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Interesting little bot as it looks to be so new that at present, there are no Google results for it. The IP addy is from AT&T WorldNet. I’m guessing email harvester as it came from a dial up addy and the bot crawled a large number of pages in a short amount of time.
I’m in the middle of a personal project using Windows Server 2003. The problem is that I have the lab machine I’m working on in a place that has no internet connectivity, so what I want to do is connect the lab machine to my PowerBook running Panther and use the oft talked about Internet Sharing feature.
After too much struggle cause I didn’t understand the System Preferences>Sharing>Internet window, I finally figured out that the “Share your connection from:” pulldown menu was supposed to indicate the PowerBook’s LAN connection. Whoops. I’m trying to share the PowerBook connection via Ethernet to the Windows 2003 box. In all actuality, the PowerBook is providing a NAT to the router supplied private IP address. Within this secondary NAT subnet, the IP addresses I’m dealing with are 192.168.2.1 (the PB) and 192.168.2.2 (the Win2003 box).
At this point, the Win2003 box can ping the Internet thru the PowerBook connection. However, I’m getting errors trying to use Internet Explorer. I tried setting the 192.169.2.1 address as a gateway for the Windows 2003 box, but no dice.
I’ve been chatting with folks this morning who noticed big sites like Google and Apple were hard to reach. As suspected, Akamai, the company which provides DNS and Web caching services to large Web sites, is apparently experiencing some serious DNS problems.
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Here I present to you the parabolic mesh Wifi antenna aka wok skimmer from New Zealand. Instructions here.
CNN: Microsoft moving beyond One-Price-Fits-All Strategy in emerging markets.
It’s clear the rise of piracy in Southeast Asia and the low cost of open source alternatives are spurring Microsoft’s new approach.
The company said the initiative was geared mostly for developing countries, and that it was meant to fend off advances by Linux. But Linux poses little immediate threat to Windows on consumer desktops.
Even when Thailand was rolling out its cheap Linux PCs last year, officials assumed that a substantial number of them would be reconfigured with pirated copies of Windows.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a multi-industry lobbying group, estimates 72 percent of the business software used in Thailand last year was pirated. For Malaysia, the figures were 68 percent, while Vietnam tied with Russia as the world’s worst, at 93 percent.
Bonus (not work safe url name) Microsuck: Microsoft’s Really Hidden Files written mainly for Windows 95/98/ME.
Have you even been traveling, arriving at a hotel you have reservations with way past midnight only to be told that your “guaranteed room” is not available? Now add a surly Front Desk guy, and you’ve got the setting for this circa 2001 PowerPoint presentation.
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The company is running on a skeleton crew today, so someone downstairs arranged for us to go over to K1Speed for a lunchtime kart race. Actually, there were enough of us that we all couldn't race at once, so we ended up split among three different races.
The races were "best single lap time" events rather than position events, so we were able to compare times across races. I was in the second of three races and put up a best lap time of 23.76 seconds; this was good for 2nd in my race, but number 1 and numbers 3 & 4 were non-Zetera people. The closest company competitor in my race had a lap time of 25.44 seconds.
I wasn't the company champion, however, as someone posted a 23.44 second lap in the first race. The third race posted some of the slowest times, but then another co-worker actually crashed out of that race as well - he crashed into the safety barrier and ended up having part of it land on his hand.
A few people had asked me before the race if I was going to end up being a "ringer" in it as well. I've been getting a bit of that since winning the poker tournament, so I'm glad that someone else edged me out for fastest time.
It's those little moments of Zen at the workplace that keep all of us from going mental on the daily grind. I'm glad you had fun.
Yes, the one in Irvine is where we went; it's just one block down from where I work as well!

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I wrote a pretty simple Perl script which outputs a list of open user sessions in an Ingres installation (remote or local). This information can also be retrieved using Ingres utilities iinamu and iimonitor, but not in a very straigth-forward fashion. The script is also a decent example how to access an Ingres database using Perl scripting language and Database Interface (DBI).
The script uses DBD-Ingres driver to access the imadb database, which is part of the Ingres Management Architecture (IMA). The script retrieves the necessary data from the imadb and then prints it. A short, concise list of open sessions is printed first with a more verbose listing (“iimonitor show user sessions formatted” alike) following.
The version 1.0 of the script is available at http://pauli.borodulin.fi/misc/ingres/ima_sessions-v1.0.pl. The requirements for running the script are listed in the beginning of the script.


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Discussion in 'MacBook Pro' started by thasan, Aug 10, 2017.
I have tried to look in to various forums and talked to genius in shops as well as had online chat with Apple people but couldn't seem to get a reliable answer. Hence my post.
I have a 2011 MBP that I am planning to replace with a touch bar 13 inch maxed out MBP.
I have been using an external display from iiyama prolite XB2779QS-1.
When I buy the new MBP, I want to have dual external displays (extended, not mirrored).
I understand that the best way is to get two USB C/Thunderbolt 3 displays, daisy chained. But this means by Iiyama display can't be used.
I was looking at various expensive docks last night and it seems some docks do support a variety of displays through a single USB C out. For example, the Kensington SD5000T. My questions is it really possible to connect any display using docks like these? If yes, which ones are most reliable and cheapest?
I don't want to get 4k or 5k externals. Just the current iiyama one and maybe another Standard 1920 res display.
Mac OS does not support daisy-chained MST displays. The hardware is there, but the software just does not support it. You cannot daisy chain them, but you can still connect two displays to the one dock.
Many docks (such as Caldigit and Elgato) support one display via their DisplayPort output, and another through the second Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) port. This second display can be either a Thunderbolt 3 display, or connected with a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.
Any dock that advertises dual display support should in theory be able to do it this way.
I thought most of these docks only had one Thunderbolt 3 in/ If that's the case, could you run dual display through the dock? I thought you could only run through the dock and the other would have to run through another thunderbolt 3 port on the MBP. I am interested in this myself. The only other solution I have seen is the henge dock because it has two USB-C inputs.
@benboy12 read the link to the Elgato dock in my post.
Most Thunderbolt 3 docks have two TB3 ports. One for input, one for output.
Thunderbolt 3 can output two separate DisplayPort streams from one port. You can either plug two 4K SST displays into a dock, thus each display gets one DisplayPort stream, or you can plug in a single 5K display (which requires MST, thus both DisplayPort streams are taken).
I am in a similar situation to you - just got a TB MBP 13" (have it connected to a 43" 4K single external display though) and I got the Caldigit TB3 dock. It was quite expensive, but I am impressed with how well it works. It drives my 4K display at 60Hz over USB-C to HDMI and would have no problem driving another monitor through the DisplayPort connection. Think any of the well-reviewed, reliable docks should work well for you.
Oh, Thats really great to hear! Do you mean this?
For these docs, can you run two normal (say HDMI or VGA) displays if you use the appropriate USB C to HDMI adaptors?
That is the one. To answer your question: sort of. It has one Thunderbolt 3 output, which you can get an adapter to go to HDMI or Displayport or whatever, and in addition to that, one dedicated Displayport, which you could hypothetically also use a dongle on to get your preferred connection.
So (1) USB-C to HDMI and (2) Displayport to anything would drive 2 monitors @ up to 4K / 60Hz.


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3. Have a healthy nutritional breakfast. Avoid coffee as a stimulant. If you have had 6-8 hours sleep and started your day with exercise, a stimulant shouldn’t be necessary first thing in the morning. If you feel it is, perhaps detox and go through the pain of withdrawals. You will be amazed at the energy you have without caffeine in your body!
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Gladiators of the Cage 21 goes down tonight from Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the main event Joey Holt takes on Mike Pope for the Lightweight Title but fans in the “Great Fight North” will likely be more interested in the handful of Canadians on the card.
In the co-main event Adam Hunter picked up his biggest win to date when he knocked out UFC Veteran Chris Dempsey via Head Kick in just 40 seconds. Unfortunately the other Canadians on the card did not fare as well as Adrian Vilaca was submitted late in the second round by Khama Worthy and Fred Stonehouse had to be stretchered out of the cage following a vicious knockout loss to Devonte Smith.


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i did this vacation twice, once pregnant with claire and once with emma. you're exactly right. it is a vacation. we didn't DO anything except drive and look. we did go into san francisco and i found it not hurried or city-like. we walked the pier and drove the streets. everything there was so beautiful. i loved carmel by the sea and that's where we stayed. i wish i'd found that beach you did. it looks fabulous. it was shocking to me how cold it is there. i can't imagine anyone ever enjoying the water on the beach. it's always windy and freezing.
I love Carmel - I spent a day hiking the trails near there with my uncle back in the mid-90s. The scenery was stunning.
I'm heartsick over these pictures. We lived there and MOVED TO KANSAS. Right at this moment I can't remember why.
So glad you had a great time. Did you drive down far enough to see Hurst Castle or the Elephant Seals?
So glad you guys had a great vacation and celebration of your 20th anniversary! The pictures are beautiful.
Your trip looks amazing! I am so happy you got to go and enjoy yourselves in that beautiful place for a few days. It is exactly the kind of vacation I would choose. My hubby has very different taste:) But we agree on one thing-it's not a vacation unless you can relax, and that is so hard to accomplish on most of the trips we take.
In-n-out is on my list of restaurants to try. Adrion has about 20 t-shirts from there and loves it.
That looks like such a WONDERFUL "vacation"! California is so unique. I love it, too!
Speaking of funny animal stories, we were in Telluride one summer in a restaurant and a dog came walking by with a cat on it's back and a mouse on the cat's back! I'm soooo serious!! Isn't that crazy???
Have a great week, Meredith!
Ahhhh, I LOVE that portion of our great state. While I missed seeing you, we just can't show you anything like that here in SoCal.
Glad you had a great vacation, that you enjoyed your company, and that you shared it with us. Wonderful!
Absolutely GORGEOUS pictures. Glad you had a great vacation. Well deserved!!
The Inn where you stayed looks so cute and perfect.
What a beautiful trip for two special people. I can't believe it's been 20 years! I remember your wedding day. We were spending the night at Sara Dudley's house and we all overslept and missed your wedding. And here you are 20 years later! I hope one day we can visit that beautiful part of Wayne's home state.
Even though I have family ties in CA, i've never done Big Sur or Carmel.
What a spell, indeed. I feel relaxed, just reading about your vacay.
Hey, they have In & Outs all over the west - we used to eat there in junior high in Las Vegas all the time. SO GOOD.
I love to look at what others say in guest books too! It like PERMISSION to read someone's diary!
I have never eaten and an In n Out...but i think I need to try it.
I totally get your distinction between "trip" and "vacation." Because we live so far from family, all of our travels are spent driving long distances to see our loved ones!
Breathtaking scenery. I've not been to Big Sur, but I have been to SC and Carmel. So glad you had a wonderful time together!
And Il Vicino . . . yum!
Your vacation looks HEAVENLY! Seriously need to get ourselves down there.
Glad you had a great vacation. Well deserved!!
You had commented on my blog regarding the Foamerater! :-) I commented back on my blog, but wasn't sure if you'd see it, so I came to your blog, and enjoyed the pictures of Big Sur! I live in Santa Cruz (Scotts Valley), but grew up in Boulder, CO. And when you commented on my blog, I recognized your name from Angie's blog (Flibbertigibberish). She and I are great friends (in person). How did you guys connect? Anyways, thanks for your comment, I hope you get to try the foamerators, they were fun. :-) Happy Summer!!
That's definitely my kind of vacation. I'm a beach kind of girl for sure. BEAUTIFUL pictures. And In-N-Out is one of my very favorite places to eat in the whole world!!

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Citi Bike (stations) come to Brooklyn!
On Saturday, Transportation Alternative’s Paul Steely White nearly broke the Internet when he posted the first picture of a Citi Bike station on a New York City street. Before this weekend the only other sightings were confined to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where a small test program was being conducted, and many people, myself included, were more than relieved to see Paul’s picture of a station on Monroe Street and Classon Ave in Bed-Stuy. Citi Bike is finally on its way.
As you can see, there’s a very prominent sign on the docking station’s kiosk displaying the station’s street and neighborhood location, printed in a font that should be familiar to any regular mass transit user. Functioning largely as a wayfinding map, this side of the kiosk has a small CitiBank logo, and the impression I got when I rode up on the station was that it fit into the overall feel of a typical New York City street environment, even a residential one.
This is the station’s solar pole, allowing the docking station to exist off-the-grid.
Above, a close-up view of the wayfinding map. One nice thing about these is that the maps are oriented in the direction one faces while reading it, rather than in a typical fashion with north at the top. You can more or less crane your head around the station and see Franklin Ave at the end of the block or turn around and see Classon Ave directly behind you, just as it is on the map. Think of a tourist who has to read a map upside down as he’s walking south in Manhattan and you’ll know how helpful this kind of layout can be for the geographically challenged.
This particular station has 19 docks and is located in the parking lane of the street. (The bikes are coming soon, presumably after a much larger number of stations are in place closer to the launch date in May.) For now, traffic barrels and yellow tape block off the area around the station to discourage motorists from parking next to the empty docks.
The prices and fees are no surprise, but seeing them listed on the street really reinforces the idea that Citi Bike won’t compete with longer tourist rentals; a ride of just over one hour would cost $22.95 $26.95. All the other policies are clearly laid out, and while I’m sure we’ll read a few stories in the Post — or Gothamist! — about some poor sap who mistakenly took out a Citi Bike out for a five-hour leisure ride from the Battery to the Little Red Lighthouse with a picnic in between, that rider won’t be able to say he wasn’t warned. And don’t leave the bike leaning against a street sign while you run in to a bodega to grab a bottle of water. While theft hasn’t been an issue with other bicycle sharing systems, you’ll be out “up to $1000 plus administrative fees” if the bike is stolen.
The rules of the road are spelled out very clearly on the kiosk. If you think about it, this will arguably be the best and most direct communication about street etiquette to people on bikes in years. I’m of the opinion that courtesy to others trumps fidelity to the law, so it’s especially nice to see that “Yield to pedestrians” is the first idea on the list. The last one, “Ride with traffic,” strikes me as leaving a bit to be desired, since it could be interpreted by some to mean, “Don’t ride on the sidewalk or on pedestrian pathways, ride where all the cars are instead.” Perhaps “Ride in the same direction of traffic” was too cumbersome, but don’t expect this last rule to stop salmon any time soon.
Users are told that “Helmets are encouraged,” and instructed to visit nearby bike shops. Considering how industrious New Yorkers can be, however, I’m guessing it won’t be long before the same guys who pop up with umbrellas every time there’s the threat of rain set up helmet concessions near Citi Bike stations in popular tourist areas as well.
MasterCard is the “Preferred Payment Sponsor” of CitiBike, so there’s PayPass branding under the keypad.
The station attracted a fair amount of curiosity while I was there on Sunday and I wasn’t the only one out snapping pictures. The young girl above was having a great time using the docks as a curbside playground. Isn’t it amazing how a bike share station can make people engage with the street in a different way than a parked car?
A close-up of a dock. Bikes have a triangular locking mechanism on the front which fits into the dock.
Here’s a view of the station on the curbside. The gap between the station and the curb might be problematic as it could collect trash. I know Capital Bike Share and Hubway are meticulous when it comes to upkeep, but expect Citi Bike crews to be busy depending on how and where stations are placed.
I happened upon another station at Fulton Street and Grand Avenue. This one is located on the sidewalk and has 31 docks. It’s also perfectly placed right next to a bus stop. Hop off of a bus, grab a bike, go home. Or drop off a bike, get on a bus, and go to work. Either way, it’s a perfect illustration of how bike share complements an existing transit system.
“Soon a lot more people will have a key to the city,” written against the silhouette of a bicycle wheel, seems like an acknowledgment to something regular users of bicycles already know. It’s also a sign that Citi Bike’s marketing will tend toward the positive, which is always a good idea.
Just like at Classon and Monroe, curious passers-by take in the new street furniture.
More and more stations will be added as we near Citi Bike’s May launch and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out when the switch if flipped on the whole system, especially when stations are placed in more prominent or iconic New York locations. For now we’ll just have to revel in the excitement that has already greeted these first stations’ appearance in Brooklyn.
Excellent write-up! Reading this makes me excited to Citi Bike all around NYC during my next trip. After seeing how amazing Velib is in Paris, I’m super optimistic about the positive changes bike share will bring to New York and Chicago (which is supposed to be up and running by late spring).
Dottie, I hope you will venture out of the relatively small footprint of the Citi Bike area during your trip; “all around” is kind of an exaggeration. I hope the program is successful and can be expanded throughout the five boroughs.
Thanks, Dottie! When you visit please let me know. Happy to show you around!
Dear God. Are these atrocities permanent? They set up comes right outside my apt last night (with a Tuesday tow away sign – posted Monday at 730pm, classy). Apparently it will be a 23 bike station, which takes up how many already sought after parking spots!? I’ve been biking in NYC for years, but find this idea altogether stupid.
You’re kidding, right? Anyone with concerns about the environment, obesity, noise and traffic will welcome Bike Share to NY. Programs like these have totally transformed DC, Montreal and countless other cities already – encouraging bike use in a way no other program can (including bike lanes). The more bikes we see, the more comfortable people will be riding their own bikes around town. This is a HUGE leap forward for our great city. The racks look better with bikes in them, so stand by and get ready for big positive changes to finally come to NYC.
I think you must be joking! So you are going to have access to bikes for YOU and your friends directly in front of your place and you are mad? What am I missing here?
– So 23 bikes (vehicles) can fit in the space typically occupied by 3 cars (vehicles). Sounds like a good trade-off to me.
– No one, cyclist or otherwise, will be forced to join or love bike share. There are a lot of things I find “stupid” about NYC, but these things tend not to agitate me all that much because, hey, that’s life in the big city.
– Only one day’s notice to move your car seems unfair. On that we agree.
For the record, I’m not joking. I do have legitimate concerns about the environment, obesity, noise and traffic – but I hardly find shelling out stations of overpriced bicycle rentals throughout the city a realistic solution. They are too expensive and the time limit is too short to actually make a noticable difference. I live in Fort Greene, and personally doubt any of my neighbors in the housing projects will use these (despite the discount). Nor any of the parents with young children. Tourists dont really come as north as I live either, as it’s mainly residential and far enough from the subway to not really have a reason to. Those of us in this neighborhood who think biking is a good idea – have bikes, and ride them already. We are the ones going over the bridges to get to work on a regular basis. Not taking a 30 minute ride to check out the Navy Yard. More people owning and using bicycles is what will really change things.
I agree that the overall idea is great, and may help the city somewhat. However I fear these bicycles will mostly be used by tourists and/or people who dont know nor follow bicycle laws, which will cause more trouble than good.
And if 23 bikes = only 3 car spaces, then I’ll cool down. Currently they have significantly more (10 on each side of the street) coned off with “no parking” signs.
My main gripe is simply the location. I often work late hours. I have a car. I also have a newborn daughter. Taking away already hard to get parking spaces (that happen to be directly in front of my apartment) will only make my Thursday nights more difficult to find a spot, which will result in me and my wife needing to walk much farther to get to whatever parking spot I find in order, for example, for my recovering wife to take my daughter to a doctors appointment. This does not make for a happy daddy.
On a lighter note – no cars have been towed yet, and there are still a handful parked in the “no parking” area. We’ll see how long they last.
Further to the above – we have a 10-12 ft wide sidewalk directly adjacent to the proposed parking lane location of the bicycle rack. Why note put it on the sidewalk!?
And they are outside on a flat bed truck. 23 bike racks = many more than 3 parking spaces, FYI.
Lucas, my bet is that DOT needs to block off more parking to set up the stations than they will need once the stations are operational. They have to be able to put the stations in place and access them without damaging people’s cars.
My heart doesn’t exactly bleed for you, and the loss of your precious parking spot. I can’t afford a car. Many, many parents, dare I say most, in the city don’t own a car, and seem to get by. And if you’re parking in the street, the city is subsidizing storage for your luxury (and in so many other ways). So yeah, I think 23 bike stations vs. three parking spaces is a value proposition. And apparently you’re willing to inconvenience a host of pedestrians on the sidewalk, and force them to cross paths with the bike users, rather than three drivers?
Lucas, I have a three-year-old daughter and a newborn son. I wouldn’t want to dismiss another person’s specific concerns or needs, but I am able to cope without a car. When I’ve had to rent one – such as when I brought my son home from the hospital – it didn’t seem like a big deal to park somewhere other than right in front of my building.
Rather than getting upset at bicycles, I always wonder why the drivers who truly depend on their cars don’t get upset at other drivers for taking valuable parking. Many people store their cars on the street for days or weeks on ends, depending on ASP schedules, and seem to only move them for recreational or discretionary trips. Imagine how many people would give up their cars if the cost of parking a vehicle they use only on weekends wasn’t free!
And to challenge you just a little bit more — and seriously, I do appreciate you engaging here — I’m not sure we should design our roadways and give away precious NYC real estate just to make one person’s Thursday nights a little easier. In a city as big as New York there’s absolutely no way to accommodate every driver’s specific needs.
Let’s be clear, I’m not actually upset about the bicycles. As stated before, in theory I think they’re a great idea. I’m more irked by the overall inconsiderateness of the whole process. 1. That they put up towing signs less than 24 hours before the cars were supposed to move. Yes cars were ticketed and towed. I fall into the category of someone who parks their car and doesnt return to it for a few days. If it’s in a location I dont pass when coming home, I would never know. That’s $300 of inconsiderateness per car towed to start with. 2. That bike rack locations must engulf automobile parking locations. Yes this city is compact, but there are plenty of locations in this neighborhood, our extra wide sidewalk included, that these could have been alternatively located. Yes having a car in this city is a luxury (Wil, my mom gave me her used car when she got a new one so that we could have wheels for when the baby came), but I do not understand why it has to be an either-or instead of a both-and.
Brooklyn, I get equally upset at the number of motorists when I come home at 1am and spend an hour looking for a parking spot, sometimes a 30 minute walk away. Adding bicycle racks is not going to solve the number of cars on the street however. And I’m not advocating for the city meeting my each and every need. I’m just upset because this seems like a poorly designed “solution” to a cool idea with not much space.
Again, I’m skeptical to how successful this will be anyway, specifically in my neighborhood, in this location. If the goal is seriously to help the environment, obesity, noise, and traffic, why not purchase bicycles and safe storage locations for anyone who takes a bike safety course, instead of dumping a bunch of money into space hogging bike racks that may or may not successfully be rented.
In any case, they’re nearly installed now, so what’s the point of discussing further? It looks like (due to the poor “parking” of these racks) they’ll end up eating a total of 6 car parking spaces. Lovely.
Lucas, sorry to hear about your travails with a car and kids- I feel that pain having lived in B’stone Bklyn for 30 years- parking was always a chore and it hasn’t gotten better only progressively more difficult. It was 2 years ago we bit the bullet and took an indoor lot. I love bikes, I love cars, I love mass transit- and we have one of the lowest carbon footprints of all the cities with subways because of the mass transit, not in spite of it… that’s one of the great things about this city. as for the bikes 45 minutes is sinfully stupid- nothing in this city takes 45 minutes- what happened to the hour? Inflation? I hope that gets rescinded and fast.
Taxpayers are NOT paying for the system, Citi is… For this they get logos. Would you be happier if they were MetLife Bikes? Also, last I checked we actually made money off the bank bailout.
Why would stations “outside housing projects” be more likely to get “totally trashed” than anywhere else? Please keep the comments civil. Thanks.
Great coverage! But how do you count “a ride of just over one hour would cost $22.95”?
im with bmdesignhki: not sure where the 22.95 comes from…? and what are the annual fees?
– $9.95 for the 24-hour pass.
– That pass entitles you to take unlimited 30-minute rides in a 24-hour period without incurring additional fees. So if you take, say, 10 rides throughout the day of no more than 30 minutes each, you’d pay nothing other than that first $9.95. Just return each bike to a docking station before your 30 minutes are up and you’re good.
– If you happened to ride one bike for between 30 minutes and one hour straight — that is, never stopping or re-docking the bike at another station — you’d incur your first “overtime fee of $4.00.
– If you kept riding that same bike, another fee would kick in after you hit one hour. That fee is $13.00.
$9.95 pass + $4 overtime fee + $13 fee = $26.95.
You can see how that kind of quickly escalating price might encourage leisure riders to go to a bike rental shop instead. Citi Bike will be great for A-to-B journeys, in the same way one might use a taxi for a quick cross-town trip but not for a longer scenic drive.
There are ways to avoid the fees, of course. Boston’s Hubway has a 30 minute limit but I used it for a trip that I knew would take about 45 minutes. I picked up a bike, rode toward where I needed to go for about 25 minutes, docked the bike and then grabbed another bike for the remaining 20 minutes. Two trips, both under 30 minutes, and no additional fees beyond the day pass cost.
An annual membership is $95 and comes with unlimited 45-minute trips, instead of the 30 allotted to 24-hour and 7-day passes. Overtime fees are also slightly different.
Hope that helps answer the questions!
I can’t wait for the bikes to come. This is going to be great! Anything that encourages cycling and discourages cars is good. Cars get subsidised parking in one the most expensive cities in the world so replacing 3 cars with 23 bikes makes a lot of sense. NYC can not take any more cars. We need more transit and biking; that is the only way people will be able to get around. Cars get lots of road space on the street that people and bikes should get. Cars cause pollution, noise pollution, traffic, and in general make the city less livable. GO BIKES!!!!
Bike share + lanes has transformed Boston. I counted 42 bikes in 8 minutes crossing the Charles River (Cambridge to Boston) on Mass. Ave. during rush hour a few weeks ago. 7 were hubway bikes. That’s a rate of 315 an hour. On an unlovely early spring morning: 49 degrees & cloudy & windy. I have my own bike, but when I worked in town last year, I used the hubway bikes for short jaunts quite regularly when I’d taken public transportation instead of biking in from the ‘burbs. Don’t listen to the naysayers. Bike share is a big, big win. Soon, the only complaints will be about bikes and stations not meeting demand.
Thanks, Steve! I’ve used Hubway a few times – actually enough to make a membership worth it for me – and agree with you 100%. It took me to places I never would have gone before, and I say that as a former Bostonian! It’s good for the city and good for business.

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Researchers from the Dominican Republic have successfully completed the first phase of a research project to determine the population status of the American eel.
The study was held on the Atlantic Coast of the Dominican Republic during the capture of live fry in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.
Victorino Rodriguez Castillo, an aquaculture expert and professor of researcher at the ISA University of Santiago, lead the research project supported by researchers and specialists of the Dominican Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Research (IDIAF), Council Dominican Fisheries and Aquaculture (Codopesca) and ISA University, La Herradura in Santiago.
As noted by Mr Rodriguez, eels are in decline due to over historical exploitation of this resource in America, Europe and Asia.
The high complexity of the life cycle of the American eel contributes to the difficulty to determine the population status of this species. The American eel has been little studied. The historical data are scarce for most areas of the Atlantic, and there is no such information for South Carolina.
In the long term, data collected in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, indicate a decrease in the recruitment of young and adult populations (ASMFC 2000).
Furthermore, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, from the 1960s the species has decreased its population due to changes in the environment by pollution and construction of dams in riverbeds.
On the Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic, the American eel has a low population density.
In the first phase of the research project, the current situation of American eel in the estuaries of the rivers of the Atlantic Coast of the Dominican Republic, and the effect of salinity and population density on adaptation, were evaluated.
Based on the results of the evaluation of the population status of the American eel, scientists concluded that the capture of live fry was higher in the period 2013-2014 than in 2012-2013. The index of catch per unit effort of live eel fry was higher in the period 2013-2014 than in 2012-2013.
Bajabonico river had the biggest catch with 1,110,000 fry, Yásica had 720,000 fingerlings, Yaque del Norte had a catch of 282,000 fry and 360,000 fingerlings were caught in the Yabón. December and January were the months of greatest capture of live eel fry.
The aquaculture treatment of eels with the lowest mortality rate was recorded at an eel population density of 50 per 12 litres of water and a period of decreased level of salinity of 20 days, which obtained a mortality rate of 16 per cent.
As for the weight gain of juvenile anguilla over a period of 30 days, the treatment with greater weight gain was 50 elvers per 12 litres of water and a period of decreased salinity levels of 30 days), with an average weight gain of 0.5125 g for this treatment.
Regarding the length gain of eel fry over a period of 30 days, the treatment with the highest gain in length was an eel population density of 40 per 12 litres of water and a period of decreased salinity levels of 30 days, with an average length gain of 0.2108 cm.
According to the Mr Rodriguez, this research project was initiated in 2012 and is due to be completed in 2017. He noted that in the second phase of the project for the period 2015-2017, the bycatch of American eel is due to be evaluated and behaviour in captivity of this fish species is of great importance in the Dominican Republic.
The results of the study will act as technological guidelines, and to shape further research into the possible management and commercial farming of this species in the Dominican Republic.

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This is a side story in the Kara no Kyoukai series that follows Ryougi Shiki as she battles against the Bomberman, a terrorist who can see the future. As usual with a Kara no Kyoukai movie, the fighting is restricted to a small portion of the movie. Unfortunately, the battle in this movie is practically non-existent, so expect just a lot of talking from this. Honestly, I thought the most intense scene in the movie was when they showed the scene of the Bomberman throwing a soda can through a crowd into the trash.
In addition to the story with Shiki and the Bomberman, there are interlaced scenes with Kokutou Mikiya as he talks with Seo Shizune, a girl who can also see the future. These scenes seemed just like extra and didn't really seem to add all that much to the movie. If anything, they just demonstrated a different type of future-sight, but I saw little reason for her existence.
That being said, I was really intrigued by the discussion of future-sight in this movie. It introduces the idea of two different types of future-sight, both of which actually sound very down-to-earth and less supernatural. The first type is prediction, which is essentially seeing a future based on subconscious input from your surroundings. The second type is premonition, which is basically seeing a future and then carrying it out with your own actions. They were very interesting concepts in an otherwise slow movie. These actually play a large role in the battle against the Bomberman.
And then, of course, there's Mana, but I won't dwell too much on her. She's basically just fan service. Music of the show was great as I would expect. There's also a pretty interesting scene at the very end of the movie which I could only interpret as a flashback of the second Shiki (the one who disappeared) talking to a fortuneteller who predicts her death. Compared to other movies in the Kara no Kyoukai franchise, I'd say this movie was probably about average...maybe a bit better if you find future-sight as interesting as I do.
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I hate that we won't see anymore of this series, but Id say this one was a bit below average. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't nearly as interesting as some of the other movies.
I did find the future sight concepts interesting, but ultimately the theories behind the concept to be very weak.
Prediction makes sense as an option but premonition/fixation does not to me. The latter is basically the equivalent of being insane or fanatical rather than a supernatural ability.


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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite for the U. S. Navy launched from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:18 a.m. EDT today. The MUOS-4 spacecraft will bring advanced, new, global communications capabilities to mobile military forces, as well as ensure continued mission capability of the existing Ultra High Frequency satellite communications system. This is ULA’s eighth launch in 2015, the second MUOS satellite launched in 2015 and ULA’s 99th successful launch since the company was formed in December 2006.
This mission was launched aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 551 configuration vehicle, which includes a 5-meter diameter payload fairing along with five Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket motors attached to the Atlas booster. The Atlas booster for this mission was powered by the RD AMROSS RD-180 engine and the Centaur upper stage was powered by the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 engine.
The U.S. Navy’s MUOS is a next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system designed using a combination of orbiting satellites and relay ground stations to significantly improve communications for U.S. forces on the move. MUOS will provide new beyond-line-of-sight communications capabilities, with smartphone-like simultaneous voice, video and data – to connect military users almost anywhere around the globe.
ULA’s next launch is the Atlas V Morelos-3, communications satellite for Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services and Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, a government agency of Mexico, scheduled for Oct. 2 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

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I've recently noticed that I see a lot of "Crosses" in manga and anime. I thought it was just because Japan has a lot of Christians as I remember my history teacher telling me how Japanese people once really liked the Bible when Europeans came to explore, until the Shogun or someone of great power closed the gates of Japan and essentially isolated Japan from the outside world.
Some of the more popular characters that I currently remember are Asuna Yuuki (SAO) in the real world when meeting Kirito and Dracule Hawkeye (One Piece).
After further investigation, I realized Japan was only 1 percent Christian.
Is there another meaning to the Cross in Japan?
So it may not be that the cross means something different in Japan (most weddings take place in a Christian church, I believe), but that because it has an air of the exotic or mysterious.
It's not that commom the crosses, I think it's just a coincidence because the genre of anime you like. One Piece has a lot of cultures involved, so it's not that surprising to have some crosses, or a Bible like Bartholomew Kuma, and in the case of Mihawk it's more a reference to vapires. Asuna was part of a guild that have a holy symbol, the cross that she have remember the guild's symbol, crosses like that it's commom in medieval themes and in RPG games, like Sword Art Online. Most of medieval animes or animes that have magic use the western culture, so a lot of crosses and "sisters" appear. And I think is not because of the crosses, just the western culture it's more popular in this genre of anime and has more variety of things.
Hideaki Anno is notorious for stating the crosses in Evangeline are pointless. Well I personally believe that EVA is trying to use existing themes to get its point across, the show is also filled with Buddhism references. For instance when Shinji is running away he is sitting under a statue of Hariti Goddess/Demon for protection of children.
The main use of crosses in EVA is simply that it looks cool and to a mainly atheist country with a history of Buddhism; it looks interesting and stands out.
I do believe that since the USA has a history with Christianity we are all guilty of putting emphasis on certain symbols. Its similar to how most Americans perceive the majority of anime characters as being white.
Why are school swimsuits with name tags such a popular item in otaku subculture?


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The San Francisco 49ers have a chance to bring up another young talent from the practice squad. The team will be placing Dekoda Watson on injured reserve due to a calf injury, and head coach Kyle Shanahan thinks they will promote Pita Taumoepenu from the practice squad in his place. The team is working out some other options, but Taumoepenu likely has the edge.
Watson played SAM linebacker and special teams last season, but this year since coming off season-opening IR has focused on edge rusher and special teams. Specifically, he has been a rotational option at REO.
Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh has said in the past that Pita is viewed as a SAM option as opposed to edge rusher. Mark Nzeocha handles SAM work right now, but I would hope Pita would get a chance to give the coaching staff an in-game glimpse heading into the offseason.
He got limited work in the preseason prior to the finale game, but showed out solidly. It’s taken him time to show himself in practice the first three months, so I suppose we’ll find out quickly just how much he has shown the coaching staff. My guess is he primarily plays special teams for the time-being, but maybe he gets some defensive work as well.


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Third-party Android lock screens are always at a disadvantage compared to the stock option when you care about security. Some of them do have neat features if all you really want is a quick way to see and access information without unlocking the device. Microsoft Next has some cool stuff going on, and it's getting an update today billed as the biggest it's ever had.
Here's what's coming in this apparently huge update.
Using a third-party lock screen like Next requires that you turn off the system lock screen, unless you want to unlock twice. Adding fingerprint support and a smart lock equivalent at least makes Next a bit more like the stock experience. Smart Contacts could be a time saver too, assuming it learns the right ones.
The update appears to still be live in the Play Store, but it's also on APK Mirror if you prefer to grab it there.


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text: The Jewish History Museum, formerly known as the Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest, is a museum housed in a historic synagogue building in Tucson, Arizona. The museum’s building, which housed the first synagogue in the Arizona Territory, is the oldest synagogue building in the state. The building operated as a synagogue until 2008 when it was designated a museum. The Holocaust History Center at the Jewish History Museum is an educational institute dedicated to an ongoing examination of the Holocaust through the experiences of individuals who survived the war and later lived in southern Arizona. Two of our residents are recognized in the exhibit, Mike Bokor a survivor and Toetie Oberman whose family helped families survive the atrocities of the holocaust. We had the privilege of a private docent tour last week.


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A lasting way to provide for the protection of Minnesota’s extraordinary natural beauty is to include the Minnesota Land Trust in your estate plans.
The Minnesota Land Trust received its first bequest from the estate of Michael Meunier, whose passion for the outdoors was cut short when he died in 1997 at the age of 47. We launched the Land Trust Legacy Society in his memory and as a celebration of his love for Minnesota’s beautiful lands. Please join others who have demonstrated their commitment to Minnesota’s future and become a member of the Land Trust Legacy Society.
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From remote-monitoring systems to on-site robots, new technologies are benefiting care home residents, staff and operators alike. The speed of change and the future potential for tech to make an even greater difference are generating opportunities for investors and startups alike.
Technology is transforming care for older people. A 2016 report on care homes in the UK found that the daily physiological monitoring of residents, assisted by telehealth, resulted in an overall efficiency gain of more than +£33,400 a year for the nursing home studied. This level of financial benefit gives care home managers the ability to invest elsewhere, to redirect staff time, or to reduce charges to residents. In short, simple preventative tech can deliver real value.
Many of the new ‘technology-enabled care services’, or TECS, can be used in private home or care home settings. They include telehealth (remote monitoring and management of physiological conditions), telecare (remote monitoring of alarms and alerts), telemedicine (remote diagnosis, analysis and treatment of medical conditions), and telecoaching and self-care. The market is growing rapidly and it’s not hard to see why. Studies have found that TECS resulted in dramatic reductions in health events that absorb costly staff time: a 58 percent cut in GP visits, a 70 percent drop in emergency admissions, and a 30 percent reduction in hospital length of stay.
TECS are focused primarily on health benefits, and the staffing and cost efficiencies that flow from improving residents’ health and wellbeing in a care home setting, but effective technology can transform what’s possible in any living space. Voice-based systems can give residents greater independence, for example. Meanwhile, tunable light can correct disruption to circadian rhythms and aid dementia care: a small-scale trial in a care home in Sacramento, California, resulted in a 41 percent reduction in agitated behaviour, and in the winter of 2017–18, researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway launched a study on the effects of bright light therapy on around 100 dementia patients at eight nursing homes.
The key to unlocking the benefits of technology is the creation of care homes that are technology-ready, a concept embedded in the 10 key principles for design of housing for old people developed by the Housing Our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI) group in the UK. Building tech-ready housing will deliver higher quality of life, and thus will attract residents. It will give care home operators a strong assist in their efforts to retain staff in a competitive market, and it will help health and social care systems cope with the financial and resource pressures they face.
In Japan, robots too are beginning to play a part in caring for the country’s growing elderly population. At first sight they sound like little more than toys for older people: among the early recruits are Paro, a furry seal ‘therapy robot’ that reacts to touch, speech and light; Pepper, a humanoid that participates in games, exercise routines and rudimentary conversations; and Tree, a crawling-and-speaking robotic aid for walking. But these forerunners of a robot workforce serve a very real need: Japan’s workforce is shrinking as its retired population booms. By 2025, the country will face a shortfall of 38,000 specialist care workers.
So the more that Paro, Pepper and Tree can do, the better. And in an early-adopter nation like Japan, robots will find work. In 2016 the global market for nursing care and disabled aid robots was just US$19.2 million, but Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimates that by 2035, when a third of Japan’s population will be 65 or older, the domestic industry alone will be worth US$3.8 billion.
The lesson here is not only that technology is advancing fast and is an essential component of housing for older people, but also that a broad range of technologies are having an increasing impact on various aspects of care home life. Health-oriented systems are delivering cost and time-saving benefits, voice-activation can help residents achieve greater independence, therapeutic technologies such as tunable light are helping to reduce the incidence of agitated behaviour — and, in Japan at least, robots are beginning to work hard in care home settings.
So the benefits to both residents and operators of care homes are clear, as are the reasons that governments and specialist agencies are promoting the uptake of technology in the sector. The challenge for real estate investors is to identify the technology that will be cost-effective in a given project, and for proptech startups, it is to understand how their work can deliver value for care home operators, residents and staff.
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Dominic is co-founder and managing partner at Pi Labs. He leads the firm with a specific focus on investments and investors. He also sits on the boards of Brolly, FalconDHQ and Office App. Dominic has a wide background in Private Equity Real Estate worked with both AEW Europe and Savills Investment Management and transacted over €3bn of deals across Europe. Dominic has a degree in Law with French from the University of Birmingham and an MBA from the London Business School.
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As human beings our sense consciousnesses, occurring at each of our five sense doors, arise and pass away millions of times each second. It needs to be understood that, because there are several sense doors there is not just one process occurring, there are many. Thus, for example, as we sit in meditation we may be experiencing many processes, such as feeling contact with the ground, and also seeing, hearing and so on. However, the sense consciousnesses themselves are not occurring simultaneously, even though it may seem that they are happening in the same mind moment. They seem to be happening simultaneously only because they follow one after the other at such an incredibly rapid rate. Therefore, I first of all explain that the processes arising at the five sense doors arise in respect of their own different respective objects. I then explain how the sense object consciousness arises at each sense door. With regard to the sixth sense door, the mind, I explain that the mind door process is a purely mental process: for example a present thought may cause a memory to arise. I also explain the subsequent mind door process, which follows the mind door. With regard to this mind door process I also describe the meditation processes and the attainment of the different kinds of absorption. I describe the different types of process such as the supernormal process, the reviewing process, the dying process, the fruition process, the pre-Nibbanic process and the pari-Nibbanic process. These processes are only mentioned very briefly in the Manual. The dying process is closely related to the rebirth process. The Abhidhamma treats them separately and explains how they are linked - after death comes rebirth. It is my hope that many people, particularly in the West, will be interested in this description of the rebirth process.
The final section of the book is concerned with the process of matter. Material phenomena or qualities originate from kamma, consciousness, temperature and nutrition. I explain how these material qualities come together at the time of conception, and continue through life. I also explain what happens at the death moment and afterwards. At the moment of conception the formation of these qualities occurs within 17 mind moments and then immediately new qualities begin to arise and then pass away and so ceaselessly on and on throughout life, until the death moment.
Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma was born in Burma and entered the monastery at an early age. He studied Pali and Theravada Buddhism under various eminent scholar-monks in Burma and passed the highest examination in scriptural studies at the age of 23. In 1975 he moved to England, where he established a Buddhist centre in Birmingham as his base. For many years he taught meditation and Buddhism at various centres in Europe and the United States. He was a long-time Vice President of the World Buddhist Sangha Council. Ven. Rewata Dhamma passed away in May 2004.
Whenever I reach the Abhidhammatthasangaha (chapter IV), while teaching Abhidhamma, I find myself wishing that there were an English treatise on the Thought Process described there. There are books in the Myanmar language on this subject but they are not accessible to all my students and I have no time to explain since I don t want the Abhidhamma Course to be too long. A book in English would therefore be very good for the students. Then they could read it by themselves and only need explanations from their teacher in some difficult places.
Now my friend in Birmingham, Dr. Rewata Dhamma Aggamahapandita, has written Process of Consciousness and Matter, the very book I had in mind. He is an expert on Abhidhamma and explains in detail all aspects of the thought and matter processes.
Dr. Rewata Dhamma s addition to the literature on Abhidhamma thus fulfils a long felt need. In my opinion, his book will be prized alike by students of Abhidhamma and scholars in general as a precious and unique contribution to that literature.


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Anyone looking for updates on the Greenwald kerfuffle should probably go to Ace’s. Keep in mind that this was his discovery (actually his commenter Shawn’s), not mine — I just provided him with some IP evidence. He seems to have quite a few posts looking at various angles of the thing. I understand he has people working on timelines or something. I haven’t had time to follow it all, as my blogging and reading time has been very limited over the past couple of days. I’ll probably have more this evening or during the weekend.
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HFNZ Women's Experiences of Menstruation » Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand Inc.
In mid-2017 one of our members asked us whether there was any support available to help women pay the additional costs of sanitary items, like tampons and pads, borne by women who are carriers, or who have diagnosed bleeding disorders. This reflected an international movement to stop seeing these items as ‘luxuries’, and start recognising them as basic needs. This initial enquiry led to a plan to make a submission to Pharmac, and a survey of the experiences of HFNZ women. Phil Constable reports on the survey results.
For women who experience excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding, the costs associated with sanitary products can be many times that borne by women with a cycle that falls more within the normal range. However, it can be difficult to determine how close to ‘normal’ individual women’s bleeding actually is. There is stigma around discussing menstrual issues, and women with bleeding disorders, or who are carriers, often have no idea that they are anything other than normal.
In response to our member’s query, HFNZ determined to find out more about our women’s experiences of menstruation, with a view to submitting our recommendations to Pharmac.
The first step was to design a survey that collected the information we needed.
We used a survey designed for a 2013 international research project entitled The Effects of Menorrhagia on Women’s Quality of Life: A case-control study (Gokyildiz et al) as our starting point. We then formed an advisory group comprised of HFNZ women, who helped shape the final survey into one that gathered the information required to inform our Pharmac submission, and that reflected the experiences of HFNZ women accurately. The questions gathered statistical information, as well as quality of life information. There were 16 questions in all.
The survey was emailed to 218 HFNZ women over the age of 16, with the instruction that young women under 16 were welcome to complete the survey with parental support (if required), or that adults may complete the survey on their behalf (with their permission).
We had a very good response rate, with 71 women (33%) submitting their survey. Of those, 97% had a diagnosed bleeding disorder or carried the haemophilia gene.
Of the 71 women, 62 (87%) self-reported excessive bleeding, menorrhagia, during their period. Fifty-one of 67 (76%) reported they had been affected by menorrhagia for at least a year, with 43 (64%) saying they had been affected for more than 3 years. Surprisingly, 23% of women had never sought or undertaken treatment for their menorrhagia, with only 49% consulting their GP about it. The most common treatments were tranexamic acid (49%), and the oral contraceptive pill (43%).
As you might imagine, a significant proportion (75%) of the women categorized their bleeding as severe or very severe. This included experiencing flooding and the passing of heavy clots for 70% of women. On top of that, the majority of women experienced leaving blood on clothing (77%), on bedding (87%) and on underwear (93%).
The women shared that they generally used tampons and pads, although one used a moon cup. However, the number and frequency of change varied greatly. There were a very high number of women who used more than one sanitary item at a time, with 41 (58%) using a tampon and a pad, 10 (14%) using two pads at a time, and seven (10%) using a tampon and two pads.
As if using that number of sanitary items isn’t expensive enough, 42 (60%) of these women reported needing to change their sanitary items at least every 2 hours at peak times. For some of these women that means in excess of 24 pads and 12 tampons every 24 hours. Furthermore, 44 women (62%) reported that their periods usually lasted longer than eight days each month. That makes for a lot of pads and tampons.
Following the survey the information gathered will be used in a couple of different ways. The primary use will be to inform an HFNZ submission to Pharmac. This submission will advocate for more affordable access to sanitary products for women with diagnosed bleeding disorders, or who carry the haemophilia gene.
We’ll also be using the information to design a poster for presentation at the WFH World Congress in Glasgow. This poster will be seen by attendees from around the world, and will highlight the good work being done for women by HFNZ.
The information gathered will also form the basis of discussions at the 2018 Women’s Wellness Weekend. This event is for women aged 18+ who have a diagnosed bleeding disorder, or who carry the haemophilia gene. The weekend is scheduled for Wellington, at the Copthorne Oriental Bay, on the weekend of September 14 – 16.


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A chipset maker's controversial decision to intentionally disable illegal copies of one of its products via a Windows software update could have implications for operators of critical infrastructure equipment.
Future Technology Devices Inc. (FTDI) is the UK manufacturer of a popular USB-to-serial converter for enabling USB support on legacy peripherals. The company's technology is used widely within the critical infrastructure and healthcare sectors, as well as in many test equipment and consumer products.
FTDI recently released a software update that essentially "bricked," or disabled, counterfeit copies of one of its chips running on products from numerous manufacturers.
The Windows driver update was designed to reset the product IDs used by clone manufacturers to identify their chipsets, making the products unidentifiable to the operating system and therefore useless.
"This isn't a case where fake FTDI chips won't work if plugged into a machine running the newest FTDI driver," Brian Benchoff wrote on Hackaday.com. "The latest driver bricks the fake chips, rending them inoperable with any computer," including Windows, Linux, and OS X systems.
FTDI's move was apparently designed to discourage clone manufacturers from profiting illegally from the company's intellectual property.
According to Hackaday's Benchoff, the chip that the FTDI driver disabled is one of the most cloned pieces of silicon on Earth.
In May, FTDI CEO Fred Dart warned that FTDI was committed to taking "appropriate measures" to detect and detect counterfeit activity involving its products.
Still, the company's decision to brick chips in the field surprised many, because it targeted end users of the technology and not the actual clone manufacturers.
As Hackaday noted, it's very hard for consumers and even manufacturers of USB-to-serial conversion technologies to tell if the chips they are using are genuine or counterfeit just by looking at them.
Reid Wightman, an analyst with Digital Bond, a consultancy that specializes in critical infrastructure and industrial control system security, cited reports that FTDI's process for identifying counterfeit devices was imperfect, resulting in the update killing legitimate chipsets, as well.
It is basically impossible for end users to know whether every FTDI chip in the USB devices they own is legitimate, Wightman said in a blog post. "Cables using FTDI chips often come included with hardware that has a serial port, such as network switches, [programmable logic controllers], and other embedded devices."
Often the chips come integrated in devices with USB ports, making it even harder for users to know if the chips are fake or genuine. As a result, FTDI's driver update could create critical infrastructure problems for owners of such devices, he said.
"The concern with critical infrastructure equipment is that older equipment -- which still makes up an unfortunate amount of control systems -- often have only a serial interface for configuration," Wightman said in emailed comments to InformationWeek. Newer computers no longer have serial ports, so engineers frequently use USB-to-serial cables to gain life from old gear. "I would worry if an engineer bricked all of his or her USB-to-serial adapters and could not reconfigure one of these old pieces of equipment in an emergency."
One example would be if a control systems group needed to reconfigure the network in a hurry to set up switch ports for a virtual LAN or to disable MAC address restrictions. Often, the only way to reconfigure an older switch in an emergency is to connect directly to the switch with a serial cable. But if the cable has been bricked by the FTDI update, it won't be possible to reconfigure the system, Wightman said.
So far, there have not been any reports of critical infrastructure owners running into a problem because of the update, he said.
FTDI's Dart quickly pulled the update last week in response to growing outrage over the company's move. In a note, Dart offered no apology but acknowledged that the update had caused concern within the company's genuine customer base.
"The recently release[d] driver release has now been removed from Windows Update so that on-the-fly updating cannot occur," Dart said. The driver is in the process of being updated and will be released again next week. "This will still uphold our stance against devices that are not genuine, but do so in a non-invasive way that means that there is no risk of end user hardware being directly affected," he said without elaborating.
Wightman said he is not sure if FTID has rolled back any devices that had already installed the update back to their original state. "It could be that systems which downloaded the patched firmware will brick FTDI controllers until end users roll back the patch," he said. "I really don't know the answer to this, as I was too afraid to download the patch in case any of my cables were affected."
Dart did not respond to a request for comment on concerns about the update potentially impacting systems in the critical infrastructure.
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Fred Dart the CEO of FTDI downplayed the allged problems created by the company's decision to brick counterfeit chips and insisted that a majority of its customers were not affected by it at all. Here are his emaled comments in their entirety: Jai Vijayan.
Although in certain parts of the media it has been implied that there was some form of counterfeit detection algorithm in FTDI's latest driver, this was in fact absolutely untrue. There was no mechanism of that description in place and hence no flagging up of a counterfeit device ever occurred. Exactly the same commands were sent to a genuine chip as to a counterfeit chip. Some counterfeit devices simply failed to handle certain commands correctly (again something that's shows their lack of suitability for use in serious electronic system design) and they simply quarantined themselves.
Actually this whole episode has not affected our large or medium customers at all. They haven't been hindered in any way as they source chips either directly from us or via our global distribution partners (such as Farnell and Digi-Key). Even the vast majority of smaller customers have not been impacted and we have been liaising directly with those who have had concerns, in order to ensure that they have genuine FTDI chips. Our priority has always been to make totally sure that our customer base is not inconvenienced. In Asia in particular sales have been actually boosted as people are coming to us rather than certain other less reliable sources so that they can guarantee they have real FTDI silicon and not fakes. Board level products featuring FTDI ICs from Sparkfun, Elektor and Adafruit, among others, are in no way harmed either.
With regard to critical infrastructure - no FTDI definitely has not had any concerns from clients in this area. For such applications engineers are obviously very careful about the source of the ICs they specify. If they incorporated inferior chips into a design then they would be leaving themselves exposed to the possibility that an operational failure might occur when in-situ. They simply can't afford to put themselves in that position, that's why they deal directly with us or with our distributors.
If you get a genuine FTDI USB chip, as opposed to a counterfeit one, there is complete assurance of its continued operation and long term reliability. The company puts all its products through rigorous testing, with USB-IF, WHQL and ESD protection certification all secured. With counterfeit chips none of this effort or engineering resource has been invested into their manufacture, as a result there is a constant risk of them failing and potentially having serious repercussions for those who sourced them. In addition FTDI USB chips can rely on well tested drivers, firmware and software development tools, plus high response technical support is available to deal with customer queries.
Furthermore, FTDI USB chips employ a hard-wired state machine approach, whereas counterfeit devices will use programmable microcontrollers. This means that they aren't anything like as highly optimised and as a result can't match the performance levels set by FTDI devices.
The threat to the semiconductor industry that counterfeiting poses is growing all the time. It is similar to what the film and music businesses are currently seeing - with DVD and album sales dropping dramatically due to pirate copies and illegal downloads sites. This is likely to have a long term effect on creativity, as the investments that chip manufacturers (just like music labels and Hollywood studios) can make in bringing innovative products to market will be smaller and smaller, since their revenue streams are getting diverted to counterfeiters. The semiconductor companies and their distributors, as well as industry bodies like the SIA, need to address the problem now before it is too late.
Among Amateur Radio operators they have also run into this situation. In there case the manufacturer is Prolific who also makes a USB-serial chip. The chip is used in a programming cable for Chinese radios. You buy the cheap cable you get the knockoff chip. If the driver is updated - through Windows - the cable stops working. They then buy the more expensive cable and it starts working agian.
This story is amazing to me.
The idea that a hardware/firmware vendor could brick knock-off copies of the product that are widely in use touches on several several ethical and IP owner rights issues to include the rights of those people relying on those devices for critical operations.
Thanks for the great article. It raises some very interesting questions.


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4k00:28Aerial view of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU, MSU) on Sparrow Hills, Moscow, Russia. Panorama of Moscow with the Main building of University. Beautiful Moscow view from above in winter.
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