Windows PC, Notebook, and Laptop Scout: Asus G51JX-A1 Features & Details
...pretty sweet, yes?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Collateral Murder
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Overview
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Guide to Your Rights and Responsibilities Under the Human Rights Code
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● Disability
▪ Accommodation
▪ Determining if undue hardship
▪ Ability to Perform Essential Duties and Requirements
this is where I get lost and wonder why we should be tasked with being our brothers' keeper at the tax payers' expense.
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/resources/Guides/GuideHRcode2?page=guide-Part-2.html#Heading537
The Future of Telecommunications Regulation
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The Future of Telecommunications Regulation
Professor of Finance and Economics
Pennsylvania State University
April 26, 1999
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In discussing the future of telecommunications regulations one needs to ask first, there is a future? Or is it just the same present and past repeating themselves, like in the movies, just like the Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray was condemned to live the same day again and again? It’s been over three years now since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. And yet, it seems like the old days, everywhere in new variants one looks, one meets dear old friends. There’s Interconnection, for example, and over there, good old RBOC IXC, looking as depressed as ever. And here is good old state jurisdiction. Among such truly companions, does one dare to speak of the future as anything but a continuation of the past?
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/articles/Naruc9.htm
The Future of Telecommunications Regulation
Eli M. Noam
Professor of Finance and Economics
Pennsylvania State University
April 26, 1999
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In discussing the future of telecommunications regulations one needs to ask first, there is a future? Or is it just the same present and past repeating themselves, like in the movies, just like the Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray was condemned to live the same day again and again? It’s been over three years now since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. And yet, it seems like the old days, everywhere in new variants one looks, one meets dear old friends. There’s Interconnection, for example, and over there, good old RBOC IXC, looking as depressed as ever. And here is good old state jurisdiction. Among such truly companions, does one dare to speak of the future as anything but a continuation of the past?
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/articles/Naruc9.htm
Start-Stop Making Sense
Start-Stop Making Sense
http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/COMISDN/STRTSTOP.HTM
...from the good olde Win31, "This is the communications configuration panel from Windows Terminal. It raises a number of interesting questions. Why would someone use 5 bits per character? Because a 5-bit code was used by very early Teletype equipment that was already obsolete in the 1950's. What is the right number of Stop Bits? Well, if you have a Teletype Model 33, the right answer is 2. If you have a Teletype Model 35, the right answer is 1.5. However, no device built in the last 20 years has needed more than 1 stop bit. What is Xon/Xoff Flow Control? XON and XOFF are byte values. The Teletype had a device to read punched paper tape. The XON character turned the tape reader on, and the XOFF character turned it off. Long after the last paper tape was burned, computers have maintained the tradition that XOFF can optionally mean "stop sending data," in which case XON means "begin sending again." What is parity? Before modems did error correction, parity provided a simple mechanism to detect characters corrupted by phone line noise. Today it is unnecessary and is typically disabled.
So in current use, the correct setting for the COM port is always 8-bit characters, no parity, 1 stop bit, hardware pacing (more about that later) and some speed faster that the native transmission speed of the modem. The panel to configure the COM port is left around because everyone is scared to get rid of it. The user should not be scared when presented by a large package of useless options. "...
http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/COMISDN/STRTSTOP.HTM
...from the good olde Win31, "This is the communications configuration panel from Windows Terminal. It raises a number of interesting questions. Why would someone use 5 bits per character? Because a 5-bit code was used by very early Teletype equipment that was already obsolete in the 1950's. What is the right number of Stop Bits? Well, if you have a Teletype Model 33, the right answer is 2. If you have a Teletype Model 35, the right answer is 1.5. However, no device built in the last 20 years has needed more than 1 stop bit. What is Xon/Xoff Flow Control? XON and XOFF are byte values. The Teletype had a device to read punched paper tape. The XON character turned the tape reader on, and the XOFF character turned it off. Long after the last paper tape was burned, computers have maintained the tradition that XOFF can optionally mean "stop sending data," in which case XON means "begin sending again." What is parity? Before modems did error correction, parity provided a simple mechanism to detect characters corrupted by phone line noise. Today it is unnecessary and is typically disabled.
So in current use, the correct setting for the COM port is always 8-bit characters, no parity, 1 stop bit, hardware pacing (more about that later) and some speed faster that the native transmission speed of the modem. The panel to configure the COM port is left around because everyone is scared to get rid of it. The user should not be scared when presented by a large package of useless options. "...
and
don't seem to have much interest in business!
email gone and no reply :(
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:18 PM
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***Edit2010041012:57
I re-sent the email and as I had suggested, it had in fact gone to a cyberblackhole.
Now, all that remains is to install. I have to clean uninstall iolo System Mechanic and don't want to do this either yet. What I'm waiting for is the the 1TB RAID 1 network storage so that I can put an (Acronis) image of the C drive before making any changes. Maybe I can keep 2 or 3 versions.
The folks at ajsystems.com responded immediately -- thanks!
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