#garfield Logs

Aug 04 2012

00:49 useless no
03:14 rue_mohr oh
03:14 rue_mohr whats wrong then?
11:00 useless Last week, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue revealed that it had accidentally made public 110,795 Social Security numbers and tax ID numbers of Wisconsin residents. The numbers were mistakenly embedded in a real estate report and posted to the department's website for almost three months
11:02 useless This is the fourth time since 2006 that Wisconsin state agencies have been involved in the public release of Social Security numbers. Three of those breaches involved the Revenue Department.
11:02 useless In 2006, a private contractor working for the department mailed 171,000 tax booklets with taxpayers' Social Security numbers printed right on the front.
11:04 useless the banks here 20 yrs ago sent snail mail with ssn on the envelope as part of the address, i blew a gasket, which was the start of then saying i was crazy for objecting to something that didn't bother anyone else
11:04 useless Apparently, the department still didn't learn its lesson. In January 2008, it mailed 5,000 tax forms with taxpayers' Social Security numbers clearly visible through the envelope windows.
11:04 useless That same month, the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services had a FUBAR of its own, when a private contractor mailed 260,000 booklets to Medicaid recipients in the statewith their Social Security numbers printed right on the front.
11:23 katsmeow-afk even tho they now know better, and no one is working at the same banks anymore, the banks have all bought and sold each other over the last 20 yrs, i'm sure it's documents somewhere that i blew a gasket for the "unreasonable" way they gave out everyone';s ssn
11:25 tsmeow-afk thinks all those people who want hair to grow on top of their heads should use all the hair *removal* methods that people say don't
11:29 katsmeow-afk "i tried this hair removal and the hair grew back faster and heavier than before!" <<== i call that a hint
12:00 katsmeow-afk 5,810,000 results for Traf-o-data
12:06 katsmeow-afk I think the problem with many, as with people in their early twenties generally, is that they've been trained their whole lives to jump through predefined hoops. They've spent 15-20 years solving problems other people have set for them.
12:06 katsmeow-afk And how much time deciding what problems would be good to solve? Two or three course projects? They're good at solving problems, but bad at choosing them.
12:06 katsmeow-afk But that, I'm convinced, is just the effect of training. Or more precisely, the effect of grading. To make grading efficient, everyone has to solve the same problem, and that means it has to be decided in advance.
12:06 katsmeow-afk It would be great if schools taught students how to choose problems as well as how to solve them, but I don't know how you'd run such a class in practice.
12:07 katsmeow-afk Do you suppose Google is only good because they had some business guy whispering in their ears what customers wanted? It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started.
12:08 katsmeow-afk The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out.
12:08 katsmeow-afk or as the ex-VP of the usa once said (and he got berated for saying it), we know what we know, but we don't know what we don't know we don't know, or something like that, but he did say it correctly
12:09 katsmeow-afk i'd been saying it for years, how an Ai is to know what it is it doesn't know, so it can form a plan to find out
12:10 katsmeow-afk And once you apply that kind of brain power to petty but profitable questions, you can create wealth very rapidly.
12:10 katsmeow-afk That's the essence of a startup: having brilliant people do work that's beneath them. Big companies try to hire the right person for the job. Startups win because they don't
12:10 katsmeow-afk they take people so smart that they would in a big company be doing "research," and set them to work instead on problems of the most immediate and mundane sort. Think Einstein designing refrigerators.
12:15 katsmeow-afk [6] Trevor Blackwell presents the following recipe for a startup: "Watch people who have money to spend, see what they're wasting their time on, cook up a solution, and try selling it to them. It's surprising how small a problem can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution." <<== i need a robot to climb trees with a chainsaw
12:17 katsmeow-afk i'm sorry, was that EXPEDITED snailmail or EXPLOITED snailmail?
12:24 katsmeow-afk i have trees i need down in small areas where the tree cannot be simply cut off at the base, ditto a guy down the street, ditto every road maintenance crew in the usa (they cannot drop the tree across the street, there's often powerlines involved) <<== i need a robot to climb trees with a chainsaw, but i am busy putting up dog fence and making a water system
12:25 katsmeow-afk renting a robot to them for $500 a pop beats them buying an extra tall $150,000 bucket truck
12:26 katsmeow-afk and they often drive the bucket into powerlinies
12:40 e_bed looks ar
12:40 katsmeow-afk :-/
12:41 katsmeow-afk [12:04] <katsmeow-afk> [6] Trevor Blackwell presents the following recipe for a startup: "Watch people who have money to spend, see what they're wasting their time on, cook up a solution, and try selling it to them. It's surprising how small a problem can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution." <<== i need a robot to climb trees with a chainsaw
12:41 katsmeow-afk [12:13] <katsmeow-afk> i have trees i need down in small areas where the tree cannot be simply cut off at the base, ditto a guy down the street, ditto every road maintenance crew in the usa (they cannot drop the tree across the street, there's often powerlines involved) <<== i need a robot to climb trees with a chainsaw, but i am busy putting up dog fence and making a water system
12:41 katsmeow-afk [12:14] <katsmeow-afk> renting a robot to them for $500 a pop beats them buying an extra tall $150,000 bucket truck
12:41 katsmeow-afk [12:14] <katsmeow-afk> and they often drive the bucket into powerlinies
12:41 rue_bed hmm chainsaw wielding robot
12:42 katsmeow-afk i saw a tall pine tree in Fla leaning over a powerline, the owner coldn't afford a tree crew to take it down because it was over a powerline, the power co couldn't do it because it was a private tree
12:42 rue_bed what trunk range
12:42 katsmeow-afk the roab maint couldn't do anything because it wasn't in the road (yet)
12:42 rue_bed size
12:42 katsmeow-afk i think a max dia of 2ft
12:42 rue_bed I kinda dont like machines that dice up trees
12:43 katsmeow-afk right, lets lett he tree fall on things and cost much much more
12:43 rue_bed people tend to set them loose in beutifull forrests
12:43 katsmeow-afk and with that ends a great idea
12:44 katsmeow-afk i'd set them loose on a forest fire that's crowned, which is essentially unfightable
12:44 rue_bed its a bit close to making an atom bomb to save time on wars
12:45 katsmeow-afk rather trim a tree branch than have it hit a powerline, good videos of that on youtube
12:45 rue_bed ah, then you dont mean to have it chop all the branches off as it goes up and cut the trunk every 4 feet on the way down
12:45 katsmeow-afk well, on the tree in Fla i mentioned, that would haveto be done, yeas
12:46 rue_bed someone would set it loose in a forrest for a greedy reason
12:46 katsmeow-afk someone already cuts forests down for greedy reasons
12:46 katsmeow-afk if i ownthe robot, they cannot use it
12:46 rue_bed but the robot would make it wasier for them
12:47 rue_bed if the robot is not commercially sold, then it could work, but, people would try to mimmic it
12:48 katsmeow-afk so i am a dumbass again
12:48 katsmeow-afk *I* still need a tree climber robot with a chainsaw, and i can make money off it
12:49 rue_bed no
12:49 katsmeow-afk what do you suppose the nighbor with rotts will do to me when that poplar tree falls across his powerline and truck and mobilehome?
12:50 rue_bed I wonder if you make a genetic copy of a creature if the colouring patterns on it come out the same
12:50 rue_bed katsmeow-afk, well I can only hope it dies in the process
12:50 rue_bed I think you have sufficient grounds to call it self defence
12:51 rue_bed how big is the poplar?
12:51 katsmeow-afk nope, anything he does will cost me money i don't have, ergo, i'll be in jail and he will have access to my place
12:51 katsmeow-afk 1.5ft dia at waist high
12:51 katsmeow-afk ~70ft tall
12:51 rue_bed thats a big one
12:52 rue_bed how could a person make a robot like that not work on evergreen trees
12:52 katsmeow-afk and it is on the property line and leaning over him
12:52 rue_bed some kinda basic design limitation
12:53 rue_bed biab, I have to wake up
12:53 katsmeow-afk i need it to go up, attach ropes, and cut the limbs, come down and get the ropes back from me, repeat at high speed till the top, then rope and cut the trunk down ,, the poplar will resprout and be a heavyassed bush next year
12:54 rue_bed so it needs to be a hook-legged catterpillar with a chainsaw at head and midselction
12:54 rue_bed atleast 4 grippers
12:55 katsmeow-afk i watched a video of a forest fire last nite, all the fire spread in the treetops, the forest floor didn't flame up till the burning limbs fromt he tree tops fell to the ground
17:38 anx slides in and out like a ninja on a double ninja
19:17 dumbass i now know why it takes so much out of me to swing my sledgehammer, and why doing so for so many years contributed to damage of my shoulders: it's a 16 lb hammer
19:37 atom1 how does that make you a dumbass ?
19:39 dumbass it might not, but thinking cutting off those two dead limbs over my driveway by use of a robot, that makes me a dumbass
19:39 dumbass of that 70ft completely dead oak leaning towards the house
19:59 rue_shop / Thermistor lookup table for RepRap Temperature Sensor Boards (http://reprap.org/wiki/Thermistor)
19:59 rue_shop / Made with the online thermistor table generator by nathan7 at http://calculator.josefprusa.cz/
19:59 rue_shop / r0: 234000
19:59 rue_shop / t0: 26
19:59 rue_shop / r1: 680
19:59 rue_shop / r2: 1600
19:59 rue_shop / beta: 4288
19:59 rue_shop / max adc: 305
19:59 rue_shop #define NUMTEMPS 19
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20:46 Tom_itx i thought you couldn't crash linux
20:47 Tom_itx froze glade up tighter than a drum
21:23 dumbass heck, the biggest reason i don't have an u nix boxes is it won't keep runing
21:44 mbass ponders "hise we t
21:44 dumbass hise, hice,, hoist,, something
21:45 dumbass heist
21:45 dumbass no wonder it makes no sense
22:15 Tom_itx 2 raindrops