Had an unlisted number when we had foster kids. The new number used to belong to some deadbeat. Started getting automated calls for Joseph T****. I was not him, so the calls continued for several months. The recording gave a callback number and the automated call did not have any option to talk to anybody. Did a search online to find the culprit and found a collection agency in Illinois. Called their direct number and asked to be removed from their telemarketing and add me to their do not call database. They informed me it was not a telemarketing call. When given the number they claimed to fix it for me. This calling continued another couple of months with several calls to get it fixed. Last time I called they claimed the number the automated system was calling did not contian my number. I called BS and informed them continued calls will be recored by the answering machine with time and date stamp and will be billed at $50 each. They finally quit calling. If I didn't speak English, there would have been no way to get the calls stopped.

Runaway autmated collection calls must be stopped. I sould not have to spend that much time and effort to stop the calls. Almost had to change my number to end the calls. This should not be rockt science to fix. /End Rant. This does need fixed. All automated collection calls should have an option to contact a live person. No Exceptions. The BS of not fixing it because I am not the target is bad business. And yes they were reported to BBB.

This appears to be a new meaning from the old established Light Field used in microscopes. Light field is the normal microscope view. Normal is often referred to bright field. Dark field is a special illumination technique.

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Before 9/11 I had a service call. Took an 18 inch mechanics toolbox as carry one. Appologiezed for forgetting to remove a box cutter in screening and mentioned for them to take it as it would be easly replaced. They let me keep it but was more concerned with the screwdrivers at the time. I assuered them it would be kept under the seat and remain closed for the trip. They let me keep the box cutter.

Post 911 is more difficult to travel with tools.

LAT and LON data has been used to steal items listed on Craigslist or Ebay. Got a snowmobile or quad for sale? Got a really cute pet or child. It may be a good idea to use a camera without a GPS instead of your cell phone.

I've looked at some photos on the web to see where they were taken.

Only a government could think cutting a foot off one eond of a rope and sewing it on the other end will make it longer.

Quickest way to kill it is to send them the bill for coding, power, location hosting, backups, etc. As soon as they fund the expense it happens. It'll die as an unfunded expense.

The professor has a solid ethics case against the school fot a clear conflict of interest case. The reprimand could get the school in serious legal trouble.

This should be covered by the AMA instead. www.modelaircraft.org/

For travel, I have considered simply traveling with a Raspberry Pi with no thumb drive and a fresh install of Raspberian. The TSA is welcome to examine it in it's entirety including making a mirror copy of the micor SD. Be upfront with them that the device is entirely devoid of any personal information and contains only the fresh boot image. After reaching your destination, you can SSH into your personal files and buy a local thumb drive. Upon return, replace the micro SD with a fresh copy againi.

If you don't travel with the info, there is no info to be stolen by the governments. Be upfront and honest about it.

Unfortunately, the case appears to be improper Energized Electrical Work (EEW) Google EEW hotwork. There are many cases where EEW is performed. Common applications include linemen replacing cutouts, changing insulators, installing new cutouts for new home construction, etc. EEW hotwork requires special permits and tools and protective clothing.

Death and resulting fines was due to the failure of following proper proceedures for EEW hotwork. LOTO is preferred over EEW, but there are reasons to do EEW. Only those prpoerly trained and follow the permitting process may do EEW.

Google EEW Permit for more info. Many pepole are killed as in some codes 600V and under is considered LOW Voltage, not to be confused with Limited Energy Class 2.

Unfortunately much of the ISS is protected against harmful radiation. Some of the harmful radiation is very damaging to micro organisms..

I don't know much about the station's air filtration and purification. It may be time to introduce some UVA and UVB into the station to control the growth. This will both directly kill many as well as generating some ozone.

As the environment is adding food, and has no effective breakdown in place (soil), outbreaks taking advantage of the food source will be a normal cycle.

Cleaning to remove the food and colonies and population control with UV and ozone are options.

Anything government is a total mess. Today I needed a replacement SS card. no problem, fill out the SS 5 form found online and take it to the office with my ID. Sounds simple. Actually it was not.

1 the take a number sign in was out of papter. 12 minutes to wait for the paper to be replaced.
2 Wait 2 hours to be called. Run out and feed the parking meter.
3 Sent away because my drivers license is invalid ID. Why was it invalid? It is due for renual next month. It is not expired. Went in to start the renual. Was issued a temp paper while the replacement is mailed to me. I still have the original, but they punched a hole in it to invalidate it. If I didn't renew my license, it would still be valid until next month. Is there any higher level of incompentance other than fedral government? They can't take it not because it is expired, but because it is being renued. How stupid can the fedral government get.

Somehow I expect the same high livel of competance with health care. As long as I can afford it, I'm staying on a private plan. This scares me.

Many GPS receivers will output a very accurate 1 sec tic. I've used this to check for multipath drift from WWV in maintaining a cesium beam atomic clock in one installation. The time standards were used to callibrate RF equipment to NIST standards. Multi source verification validates source drift and gives the degree of confidence for the certification paperwork. If your tracable standards are accurate to each other with jitter and drift to 8 9's, you can validate equipment as to being within 7 9's. This would mean a 1 MHZ frequency standard could be validated to be between 999,999.9 hz to 1,000,000.1 hz against national standards.

Multiple calibrated standards would then not hetrodyne with each other more than 1 beat every 10 seconds. Most of the time the max obsurved beat would be less then 1 in 100 seconds.

http://www.nist.gov/pml/mercur...
GPS time is locked to a tracable standard along with WWV.

It is pretty bad when many VOIP services are under $20/mo including all of the US and Canada. Other than a captive user group, there is no reason for this to exist. One or two VOIP lines on the Internet should not be a burden.

A Google Voice line is free in the US and maybe elsewhere. No need to keep funds in the account unless you want overseas calls.

Many devices such as tablets and cell phones contain GPS, another hard to spoof time source. Multi factor authentication checking NTP, Cell tower time, and GPS would make a very robust system that could detect tampering. On an IMSI catcher, Time wrong, GPS time difference would catch it. NTP spoof, Cell and GPS mismatch would catch it. Local area GPS spoof, Cell and NTP would catch it. Targeting a mobile device with 3 factor time authentication + internal clock for 4 factor would be very hard to spoof undetected.

If you want to roll your own, GPS receiver modules for RC drones are under $20 online. Adding GPS to your NTP corporate servers is not difficult. You can protect your network with a little hardware and software.