"Yeah, it's really a shame that I am going to have to cancel, because 9 million of my closest friends use Your Company. Unfortunately for us all, I just can't justify paying these charges when Company X is going to help me out." -- "Oh, wow, you have that kind of authority? Well if we could make this problem go away, I would definitely not cancel! I appreciate your help, and I am glad Your Company is willing to work with me on this."
Take specific notes including operators' ID numbers and exactly what was discussed - you will likely be referring to them later.
hello and my name is Prince Intembe Kumbobo and I am UK national reside Nigeria and having ran from polotical persucation from new administraton. My associates and me are set up a new party in nigeria To Disloge present administraton. we were and then are in large possession of sums of money and wish to use it to make Differences in uk. I friend, am sure that, you agrees with our plite and fear the Mr Bush and he's chronies.Please to forward to me your voter ID and PWD as well as our banking accounts numbers so to my vote then count. Exchanging in this, is our vote by your behalf and to you is $105343,54 USD in funds to make the vote. You are finding, this exchange is fair, or more than.
I don't doubt any of this. Big companies can never seem to nail the IT end of things. I never had a problem, however, calling in and getting problems solved with a Real Human Being (TM). For Sprint, Cingular and prepaid cellular accounts, getting problems fixed is typically a monumental task. I think Verizon's call center employees are more likely to be willing and able to help compared to other providers, based on my experience. We used a special number that got us straight to the retention department when caring for our clients.
I would also like to point out the strict nature of Verizon's credit score requirements, and the large deposits ($500 or more) that are required for Sprint^W less qualified applicants.
Granted, the revenue stream from added features seems to be the principal deal-breaker, but TFA also highlights that Verizon would be cut out of certain customer service decisions. However you feel about the company, they do pride themselves on their customer satisfaction numbers. As a retailer, I found their policies to err on the side of customer benefit.
Apple's terms would have cut out major retailers when it comes to the handset, making it more difficult to retain those retail partners. It also would have taken warranty policy from the carrier to the manufacturer - and the iPhone would be the only handset with this arrangement. I think customers would have hated it, but maybe Apple planned to be more fair. How are they on iPod warranty?
Verizon has been treading lightly with retailers since their split with Radio Shack (over R$ revenue). The separation hurt both companies right off the bat, and the implications of the separation are still developing. If Wal-Mart and Best Buy were cut out of the iPhone deal, they might have such a sour taste that they skip off to Cingular instead.
If Cingular's terms do not exclude third-party retailers, Verizon will suffer anyway.
The best way to be sure is to load up Ethereal/Wireshark, let it run while the computer is both idle and while a browser is running. Examine the destinations and sources of any traffic that looks out-of-place.
Slashdot Mirror
A witty saying proves nothing. --Voltaire
Stop screwing around and get a college degree. Your jobs will suck until you do. Work at a crappy job with crappy pay if you have to, so long as it lets you get that degree.
Time spent at school affords you the people network and insight to answer this question yourself. Plus, you will have a college degree. Choose wisely and you will need a big wooden club to keep the headhunters away. Everything starts with college, and it is never too late. Assuming you are a citizen of the United States, you get more money after you turn 24 because your parents' income cannot be considered.
*parallel is positive to positive* sorry for the typo
The beautiful thing about SLA AGM is that if you draw from them reasonably and you use a shallow cycle they just last and last and last. SLA AGM are the type used in UPS (Interruptible Power Supply) systems, but they are unfortunately taxed by inefficient inverters, which gleefully provide ~100AC to computer power supplies, which in turn provide 12V and less DC. Much of my time is spent changing swollen SLA AGM batteries in UPS systems. Laptops can be efficiently run on SLA, as wireless repeaters are (with nice beefy solar panels).
7.5, 10, and 12 AH SLA batteries are roughly the size and weight of a mason's brick. Fantastic performance and life-expectancy come when SLA batteries are run in series-parallel. Series is positive to negative, hence you add voltage (6V/5AH + 6V/5AH = 12V/5AH). Parallel is positive to negative, add capacity (6V/5AH + 6v/5AH = 6V/10AH). Thus, four 6V/5Ah can deliver 12V/10AH and *amazing* discharge current because the discharge ability of the cells is exponential in any case.
This should lead to a new space speed record. The simplicity is beautiful, and having paid attention to ion drive since Deep Space One (pun intended) I am surprised that they have just come up with this. Hell, I an surprised I hadn't come up with this. As far as I can tell this baby is beautiful in its simplicity.
If the typical current draw of a system is known, discerning the required battery is pretty straight forward. Sealed lead acid batteries are the least expensive and best performing way to go when it comes to relative performance. I cannot recommend any specifically efficient hardware, but I suspect that 'new' and 'mobile' will be the operative words in portable all-day systems, and those two usually indicate 'pricey' as well.
The largest sealed lead acid standard out there is 80 amp-hour. 80AH batteries are ginormous and probably excessive. Something like a 33AH SLA battery (pdf spec sheet) will probably hold up all day and is portable by nature. The battery usually has a handle as part of the case and weighs about 25 pounds. It is typically found powering a wheelchair. Sealed lead acid batteries like to deliver current, absorbed glass mat (AGM) varieties handle abuse, and they are designed to have regular discharge-charge cycles while handling overcharging. As far as power density goes, they are the most cost effective. Replacements will be readily available. Their size and shape lend the battery to being mounted to things (like desks). SLA 33AH AGM batteries are almost exactly automotive group U1 size, which are used in small tractors, so ABS plastic casings and brackets are widely available.
If your systems have a known average power consumption, all you need to do is multiply current at 12V (amps) by desired run time (hours), and add 20% to allow for battery aging or heavy use. Round up to the next highest battery capacity in amp hours. Simple stuff, I know. The next step will be your charging procedures. While batteries can be chained in parallel and charged, the best way is for each to be charged independently. You will have to consider the time allowed for each battery to charge against its capacity to discern the correct charging solution. For a 33AH battery, a charger that can achieve 6 or 7 amps per battery is ideal but it needs to be automatic. If a second set of batteries is added per system, a 3/4 amp non-automatic charger could be employed as other batteries are in use; battery "tenders" are commonly used for motorcycles and such and are inexpensive. The charging systems would be a near-one-time cost and the main expense would be the biannual replacement of derelict batteries.
IANA battery engineer, just a tech, but I hope this sheds some light. as an aside, NICD and NIMH cells are rated to 1.2 volts per cell, and Li-Ion/Li-Poly are 3.6 volts per cell. I sincerely doubt that a lithium based powered solution could be cost effective, because nobody can service them and they are not widely available in non-proprietary formats. Cool idea!
My guess: so elitists like us can complain. I hear ya, brother. AVG is ugly as a gorilla, too.
I gladly trade beauty for quality.
Symantec AV often lags behind in protection and definitions. The worst recent example that comes to mind is the spread of hacktool.rootkit (aka about a million things), which was implemented in countless malware releases. Symantec was AFAIK the only mainstream antivirus program that missed detecting it as it was installed. My flavors of choice are:
AVG Free antivirus
LavaSoft Adaware
and Spybot Search and Destroy.
Very little can get by this trifecta. When I suspect that a machine has received an infection that these three can't remove, I research the individual piece of malware on sites like CastleCops or I just Google it by process name.
I also keep archives of RootKitRevealer, peperfix.exe and HijackThis.
it is 2004 mn4. Near dupe article. Near earth asteroid. Eh.
I would just put said finger in the jamb of a door and kick it shut. Just saying. I mean, the data are so valuable that they went to the expense of biometrics! zomg
Doors locked < The Club < in the garage < leave some shotgun shells on the dash.
Fingerprint scanner < lock phone with PIN < lock phone with password < don't put secret data in an easily compromised system.
When it comes to security, this idea is both neat and worthless. And yes, when I go backpacking I leave some shotgun shells on the dash of my truck. All other things being equal, thieves will take the Prius.
You're absolutely right, but I would argue that it does not really even increase convenience. The last thing I need when my phone is ringing in a meeting, while driving, or at the dinner table is the horrific realization that I have forgotten to unlock the phone, and thus I must now meticulously subject myself to a fingerprint scan. Furthermore, many of us are negligent with proper care and handling of our cellphones. Until now that might result in a cracked outer screen or intermittently functioning button, but never in a total lock-out of an otherwise functional phone. So what happens when the reader is damaged? A hefty repair bill is what, and up to a month without that uber-vital super-secret data that just had to be protected with biometrics.
/. stories. Bank employees merrily collected USB flashdrives that were scattered outside and proceeded to plug them into their terminals. Old cellphones purchased on eBay reveal secret data.
I have always felt that fingerprint scanning was ridiculous and cumbersome sci-fi, but real tests against this kind of security have shown that it is a waste of time and money. There is no replacement for properly managed and complicated password systems coupled with strong encryption. I regularly show friends and family how to create passwords that can be remembered but not guessed, and how to manage passwords that are outdated.
This reminds me of two prior
A lot of European countries do this sort of thing. In most cases it basically amounts to college, military, police, or civil service - your choice. I think it is a good idea, but if we implemented something like this in the United States we would have to leave the college option off the table, because there would be yammering about class and race inequity.
Yeah, you nailed it.
And when China, India, and the entire EU attack the United States for denying them corn rights, your "no war for corn" buddies can come act as human shields for you.
I sure wish that the United States would put 2.5 million people out of work by decreasing enlistment by 90%, too.
Sol Robeson: Just that a pattern exists does not give meaning to the pattern. The Golden Rectangle was applied to the human body by Da Vinci and others, but no great significance can be discerned except that vertebrates tend to be symmetrical. The heavens did not burst forth as our creator revealed himself. The DNA pattern is more of the same - searching for patterns tends to yield them eventually.
Until I read your comment, I was bored with this story.
For people with Verizon's V3m, V3c, and some other Motorola CDMA cells, you can flash the phone with Alltel's version of the OS.
Hack Your RAZR and you should be able to use bluetooth the way it was intended.
Research your model and I am sure you'll find countless hacks if you want to enable bluetooth. You can even configure most phones for free WAP access. --have fun.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow: Yeah, government controls sure could have helped in this case. If their government had more control, they would probably claim to have been drilling for mud. Behold, the glorious mud harvest of the patriotic people of our great land! Surely all can see that the mud has proven to be most beneficial to the "People's Welfare!"
Good to know. I hope the iPhone is extremely successful and that it will shove other manufacturers into an innovation mode. If the service-after-the-sale element is solid, Apple can expect even more consistent growth in the cellular market and manufacturers will have to Adapt Or Die (TM). Maybe warranty services should have been handled by manufacturers instead of providers from day one.
For those who read that, the thing to do in this circumstance is to proceed like you are going to cancel your contract. Be friendly. You will likely be transferred two or more times. When you reach the person that is actually going to be canceling the account, calmly explain the circumstances leading up to that moment, and how it is more beneficial to simply pay the cancellation fees and call it a day. You will find that they are happy to capitulate. I recently managed to "con" one of my contracted services into erasing around $400 in charges. That is about 4 months worth of payments, but they essentially secured for themselves 12 additional months of payments. Just about every call center has a "retention department" who is specifically tasked to do whatever it takes to keep paying clients. The key is to be patient, friendly, and objective.
"Yeah, it's really a shame that I am going to have to cancel, because 9 million of my closest friends use Your Company. Unfortunately for us all, I just can't justify paying these charges when Company X is going to help me out." -- "Oh, wow, you have that kind of authority? Well if we could make this problem go away, I would definitely not cancel! I appreciate your help, and I am glad Your Company is willing to work with me on this."
Take specific notes including operators' ID numbers and exactly what was discussed - you will likely be referring to them later.
hello and my name is Prince Intembe Kumbobo and I am UK national reside Nigeria and having ran from polotical persucation from new administraton. My associates and me are set up a new party in nigeria To Disloge present administraton. we were and then are in large possession of sums of money and wish to use it to make Differences in uk. I friend, am sure that, you agrees with our plite and fear the Mr Bush and he's chronies.Please to forward to me your voter ID and PWD as well as our banking accounts numbers so to my vote then count. Exchanging in this, is our vote by your behalf and to you is $105343,54 USD in funds to make the vote. You are finding, this exchange is fair, or more than.
Many blessing.
Intembe
I don't doubt any of this. Big companies can never seem to nail the IT end of things. I never had a problem, however, calling in and getting problems solved with a Real Human Being (TM). For Sprint, Cingular and prepaid cellular accounts, getting problems fixed is typically a monumental task. I think Verizon's call center employees are more likely to be willing and able to help compared to other providers, based on my experience. We used a special number that got us straight to the retention department when caring for our clients.
I would also like to point out the strict nature of Verizon's credit score requirements, and the large deposits ($500 or more) that are required for Sprint^W less qualified applicants.
Granted, the revenue stream from added features seems to be the principal deal-breaker, but TFA also highlights that Verizon would be cut out of certain customer service decisions. However you feel about the company, they do pride themselves on their customer satisfaction numbers. As a retailer, I found their policies to err on the side of customer benefit.
Apple's terms would have cut out major retailers when it comes to the handset, making it more difficult to retain those retail partners. It also would have taken warranty policy from the carrier to the manufacturer - and the iPhone would be the only handset with this arrangement. I think customers would have hated it, but maybe Apple planned to be more fair. How are they on iPod warranty?
Verizon has been treading lightly with retailers since their split with Radio Shack (over R$ revenue). The separation hurt both companies right off the bat, and the implications of the separation are still developing. If Wal-Mart and Best Buy were cut out of the iPhone deal, they might have such a sour taste that they skip off to Cingular instead.
If Cingular's terms do not exclude third-party retailers, Verizon will suffer anyway.
The best way to be sure is to load up Ethereal/Wireshark, let it run while the computer is both idle and while a browser is running. Examine the destinations and sources of any traffic that looks out-of-place.