You know... LPFM is broken and the AM band is slowly bleeding away. How about this... open the AM bands to low power ( 25 watt) transmitters. Each station pays a minor fee like $20 per year, receives a callsign and agrees to not knowingly interrupt other broadcasters. Sure, some will anyway. The 50kw clear channel stations would still be kings and might even benefit from the new low power stations by gaining some of their audience. The whole issue of music royalties should have no play in the FCC dealings. If someone wants a station on 999kHz to ramble on in Creole about the evils of the FCC, go for it IMHO.

IMHO you will get nowhere contacting CIOs and CFOs. Do a little poking and contact the network admins or engineers. Have done that a few times and generally received thanks (and a few t-shirts and mousepads).

... but sucks harder when a government van shows up and feds arrests you for unknowingly breaking an environmental law or accidently crossing into a military area or just generally looking suspicious with a large rocket or robot or some funny electrical box with twinkling LEDs. Groups like UCSD, Tripoli and others who use the Mojave legally need to go through a considerable amount of red tape to legally do their experiments.

Unfortunately it isn't as easy as driving out there and running your newest AI experiment or shooting off a rocket. :-)

Something similar happened to me about a decade ago. Someone got my GMail account so Google locked my e-mail and shutdown my blog. It took more than a few e-mails and phone calls, but a week later everything was available again. Then again, a decade later, things at Google may have changed.

That said, since Mr. Cooper is in France, perhaps the TOS there is different from here. I don't know him or his technological prowess, but as others have hinted at here; perhaps he just doesn't know too much about the "cloud" or TOSs or backups or the internet in general. Chiding him about his lack of knowledge gains nothing. Help him, and others learn about these things rather than poking fun or throwing insults.

Seriously, even cloud services I pay for are backed up. My backups at home are backed up. Anything on any blog or e-mail account I have for free could be deleted, and while I might be pissed, would loose nothing but a few days performing restores. Backups just aren't that difficult any more.

I started a proof-of-concept project using inexpensive cameras operating autonomously to collect data and then use that to distribute to BOINC clients. My problem was the plate solving methods - the math was just a bit above my level. It CAN be done and there would be a huge number of astronomical objects to watch for: meteors; asteroids; novae; etc...

I remember my brother and I trying to Neck Pinch each other when we were little kids.

Hey NASA Folks - Here's a suggestion - Name a space vehicle after him... "Nimoy"

I know a lady that suffered a side strike back in 1985. She was in Texas, about the age of 19, getting out of a car when lightening hit a tree about 30 feet away. The side strike hit her and the car. She was thrown about 10 feet where she landed on the asphalt and lay there mostly unconscious for about 15 minutes. Her wonderful family (sarcasm) just set her back home on a bus to San Francisco. There, her husband immediately took her to the hospital because, "she just wasn't right."

Her immediate injuries: Burnt and split tongue; Tennis shoe sole had been melted into her right foot; numerous shattered teeth; fractured facial bones and tree-like markings on her upper back and lower right leg.

Her long term injuries: Brain scaring and lesions; scaring on the surface of many bones; numerous nerve related ailments; stroke in 1994; poor long term memory; generally can't remember much about what happened before the strike but does have flashes of memory if she looks at old pictures, etc...

She does have a super-power of sorts. With about 90% accuracy she can predict whether a thunderstorm is coming - without external references or information. She tells me that her skin tingles a certain way. Don't know exactly what that means, but after knowing her nearly a decade, I trust her tingly skin reports more than the meteorologists' predictions.

When I used my old Motorola Devour many years ago, business e-mails and even work on that thing at 3AM when I couldn't sleep was not unusual. The slideout keyboard on the Devour was a little small but was a helluva lot better than the touch keyboard. Sure, I had to factory reset the thing every month or so, but the keyboard was nice and the heavy Aluminum case gave it a nice solid feel. When my wife and I went out to get new phones last month, we settled on the LG Optimus. Not a bad phone per-se, we just like the slide out keyboards.

Back in 2001 when I was training for my PPL I thought of this exact same idea... A pool of pilots with planes that would be willing to ferry folks around for the price of gas. After researching all the possible problems the inevitable became obvious... This wouldn't work, all because of the reasons joe_frisch mentioned. The FBO operators and trainers I spoke with mostly liked the idea but told me it just "wouldn't fly." Think about how much more insurance would cost!

Have been working at home (telecommuting) for the past 5 years or so. Last year, did some extensive planning on spending a year on the road while working. The plan was to pack up the motorcycle and spend a year riding the country while working. Looks like that isn't happening now, but the plan was sound. Here are a few things I came up with to help out on my little trip. I don't see them previously mentioned, but might be... Didn't read all of the comments. :-P 1) Backups... Have two methods of backups for your PCs. One method should be local, the other remote. The local version could be flash/thumb drives, a little NAS device or whatever. The remote one should be a good on-line backup service. 2) If possible, have a remote machine to use. I have a remote machine out on the internet I can connect to through VPN if my main PC goes down. 3) Have a second machine at the ready. Your main machine could be a super-powered multi-core machine, but if it goes down for some reason, you need a backup. If you have a remote machine, then perhaps something like an HP-Mini would work. You could just Remote Desktop into your remote machine from your backup hardware & keep working while your main hardware is repaired or replaced. 4) Be sure all your hardware is minimally protected with a password. Depending on your work, more protection might be necessary / prudent. 5) Recovery/stolen computer locator service may or may not be worth the cost or hassle. A buddy of mine subscribed to a stolen laptop locator service. His house was broken into & laptop stolen. The locator service found it, but local police said it wasn't enough information to get a warrant or do much searching. If the service will brick the hardware if stolen/lost, that might be a good thing. 6) Always have two options regarding WiFi / internet connectivity. If the campground Wi-Fi isn't so good, maybe the fast-food joint 40 miles away would work... or maybe the coffee shop. For my plans, this was an important consideration. 7) Have a secondary cell phone on a different network. Even if it is a prepay, get it and keep it charged. There are many places where one service will work and the other will not. -Just a few notes from my notebook. Good luck!

Some very good suggestions on here, even though I do not agree they should be just pitched in the dumpster. If none of these options suit you, consider finding a local ham radio group or becoming a ham yourself. 802.11b/g falls within one of the frequency bands allocated to ham radio. Operated under that service (ham radio) you can use amplifiers, directional antennas and all sorts of other goodies. From what I read, you can go up to 100W out on a 802.11 b and up to (holy cow) 1500W on 802.11 g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio

IMHO, anything that comes out of Daley's mouth is highly subject. On one hand he wants "Brainiac High" and on the other he destroys an operating airport in the middle of the night without notifying FAA or aircraft owners with craft parked there. Why? "National Security." Yet, actually removing the airport make Chicago LESS secure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field

Are they basing this comment simply on earning potential? If so, that's far too narrow of scope. Even so, Living in Las Vegas, I know of card dealer and cocktail waitresses that make more money than I do... and THEY get more exercise.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about my salary at all. Just wondering about their judgement criteria.

What's better... Sitting in a cube all day or working outdoors? Being on-call 24x7 or doing the 9-5 thing? Seeing the sky and hearing the birds outdoors three or four times a day or enjoying it all the time? The selection of "Best Job" is purely a subjective one that only an individual can make. If money is the most important thing in your life, then maybe their statement is true for you.

Maybe I am starting to go through my mid-live crisis, but dang I hate being stuck indoors having to sit at a computer for 8, 9 or 10 hour or more a day.

Ken
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