Comment Anybody out there know morse? (Score 1) 49
I'm presuming that the beeps are Morse code for some silly message, but I only know enough Morse to recognize it, not 'read' it.
This really only leaves Chromebooks, which, essentially are netbooks, not full blown notebooks or desktops.
If a consumer wants a 'real' machine with a choice of OS (or no OS at all), the pickings are incredibly thin -- and many of those pickings are from manufacturers who pay the tax to Microsoft, whether or not they ship the box with an OS on it. Often, they even pay an extra tax if they sell too many macines without a Microsoft OS on them.
If this was about keeping us and our kids safe, We'd be paying a couple billion a month to MADD.
Personally, I think any TSA employee in charge of TSA procedures needs to go through said procedure/screening every day before work.
Actually, they need to be fired and replaced by people with proper risk management training, as opposed to risk avoidance.
Risk Avoidance: Do everything in your power to prevent some risk, no matter the cost
Risk Management: Assess the risk, consider the liklihood of the risk, the damage it will cost if it happens, then look at mitigations, how likely they are to work, how much they'll cost, etc... And make the cheapest decision. IE if on average the mitigation will prevent more loss than it costs, you impliment it. Otherwise you just accept the risk.
Class action lawsuit, anyone?
If Chad Oulson had had his own gun, he might be alive and well in jail today -- and the retired police officer (along with, possibly a couple of innocent bystanders) might be dead instead. Oh
BTW: According to FBI murder stats, if you own a gun, It's about 3-5 times more likely to kill a member of your family than to kill an intruder or other criminal.
In other words, if you care more about protecting your family from criminals than you care about keeping them alive, then you should definitely buy a gun.
It's Darwinism in action.
A proper understanding of the bible would allow him to argue that so-called 'literal' creationism is neither literal nor necessary to an appreciation and belief in god, Jesus and/or Christianity.
Less than a year after 9/11, and during a CODE RED alert weekend, I had a kid on my game server who had talked to me about being a fundamental muslim and having issues within that realm make a comment
"That's OK I"ll be dead tomorrow anyways".
Now, if ever there was a case that just stood out like a sore thumb and asked to be investigated, I couldn't think of something better. I was also, at that point just worried about his mental health, generally.
Turns out that the much-touted 1-800 terrorism hotline was already shut down.
It took me almost an entire day to find someone who would take my 'tip' and do something with it.... and that was pretty much in the middle of the post 9/11 hysteria. That's right... we're supposed to turn in tips about possible terrorism but almost all of the avenues of reporting have been shut down.
Not that I took the terrorism hype very seriously to begin with, but you'd think that they'd at least keep up the first layer after the facade.
Remember: No expectation of privacy -- which means that secrecy is a complete no-go..
Many years ago, a friend of mine told me a story about her 'original' land rover... She said that, using it's lowest gear (almost never used in normal driving), she was able to tow a snowed-in tow truck out of her back alley
(Bob Beck, if you're reading this: yes, this is your mother I'm talking about.)
On the other hand, I have absolutely no problem using the GUI solutions for most of the simple stuff. I would suggest that one of the first things you need to do is teach newbies when each tool is most appropriate -- not that one is unconditionally better than the other.
Put the switches inside of pretty, wood cases... with or without locks, depending on how much you trust the staff to play nice.
Unless you've got dozens of people running video, gigabit backbone runs should be enough... run multiple ggabit lines to the central switches if you have to, single gigabit to the floor switches.
Generally, bandwidth use tends to be sporadic, so network congestion shouldn't be that bad
I was wondering why this contract was costing so much to do so little.... It is all becoming a log clearer now. These people don't make money off of well managed projects (from the customer's point of view), they make money from BIG projects
I'm sure that the botch is well documented ISO9000 style and all, but success was not necessary for them to get paid.
Eyewitnesses reported that during Monday night’s 9:15pm Real3D screening of Gravity, a lone man (later identified as retired ISS Commander Chris Hadfield) began muttering under his breath and chuckling to himself. By the 30-minute mark, Hadfield reportedly made numerous rude comments such as, “Nice Soyuz procedure, Hollywood!” and “Oh yeah, because that’s what hypoxia as caused by rapid cabin decompression looks like you idiots!.”
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
