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"MLB Reviewing Guillen Actions" is simply the infinite state of things as long as he is manager.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 03:18 PM) From a technological standpoint this isnt a huge stretch. Store and forward has been out for a while. From a data size standpoint its the voice recorder traffic that would have the most impact. The instrumentation data shouldn't be in a format that requires lots of data or packet size. The key issue is around integrity. You can encrypt this and use a satellite connection to spit this out with a second or two delay. You would just need some process to either hash the data for forensic integrity. IPSec has some of this built in, however you want to forensically mark and timestamp records. If integrity wasn't a huge issue you could use a dedup process like a wan/satellite optimization device to keep the uplink clean. With repeatable data, only send changes. In reality from a bandwidth standpoint, this isnt that much of an issue. You see in flight wifi now being offered. The overhead shouldnt be that much more than a few business travellers poking around on the internet. You make a good point about voice, that's data that is more dense and takes up more space than the simple diagnostic data. Still though, the overall data space is small in terms of server world. And as you also say, with the diagnostic data, it can be dynamic to only send updated values in some sort of tag-value pairs to cut down data width from mostly-repeated fixed format lines. This should be very doable.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:47 PM) That is a lot of data though. Every single bit of info from every single plane trip? Maybe if they figured out a way to not store it for very long it could work. But I have a feeling it would involve a significant amount of archiving if they made those changes. Well for one, the data is quite simple - its just a series of states that could be represented in short data fields, repeated continuously. One plane might generate a thousand bytes of data, tops, in each burst. If the bursts occur on the second, that's 60k per minute, 360k per hour, say an average flight time of 3 hours globally makes it about a megabyte of data per flight. In a day globally, there are what, 10k flights? That's 10,000 MB, which is 10 GB. If you store 7 days' worth, that's 70 GB. That's a small server, nothing huge. If an event occurs where data is needed, and the data is keyed with airline/flight info, then FAA/NTSB/ESA or whomever can just pull that data off for analysis. The data can then recusively be wiped after the 7 day window. And even if you wanted to keep it for a year, since its simple data, you just zip it down and put it on a tape somewhere. Storage is the least expensive part of this proposition, along with maintenance which could be just a few human beings at most. The expensive parts are regulatory changes and agreements, and the wildcard - I have no idea what the cost of the transmitters would be per aircraft.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 02:02 PM) Knowing how things get with federal regulations, I would bet dollars to donuts that an old rule requires them to have a recorder on the plane so they can't legally do it. The the second problem would be that no one is set up for that sort of data storage, and doesn't want to incur the costs of it. I think the data storage is the easy and cheap part. Its not a huge ton of data. The hard part, I think, is partially the regulations you mentioned, and partially the cost the airlines would incur in changing their aircraft to add on the transmitters.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) Whatever happened to NSS posting the data dumps. 1.8% GDP growth in Q1. Not good. I'll bet you it gets revised down. Weekly unemployment claims 429,000, 4 week moving average jumps back above 400k for the first time since Feb. Not good. Just seemed like after the first few times, people weren't really responding, so I figured no one cared (unless it represented a significant tide change, like the recent UE claims numbers are).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 11:19 AM) This one's already up there with the Palm Sunday Outbreak, and could easily surpass it (that one killed 271). Is that the one that hit MO/IL/IN some decades back, where there will multiple tornadoes of like F4 and F5 all travelling together in a long path?

So, one of the deep sea vessels they are using to look through the wreckage of that Air France flight that crashed for unknown reasons in the deep Atlantic, recently found the flight recorder chassis, lifting hopes that they may find a usable memory unit to process. Here is my question. Why, in the modern age, are these recorders still on the airplanes at all? Why not package up the data in chunks and send it in packets to collecting stations, to be stored on recursing hard drives for later use if needed? Its fairly simple data, and transmitters capable of bursting out that sort of data over thousands of miles are small and not that expensive. You wouldn't need a ton of data space either, because you could delete everything more than a few days old and just pull out what you need shortly after an event. Anyone know why it isn't done that way? Just a cost thing?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 11:59 AM) I would have guessed around 250 regular users, so the 300 figure seems about right to me. I like it the way it is. Not too many people clogging up the board with needless posts and such. It seems like we get a lot of lurkers who are just there for the information, which is also a good thing. And the lurkers include many members of the local (and sometimes national) sports media, in case you were curious.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) couldn't that be a pretty strategic default if you went to an expensive private school for a theatre major or religious studies degree? Heh, funny you say that. This person I know about... graduated from law school with a lot of debt, and declared bankruptcy within 6 months of getting out of school. That's one way to pay for law school. Amazingly, he has a job (a few years later) as a corporate counsel with a software firm. I have to say, I'd be highly leery of hiring someone to that sensitive a position who went through a bankruptcy that recently. So that's one of many potential negative impacts - it may make it hard to get a job in certain sectors. Another example... the reason I know all this is, this person sent me an application to rent an apartment from me. Credit check revealed the bankruptcy, and some googling gave me the rest of the picture. I elected not to have him as a renter, because to me, this guy looks like someone who may choose to scheme his way out of something instead of paying, and I didn't trust him to rent from me. I will of course not mention any of this person's identifying information, but I will say that its amazing what you can dig up on the interwebs.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:52 PM) That might have been pre 1998 and pre early 2000's. Two major bankruptcy reforms during that point in time have made it nearly impossible to walk away from student loan debt (Federally funded student loan debt). If you had private student loans, than that is a whole nother story. But if it was a loan from the government, it is impossible to get away from (excluding if you had a severe hardship due to a sever disability). Getting away from federally sponsored student loans might be one of the toughest things to ever get out from you. This was private at the time of default, but I am not sure if it started as government debt. And it was a few years ago, maybe early 2000's or so.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) Thats actually not true. Its nearly impossible to get away from student loan debt and filing bankruptcy, with a very very rare exception ( I can't speak to percentages, but I know of at least one person who did exactly this. Chapter 7, walked away from everything, student loans (which were carried by a bank), were charged off. Of course his credit is absolute garbage now, but, it definitely can be done.

QUOTE (ChrisLikesBaseball @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 12:04 PM) Delmon Young hits the DL for the Twins. Glad we get them a couple times at home next week, while they are still struggling and have some injuries.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 10:52 AM) Ok, shouldn't have used AT&T there. You're still focusing on this one particular contract and refusing to acknowledge the plethora of contracts that do have mandatory arbitration. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 10:57 AM) And the agreement still barred class action in any forum. You just aren't correct here. As is clearly stated in the decision, there is still a method for claims in the court system. You cannot, even in some huge end user agreement, completely block the ability to seek remedy in the civil courts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 11:22 AM) You don't default on student loans. You might try. You're not going to succeed. You do if you declare bankruptcy.

Well since we did poorly against a pitcher we should have shelled, and since the Sox offense will obviously need to break out sometime... I'm going with CC having this line: 6 IP, 10 H, 6 R

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 28, 2011 -> 07:47 AM) It looks to me like he isn't swinging full out right now. He really seems like he is trying to get his stroke back before he goes back into launch mode. I think that's spot-on, I think he wasn't physically ready to come back when he did, and he's still adjusting.

Last death toll number from storms in the south that I saw was 173. I can't remember a toll that high since that big OKC F5 a few years back. QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 04:31 PM) I dunno, I'm not sure I've ever lived anywhere that has had a tornado siren. Seriously? They are everywhere in the Chicago area, we certainly had them in Iowa, and we even had them in Memphis (only a surprise there because the city is just terrible with its infrastructure). Didn't have them in all areas in Colorado though, only some parts of the Denver Metro had them, other parts did not.

Seems to me that Dolsi is just filler. There are some starters at AA, A+ and A- who should be promoted for various reasons. Seems like they should clean out Charlotte of some of the garbage and promote some actual prospects. I think the fact that D Lucy is playing as much as he is is a bad sign, I wonder if they are starting to lose confidence in Flowers' ability to turn it around.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 04:05 PM) This glosses over the fact that it protects corporations who screw over thousands of people a little bit, say $30 each, because no one is going to file a suit over an individual claim of $30. By preventing class-action lawsuits, you're eliminating the ability of millions of people to get recompense for minor wrong-doings by corporations. Did you not read the part where this doesn't stop class action lawsuits? It adds a hurdle, yes, which in some ways may even be good for consumers because it should help root out some frivilous attempts and therefore keep costs down. But this ruling doesn't stop class action lawsuits as Balta claimed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 03:22 PM) Different topic. Well, slightly different, since hey, a 5-4 majority in the Court couldn't be changed by having a Democrat in the White House. Al Gore would have put Roberts and Alito in there, I'm sure. The Supreme Court today effectively has put an end, forever, to the use of class action lawsuits against corporations. Corporations now have the right to have you sign a waiver giving up your right to join in a class action lawsuit as a condition of doing business with them. If Sony, for example, had this provision in their unreadable 187 page user agreement, then you could not join a class action lawsuit against them for losing your credit card information. There's really no way this does anything but screw a whole helluva lot of people. There won't be a user agreement anywhere that doesn't have you give up that right within a year. QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) I should add too that the blogs reading of the arbitration clauses is wrong (mostly). Those arbitration clauses are non-binding arbitration. So yeah, technically you have to go through a process first, but if you're not happy with the result you can still file a suit. That was what I thought, more or less. You cannot legally bind someone from filing a civil claim in that broad a way, that contractualizes an assumption of liability beyond control of the liable party, which can't be done. It just adds an extra hurdle to prove lack of control.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 02:50 PM) Bambi? Ben Bernanke I think.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:49 PM) Then don't make it. That's what I am saying. I was agreeing with you.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) How about live up to your promises? It was a stupid promise to make.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 27, 2011 -> 06:59 AM) for as awful as the sox have played, and for as decently as the cubs are perceived to have been playing...they are only separated by .5 games Expectations.