Maybe he wanted...
To make it more "Organic".
Of course "Organic" is a synonym for "more expensive and fancy sounding".
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I am reminded that shortly after the launch of the spacecraft, there was an update on Saturday Night Live (Weekend Update).
This just in from space.....
SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY.
Yes, Johnny B. Goode was on the record!
Me? I was in my PFY days helping out some on the Radioscience team. The PI was in an office upstairs.
You might want to be careful here. Some scanners attempt to do OCR on the text to make things "better" and screw it up sometimes.
This was documented in a story a while ago (1-2 years?). I think the brand was Xerox, but I'm not sure.
Somehow the "paperless" office is a long way off.
I will admit that they are getting closer. My MD has a computer in the exam room to do all the silly stuff (record vitals, enter prescriptions). I get emails telling me to log in and read the "secure" messages. Still paper is a fact of life!
Seems to be an ongoing problem. Just about everything is offensive to SOMEONE, and people who want to make a name for themselves complain.
Names are names, and descriptive as well. The terms described are well known in the computer industry (I worked on a computer form the 60's that had such terms) and no civil rights people bothered to notice. Now on over 50 years later someone is offended. Give me a break!
Of course some names get changed for bad connotations:
When it started it was "NMR" (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), but given the bad vibes of the word "nuclear", it was changed to MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). In the end it is the same thing.
The prices of the tickets. That might make them a little bit more concerned.
Maybe "discount fares for all" might be a good marketing tactic. Or as someone (salesman in a company I worked at) confirmed as a good idea: "Lose a little on each one, but make it up in volume".
"Or it could just be a weak spot in the Soyuz that just let go."
Must be that GREAT soviet build quality we've heard all about. As for the kapton tape, I wonder if Amazon has "two day delivery" to the ISS ready to go. Somebody must have fronted the bill for Amazon Prime somewhere in NASA, I would think.
...Subject to search (typically for contraband, but I digress).
That's been the rule for many an eon.
Deal with it.
My experience: I was with my brother, his wife and two younger siblings crossing (by land) from Germany (west at the time) to France. They decided to search our VW camper bus, and the first thing they looked at was my younger sister's dirty laundry. We sat at the side and ate slices of salami. It was quite entertaining. This was back when there were 4DM to the dollar, so that might date it.
My sister who lives in the eastern part of Oregon state (200 miles from Portland) has nice fiber into the house. The speed is AWESOME. Sometimes over 1 gig. I live here in sillycon valley, and the local modem test command yields something around 5 up/1 down (and that isn't Ghz!).
Maybe someone will string up fiber, but I'm not holding my breath!
Given that it is Nevada, and certain things ARE legal in that state, having "Maid Service" and a DO Not Disturb sign in entirely reasonable.
I don't think that those "Maid Service" employees are there to inspect your room as it were, but to provide other "services". I understand that this type of "Maid Service" is quite expansive though, and might not work out too well on expense accounts.
They should do a HARD crash if it remains the "default" after a set time (1 week sounds fine). If it remains, reduce by half each subsequent restart until it "bricks" and it won't do anything.
The other suggestion of no functionality until a password is set also sounds good to me.
I am reminded of an operating system from the late 60's that had its system password set to an address that changed with every system generation. You had to look at the listing to figure it out. So, it can be done.
Some equipment I was with when it was installed in the late 60's needed 3 phase power (before low power stuff) for operation. It also included a nice rotary machine (disk drive) that used three phase power as well. While the techs were there wiring it up, they actually tested to make sure that the phases were in order. They were, and all was fine. Later I found out that the equipment also had a phase sequence detector ahead of the motor relay to MAKE SURE that the phases were in the correct order. Pretty good design if you ask me.
Oh, yes all the 3 phase circuit breakers had the phases linked so if one tripped, others would as well.
That was 120-208 'Y' three phase. Then there is 120-0-120, 240, 240 "delta" three phase that has the "high" leg 208 volts above the "neutral" which isn't actually neutral, but the center of the other phase. It makes for interesting wiring if you think it is the other type as you smoke one of the three phases.
Live and learn.
Nice home routers that work well with IPv6. Most of the ones I see are woefully inadequate in this regard. We also need to have the DSL & Cable modems work with IPv6 addresses.
Then there is the addressing of IPv6, which allows for an IP address for every grain of sand the world has known (*SIGH*).
I suspect that IPv7 (whatever that will be) might be more to the point, and possibly backward compatible with IPv4 with little effort.
Then again wishing and hoping will only get you so far.......
To get the title and send an order into the Pentagon. They will deliver you a nice printed copy for a small (<$10 sometimes) sum. All you need to know is the proper report/publication number.
Spying made easy. You may even be able to order it on Amazon for some titles, I suspect.
Now where is the ISBN for that......
No, Californian. It probably doesn't make any difference, but somehow we are unique.
Thankfully I can enter my zip code and continue most of the time. As for fueling up, when last in Italy, (2007), it didn't seem that difficult. Navagating in Rome was an entirely different story. For even more humor, I think back to 1969 when I traveled with my brother in Italy. Then you used silly things like "gas coupons" so as a tourist you could get "cheaper" gas for your Lira.
Yes, I use a nice credit card, and it is "better" than the folded green stuff we have (with pictures of dead presidents, and other elder statesmen). It gives me a 1% "cash back" which can over time add up to a dollar or two. The only cash I carry around most of the time is an "emergency" $100 bill, or a few bucks for paying my "stupidity tax" that I walk to the local package goods store to get exercise. For the record, a tank of petrol for my vehicle is getting more expensive, as I just filled up for about $65 or so.
Life goes on...
I might get a bit enthused. When you get so much in your mailbox only to have most of it discarded, it really does "cost" people money to deal with it.
I'm sure that there are people out there who would willingly help in this law enforcement effort if they could haul their a**es to jail pronto!
Of course the same goes for robo phone calls to.
Oh, I'm not holding my breath.
Personally I prefer the 400 thread count cotton sheets. They are very nice and comfortable.
Oh, you were talking about some computing thing? Never mind.
Regards to Emily Litella
I've gotten a bunch of emails from them, and what do you know I've tested my connection a multitude of times and all is well.
Please stop sending me the emails. It is getting frustrating!
Of course they could do what my bank did, and just stop accepting connections. THUD!
Yes, I've driven this section of road a few times, some before the silly flyover for the carpool lane. Please note that I drive the vehicle, even when it has cruse control. Sometimes I tap the brake to disengage it, but I still drive the vehicle.
Sorry, I don't need a silly sparky vehicle that is truly unaffordable for all but people who want to be snobs, or just need to drive in the carpool lane. Yes, I drive a nice SUV that gets terrible mileage, but DOES have a 300+ mile range that I regularly use while driving down I-5 to southern California to visit in-laws (nice people, by the way). I sincerely doubt that I could make it there in any sparky car in under 6 hours like I do in my SUV.
I see many Waymo vehicles around, and they all have their Lidar beacons scanning the countryside. I have doubts that they will replace drivers soon for longer distances. I'd be willing to try one from the driveway of my house, down to my in-laws parking lot behind her condo. I suspect that it might run out of gas somewhere along the way, and probably take more that the requisite 6 hours. These companies have a LONG way to go. The silly sparky car isn't even close.
"There goes the neighborhood".
There is a certain understanding that data is fungable, and can be moved anywhere.
As an outsider (I don't have anything on GitHub), it seems to be that somebody has bought all the marbles, and MIGHT not let everyone play without changing the rules.
We can only hope that the previous owners might start up something new (It could happen, you never know). A couple of billion goes a pretty long way.
Which is all fine and good, but the patent office only thinks that "prior art" is that which is patented. Something outside that has been know for eons, just doesn't fit the bill.
In some cases, fortunately, we get judges, and (hopefully) juries that understand "common sense".
So, the patent office will patent, and the courts will continue to rule invalid. Life goes on.
...has room for every grain of sand on earth.
When IPv6 was "invented" they needed a proper method of "transition" to the new way of things. As far as I know, this was never published. IETF is wonderful for standards and engineering, but the "transition" is a very political problem, and they really aren't good at it.
Of course, if Google only allows IPv6 connections sometime tomorrow, it could take place pretty quickly.
Oh, if spammers could be trapped by it as well, there might be another good case for it.