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Student loans company says 'we're not overloaded'
The Student Loans Company has insisted its systems are coping with a surge of applications despite complaints of a rising backlog of applications ahead of the new academic year. Up to 50,000 students face starting term without full loans. Late applicants have been promised provisional payments. Student forums are still full of …
Unclear forms and dumb systems - predictable results
From my son's experience, it is no surprise they are in trouble.
Forms are badly drafted (we had to phone twice to ask what they meant).
And one of the most obvious of situations cannot be handled online. Thousands of students will end up on their second-choice course. How is this handled? The student is required to print off and fill out an EIGHT-PAGE form and send it by post, to be processed manually (target "two to four weeks").
Yet SLC already have the data - it is on the UCAS record from which they pick up the first-choice course. It would be trivially simple for them to offer an online solution for this.
SLC are delivering incompetence of the first order.
I don't remember..
..ever recieving an slc loan before semester started is that expected now?
that was 12years ago though!
obligatory cynism
Don't bother, save yourself from a life of debt and a worthless qualifiication and ditch University unless you are actually planning on doing something useful and needed.
We have enough people who 'studied' business / media / fashion etc and there are no jobs for you.
If you are doing a tech related degree think twice about exactly what job is available for you since 90% of tech jobs can and have been outsourced to somewhere with lower wages and higher standard of education (India).
... yeah and get a hair cut too! This isn't high school musical you know!!
(yoof of today with their long hair and scrappy clothes)
Nothing new
This stuff happens every year. That and the backlog in student accommodation at every bloody university.
Student Loans Company
They threated to take me to court for £0.11pence intrest. It cost more money to send me the letter threatening action.
So glad i have paid them off and never have to deal with them every again.
Wishing all the new studes good luck and try not to have too much fun!
They're too busy harassing me.
The reason they don't have enough people to answer the phones is because they're busy ringing my answering machine while I'm at work every day an pestering me for payment -- despite the fact they've never sent me a Direct Debit form and I send them cheques fairly regularly.
When the company changed hands a few years ago they changed from a (relatively) efficient and reasonable loan provider to a third-rate debt collection agency.
Means they'll have to get a job whilst studying until their loans come in, my heart bleeds for them.
Student Finance England
Well no matter how bad they are, they at least manage to make a significant point in the first line of their statement that this news report completely misses.
The problem is actually with Student Finance England. There are others parts of The Student Loans Company.
Fuck you rob
Lots of students still work jobs will getting loans. A unless you believe it's only the privileged go to college or are you one of those that think college is worthless.
@AC I don't remember...
12 years ago you weren't required to pay tuition fees at the start of the year, and universities hadn't started charging ~£3-4k for 31 weeks accommodation.
The pinnacle of competence
Given the constant hassle they're giving my wife, in spite of her regularly providing all the required information for ongoing deferment and the frequent opportunities they take to steal money from her with neither the right nor permission, I expect they're too busy with their embarrassingly fumbling and shockingly incompetent debt-collection oafs to remember to lend any new students money.
If you want to really screw the blasterds over, rack up debt with them, then leave the country.
There is no way for them to chase you and you can live life happy in the knowledge that you scored yourself an old style student grant from before the government decided that free money for further education was money better spent on their own pay rises and falsified expenses.
The cost of education these days
You do realise that you have to pay your several thousand pounds tuition fees upfront from these loans?
Guessing you (like me) went to uni before you had to start paying £3k a year (plus top-up fees) for the pleasure of shit lecturers and substandard facilities, on top of having enough money to live.
The really dumb thing about this is that the hardest hit will be exactly the poorer kids who the government were supposed to be encouraging into higher education.
All the middle class kids will get mummy and daddy to sub them the money until the loan comes in.
How hard can it be? They only pluck their figures out of the air, anyway.
In 2006 the Student Loans company wrote, to refund me one hundred and fifty pounds worth of over payment, that they had made against me previously. This was for a student loan that dated from my BSc degree, which I began back in Summer 1991. Furthermore, it was on a debt that I had voluntarily repaid the bulk of, during my industrially-funded PhD, between the years 1994-1997. The most striking thing, however, is that I still have the letter I suddenly got from them in April 1999, threatening legal action if I did not repay the remaining balance of the loan - something around three hundred quid, as I recall - which I grudgingly did and thought no more of it... until this refund suddenly arrived (as unannounced and unexpected as the legal demand that came before it).
So it only took them seven years for them to work out that I'd been over charged £150, on a loan that was, by that time, a decade and a half old.
Now, in 2006, I happened working as an IT contractor at £32 an hour: a precarious but wealthy existence. £150, was a short-day's work, to me, by then. However, I reckon that at any time in between the Summer of 1991 and the Autumn of 1999, £150 would have been pretty damn useful to me (albeit in a rather boring, "paying-the-gas-bill" sort of way).
@John Geddes
As a student going through this process this year, I know exactly what you're going through.
The online application form takes forever to fill out and most of it is duplicated data they could have pulled from UCAS. Like your son, I didn't get my first choice. However, none of the documentation or information supplied to me by SLC indicated that I would need to contact them to inform them that I would be going to my insurance choice instead. I only found out in late August that I had to fill out that 8 page form and send it off. Thanks to the conflicting information available on their site, it was also sent to the wrong place first of all.
They've now finally got my correct University on record and with any luck I might see some money soon.
Well they can start by getting a hold facility!
Try dialling the 0845 number they give you - you'll get a message saying everyone's busy, call back later. (An engaged tone wouldn't make them any money, would it?)
Note - you can't get put on hold, and it's always busy (the only option is to keep hitting 'redial' and hope it lets you in). It works out pretty expensive, paying all those connection charges!
There's no good looking for an alternative non-0845 number - there was one, but they've cut it off sometime in the last week.
de ja vu all over again
Back in the 90's, under the old student loans regime, there came a "tipping point" when the loan became greater than the grant and the grant wouldn't cover basic costs like rent and deposit. Anyone with a photo sensitive cell could see this coming, and not surprisingly, there was a big spike in students applying for the loan on day one. Were the student loan company ready, were they buggery. Today's students have my sympathy. Very expensive pig in a poke this university lark.
The SLC are sending out nothing but lies.
I sent my application in April and it still isn't ready to pay me at the start of my course in just over 1 week.
Many who need their full means tested loans for things such as accomodation costs have only been given the basic non-means tested loans.
It is very common to have to send forms 3 or 4 times even when they have been sent by recorded delivery.
Their website is pointless - you can't change any part of your application on it (apart from your bank detail oddly enough). So all those who changed university because of their results had to send in paper forms.
Many of said forms sent on results day haven't been processed yet meaning that the SLC still thinks they're going to their original university.
Their fancy new scanners broke very early on meaning post had to be redirected up to Glasgow from Darlington.
These experiences all come from first hand experiences of me and my friends.
OH and if any of you are wondering i'm meant to be doing an MCOMP in Computer Science for 5 years at Bath. Although, guess what, the SLC messed up scanning in my form and instead have me down as doing an MMath in Computer Science for 4 years.
Their website has been unable to cope so they removed two of the most useful areas - view correspondence let you see which letters were winding their way to you and view evidence which let you see what evidence they had received and/or needed. Now everyone who needs to know these things instead have to clog up the phone lines leading to not even getting put in a queue. If you do get put in a queue you are on hold for 2 hours. Every time you ring you are told something different.
Finally, I do wonder why this supposedly devolution-loving government decided to instead centralise this process. Applying through LEA's (as in the old system) meant if there was a problem you could hop on a bus and see someone actually handling your application face-to-face. I'm envious of the returning students who are still under that system.
Thank god I avoided the SLC
Being part of the last year without tuition fees hath its privileges.
Back when I was a student there was a big hoo-ha about how the directors of the SLC were spending rather a lot of money on un-Student Loany things, namely whiskey and going to the rugby and cricket, so I decided not to deal with them if at all possible.
It always amazes me how often the SLC (or its subsidiaries) not doing it's job properly story crops up seeing as their parameters of operation are pretty well defined: busy time is August/September, expect up to half of the number of A level students that year to require your services; test your service response assuming that this will happen.
Yet, every time the story crops up, the SLC response is deny, deny, admit, but that there was an unexpected level of demand. It's not as though this is a new service and you woefully underestimated what "a lot of demand" meant as with something like the census website - you can ring up the Office of National Statistics or similar, ask them how many A Level students there are, divide that by 2 and add a few for luck, and there's a ballpark figure for demand levels that is on the generous side.
The online system they have in place is not as functional as you'd hope. It is very limited, and what is there is not explained well enough.
I could design a better system by myself that follows the principles of good GUI design, that an average user can use and immediately understand what they are doing or how to do something they desire. It should be the user that is in charge: the user wants to do something, and the portal enables them to do it. Instead the system works in a way that the portal allows them to do a limited set of things, if they can work out how.
One thing that is sorely lacking from it is a way to ask a question online. There is no way at all to do this. I had thought they might have a form you can fill in, and get a response to your account (as well as a notification to your email address). Or at the least, an email address you can contact. But the only way they allow you to contact them is by phone, and the people you get through to tend to not know much about it when put on the spot. Account-specific enquiries are hard to make, and you get conflicting opinions and the classic "left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" situations.
This is exacerbated by the changes they keep making. When I started my university education, it was handled by my local LEA. Apparently this is no longer the case. Some of my forms have to be sent to Student Finance England in -- I believe it was -- Darlington. But then, my LEA were angry because they have to be kept in the loop as well still, since I started with them. And recently I've had to send things to Glasgow instead. I don't even know why.
Howmever, the phone support from my LEA has been pretty good, the people there know what is going on and explain exactly what I should do. They are helping me to sort a situation out, and it IS getting sorted out, despite this claimed backlog etc. It is the new national Student Finance England that you have to watch out for, because my impression of them is that they're a bit useless.
Why apologize to their customers?
The ones that don't get their loans surely aren't customers yet?
The reason is obvious
Too many of these students don't have a NMCLFTMMCH!
What's a FTMMCH?
At least....
At least they haven't "lost" your deferrment papers (for the second year running) and then decided that must mean you want to pay the whole thing back in one go...
Re: The reason is obvious
Don't you ever read the Guardian, Neil?
ahhh memories
i never did figure out why they wouldnt give us the loan Before we got there
then i learned you'd spend it because your only human, managed to blow my loan on 5 for 20 deals on vhs tapes at HMV and booze of course
i then got double shafted because i was skint and had lots of VHS tapes when DVD was around the corner DOH!
beer because students etc.....
Re: The cost of education these day
>You do realise that you have to pay your several thousand pounds tuition fees upfront from these loans?
No you don't. Do you really go to university? I've just arranged to pay for my lads' fees by interest free instalments.
>All the middle class kids will get mummy and daddy to sub them the money until the loan comes in.
There are only two things that I don't like being called middle class is one of them and a Tory is the other. I've worked damn hard so that those of my children which have chosen (or have yet to choose) to go to university can do so without depending on outside financial aid. Oh, and I wouldn't for one moment think of what we are paying as a sub, it's part of parenting. Hopefully my children will be in a better position then me to provide for and help their own children, so we progress. If your parents didn't have the same work ethic or attitude towards their children then I think it's best to keep that chip on your shoulder to yourself.
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Items from the Mail Bag – Drunken Home Theater Install Edition January 26, 2012Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in blog thing, entertainment, Mail Bag.
Tags: Lord of Ultima, Namaste, Storybricks
This column, while I try to do it regularly once a month, is really an event driven item. Generally it only occurs to me to write it when I either don't feel like writing anything (when you have nothing to say, let somebody else say it for you I guess) or when somebody sends me something so ridiculous that I am compelled to put one in the "mail bag" category.
This month, it is the latter condition. So this month we'll start off with the grand prize and then taper off into obscure stuff so the whole post will seem like a let down by the time you get to the end.
Sorry in advance to the focus of the end story.
Where DUI Meets Home Theater
I am no stranger to the sponsored blog post offer, but this one this one seemed to deliver a new twist.
I'd like to inquire about doing a sponsored blog post – about 150-300 words that talks a little bit about DUI law and links back to our site [redacted]. We provide premier Custom Design, Engineering and Installation for home theater and I thought we might be a good fit for your readers/visitors on tagn.wordpress.com.
That's correct, we are speaking of a post about DUI law that links back to a custom home theater which would be a perfect fit for an online gaming blog.
(Apologies to McIntosh Labs, makers of completely awesome high end audio equipment which does not in anyway endorse this blog post or, I am going to guess, the selling of home audio equipment via blog posts about DUI law. But I am pretty sure that if they did make breathalyzers, they would be the best you could get.)
But this custom home theater site does have a budget for this sort of placement thing.
Our budget is around $15 for the post. Is this something you'd be open to?
Also we might be interested in a small banner ad if the price is right.
Our budget is $40/year
Woo hoo! That will get me a case of Lucky Lager and some pretzels to go with! I just love the puzzles in the cap.
I'm sorry, but at one point I was getting like $22 a month per link to put URLs in my side bar from a company trying to game Google Page Rank. (It was $30 a month when I was page rank 5, but I fell down to 4.) Granted, they stopped returning my calls after a while, but while it lasted that fat PayPal payment spoiled me and now I won't even get out of bed for less that $10.
Still, if this sounds like a deal to you, I can put in a good word.
Also if you have some other sites just send them over and we might be interested in doing a sponsored post on there as well!
Just drop me a note and we'll talk!
More Press Releases!
Laura at Cision US, Inc. dropped me a note to tell me that my blog has caught their attention and they are adding it to their database. I will be henceforth known and listed by them as:
Mr. Wilhelm Arcturus, Blogger of the Computers & Video Games Beat.
That is almost validation of my existence. And I love to get press releases!
Thanks Laura!
I'll have to send her a thank you note.
Treasure Awaits, My Lord!
Lord of Ultima sends me a note reminding me that I have a daily prize waiting for me if I fail to log on for a week or so. That always prompts me to actually log on, collect my prize, check what has happened to my empire, which is generally nothing.
Still, this seems to be working for me. I have moved from around 350th place in the rankings to about 200th place by doing nothing. I play on world 31 which is a truncated world with extra small landmasses, so basically about three weeks into the game all available room to build on was taken. Since then the game has been a matter of waiting for people to give up so you can take over their abandoned towns and castles. This has been going on for somethings like six months! Whee, a hell of a ride! I'm sooo drunk!
The Gamingo PR Team sends me lots of press releases about their browser based games. They just aren't all that interesting to me. None of them would warrant a post by themselves. But since they are so nice and persistent and no doubt live for the days when I deign to acknowledge their existence, and never use DUI laws as a troll for links, here is a list of the games they mentioned to me in January.
It Is So Komplex!
Ioana Buliga, a musical name if ever there was one, wanted to let me know about her company, Lucid Philosophy, and their new free to play browser based game, TwinKomplex. Probably the coolest thing about them is that there offices are in the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. I am tempted to sing "Ten Tons to Templehof" and other songs of the airlift, which I learned in my mis-spent youth. Don't ask.
Simply Unpronounceable
The site… or company… the email isn't clear… named Gamelosophers wants me to be a partner in… something. DUI legislation maybe? All I know is that they are from Amsterdam and that they need a new name. Really. I once worked for a company called "Smarketing," so I know.
Oh, and make your damn URL resolve correctly without the "www" prefix. Amateurs, I swear!
Amplify This
Emma with Amplified Media has… well… something coherent and possibly true to say about the site that implies that she or somebody at her company might have actually visited.
We love your collection of thoughts and stories on the world of online gaming. Your insights on the gaming highs and lows of 2011 was a great end-of-year piece.
If nothing else, that actually makes this email stand out from many of the others than don't even get posted with a DUI reference. I might have to respond to that one and find out what opportunities Amplified Media has in mind.
Always End With Namaste
Kelly Heckman, Community Manager and Cat Herder for Namaste Entertainment wants me to know beta is still coming up and that they have forums now so they can answer all of your Storybricks questions.
And, judging from the side bar, they might be at GDC or something. I'm not sure I will make it to GDC this year. The usual source of Expo passes for Potshot and myself, Darren, seems to have gone off MMOs completely. Instead he is all philosophical these days and is, if I understand it right, about to launch an offensive on the Twilight franchise.
Hey, this last entry wasn't such a let down after all, now was it?
Anyway, until next month, respect the mail bag!
- 1. Carson - January 26, 2012
"..offices are in the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.."
That's fairly cool, but a buddy of mine worked for a game engine company whose offices were in the grandstand of a greyhound racing track. Seems greyhound racing isn't as huge as it once was, so they lease out the innards of the grandstand for office space.
- 2. gnome - January 27, 2012
"Get a Catholic to say they are right…or even a Christian,…"
from Darren's blog. so confused by this statement. really miss the commensense guy.
- 3. steve - January 27, 2012
I recommend you take all the DUI cash you can get. I don't mind. As long as you continue to post your mussings on gaming, I can ignore the other posts no problem.
- 4. Zirce - January 27, 2012
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- 5. Brian 'Psychochild' Green - January 29, 2012
I've been authorized by the Storybricks team to offer you all the coupons I don't use from my mailbox (easily more than a $15 value) and a gorgeous, full-color pin-up pic of my beard for pimping us. What do you say?
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September 10, 2001
Mr. Kerry Wehmeyer
Chief Executive Officer
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Dear Mr. Wehmeyer:
A representative from the Commonwealth of Kentucky acting on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected your facility on September 6, 2001. This inspection revealed a serious regulatory problem involving the mammography at your facility.
Under a United States Federal law, the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) of 1992, your facility must meet specific requirements for mammography. These requirements help protect the health of women by assuring that a facility can perform quality mammography. The inspection revealed the following Level 1 findings at your facility:
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- Your records lack the required information that the interpreting physicial [redacted] is qualified to interpret mammograms. Your facility failed to demonstrate that [redacted] has either board certification from any of the approved boards or two months of initial training in the interpretation of mammograms prior to April 28, 1999.
- Your facility failed to demonstrate that [redacted] holds a valid state license to practice medicine.
The specific deficiencies noted above appeared under the Level 1 heading on your MQSA Facility Inspection Report, which was issued at the close of the inspection. These deficiencies may be symptomatic of serious underlying problems that could compromise the quality of mammography at your facility.
In addition, your response should address the Level 2 noncompliance items that were listed on the inspection report provided to you at the close of the inspection. These Level 2 noncompliance items are:
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1. Your facility failed to provide documents verifying that the interpreting physician:[redacted] met the initial requirement of having 40 hours of medical education in mammography prior to April 28, 1999.
2. Your facility failed to provide documents verifying that the interpreting physician:
[redacted] met the initial experience of having interpreted or multi-read 240 mammograms in six months.
Because this condition may be symptomatic of serious underlying problem that could compromise the quality of mammography at your facility, this represents violation of the law which may result in FDA taking regulatory action without further notice to you. These actions include, but are not limited to, placing your facility under a Directed Plan of Correction, charging your facility for the cost of on-site monitoring, assessing civil money penalties up to $10,000 for each failure to substantially comply with, or each day of failure to substantially comply with, MQSA standards, suspension or revocation of your facility?s FDA certificate, or obtaining a court injunction against performing further mammography.
The other item listed in your September 6, 2001 inspection report identified, as Level 3 should also be corrected. We will verify correction of this item during our next inspection. You are not required to address the Level 3 item in your written response.
The inspector reported that the noncompliance issues regarding [redacted] was corrected before inspection. Your the inspector that your facility corrected the deficiencies by dismissing [redacted] in May 2001. Please explain the following elements to this office in writing within fifteen (15) working days from the date you received this letter:
- The specific steps you have taken to correct the violations noted in this letter; and
- Each step your facility is taking to prevent the recurrence of similar violations.
Please submit your response to:Mr. R. Terry Bolen
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Food & Drug Administration
6751 Steger Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45237-3097
Also, please send a copy to the State radiation control office:Ms. Julie Keightley
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Radiation Control
275 East Main St.
Frankfort, KY 40621
Finally, you should understand that there are many FDA requirements pertaining to mammography. This letter pertains only to findings of your inspection and does not necessarily address other obligations you have under the law. You may obtain general information about all of FDA?s requirements for mammography facilities by contacting the Mammography Quality Assurance Program, Food and Drug Administration, P.O. Box 6057, Columbia, MD 21045-6057 (1-800-838-7715) or through the Internet at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/mammography.
If you have more specific questions about mammography facility requirements, or about the content of this letter, please feel free to contact Mr. R. Terry Bolen at 513-679-2700, extension 138.Sincerely yours,
Henry L. Fielden
District Director
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A stupid person.and all persons are stupid unless they become aware and alert. All persons are stupid. So when I say stupid, I don't mean any condemnation, I simply indicate a state of unawareness. Everybody is born stupid. Fortunate are the few who don't die stupid. Stupidity is the sleep you live in. How can you avoid it?
How can a man who is fast asleep avoid dreaming? If he tries, he will create another dream. In the very avoidance, you will do something stupid. Don't avoid it, accept it, because avoidance is trying to defend it. You don't want anybody to know that you are stupid, but that is not going to help. And the trouble is, by avoiding continuously you may yourself forget that you are stupid. Then you are settled in it, then there is no way out. That's how you have created your troubles: you have been avoiding them, then you deceive others, then by and by you are deceived yourself.
People come to me with problems, but those are not the real problems. Rarely a person comes with an authentic problem; otherwise they don't know exactly what their problem is. They have a false problem, so they can be engaged in solving it. They will never be able to solve it because a real disease can disappear, an unreal disease cannot disappear. In the first place, it is not there. How to make it disappear? And by fighting with the wrong disease, they are defending the right disease. They are engaged in fighting with something which is absolutely pseudo, so they are giving time for the real disease to grow and spread and become a cancerous phenomenon in their being.
To look at the right problem is difficult because from the very beginning you have been taught to avoid.
In the Pune newspapers, every day I see somebody dies - a husband dies, a wife dies - and in the memory a picture is printed that "My wife left for the heavenly abode, this very day one year ago."
You don't say "death." That word is too real and hits hard: "Left for the heavenly abode.." Who are you deceiving? - not the wife who has already left. You are deceiving yourself! You are afraid of death, you are hiding death in a beautiful terminology, "heavenly abode." Now there is no fear; in fact, even a little desire to go yourself..
The basic problem is death. You have made a code and you may forget completely - and this is how you are working with life! You feel angry, but you don't say that you are angry. You say, "I feel restless." Restlessness is not a condemnatory thing.
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A Wisconsin man has been charged with joining a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries organized by the computer hacker group Anonymous.
The U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday that 37-year-old Eric J. Rosol, of Black Creek, Wis., was indicted on one count each of damaging a computer and conspiracy to damage a computer.
The indictment alleges that Anonymous asked conspirators in February 2011 to launch a so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon that sent a high volume of repeated requests to a Koch website. Numerous conspirators complied, and the company's website crashed.
Rosol also is accused of sending a code that damaged the company's computer.
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Rocks in spaceAugust 23,2013So, which would you rather do: Capture an asteroid or go back to the moon?
This is one of the many interesting issues facing Congress that we probably will not have time to debate once Congress actually comes back next month. Then itll be nothing but Obamacare and government shutdowns and the occasional discussion about whether Sen. Ted Cruz has managed to dispose of his recently discovered dual Canadian citizenship.
Which I am personally looking forward to a lot. But today lets consider the American space program.
Space exploration is one of the extremely few areas in which there is a lot of bipartisan agreement in Washington. For instance, both parties believe that the United States should be trying to get to Mars. Eventually. Nobody thinks this will happen anytime soon partly because the technology is so challenging and partly because Congress keeps cutting the space budget. So far, NASA has not shown any interest in the tactic being used by a Dutch company that hopes to establish a Martian colony in about 10 years, with money that would come in part from producing a reality series, somewhere along the lines of Big Brother or perhaps Real Housewives of the Red Planet.
The third point of wide bipartisan agreement is that nobody wants their constituents to be clobbered by an asteroid. Really, this is a priority. The Obama administration is currently promoting an asteroid grand challenge, in which were invited to find all asteroid threats to human populations and figure out what to do about them.
And this is good news, people weve already pinpointed about 95 percent of all the rocks in the solar system that are of planet-mashing size.
I know that you are now instantly focusing on the remaining 5 percent, as well as the multitudinous smaller fellows that are capable of taking out Massachusetts or Paris or your local shopping center. Everybody is in favor of finding them too, particularly since one grazed Russia earlier this year, causing the House Science Committee to hold a special Threats From Space meeting.
Even members of Congress who pooh-pooh the peril of global warming believe in the danger of global asteroid-exploding. I am thinking about Rep. Lamar Smith, the Texas Republican who heads yes! the House Science Committee. And Cruz, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space, who demanded that we do what needs to be done to prevent an asteroid from hitting the Earth and smashing into a major American city. Or a Canadian one.
Despite all this cheerleading, there hasnt been all that much money spent on the mission. Discover magazine estimated that over the past 15 years, the United States had spent less money on asteroid detection than the production budget of the 1998 asteroid movie Armageddon. In which Ben Affleck won Liv Tyler but the Earth lost Shanghai, much of New York and Bruce Willis. But we were talking about capturing asteroids.
The question is what NASA should do during the really, really long pre-Mars interlude. The White House wants to send an unmanned spacecraft to capture a smallish asteroid, tow it back and put it into orbit around the moon, where we could send astronauts to study it. This would most definitely help us in the race to develop the best capture bag, and theres pretty wide agreement we would acquire some other useful technology as well.
This would be the first time humans have, in some sense, rearranged the solar system for their own purposes. So thats exciting, said Tom Prince, director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at the California Institute of Technology.
Not as far as the House of Representatives is concerned. The Science Committee recently voted to cut all the money for asteroid capture and invest it instead in a new moon landing. There were several objections to the Obama plan, the main one being that it was kind of boring. Costly and uninspiring, sniffed Chairman Smith.
The White House position was that if you wanted to talk about boring, look at a moon landing. Going back to the moon, something we have done six times, just does not seem to us worth the investment, Lori Garver, NASA deputy administrator, said in a phone interview.
And anyway, what about protecting the Earth from a killer asteroid? I believe I speak for all of us when I say that space exploration is good, but not being hit by a large hunk of galactic rock is even better.
The House Republicans could have a point. The asteroid that NASA wants to capture would be way smaller than Killer Visitor dimensions. Although it does seem a little peculiar that theyre calling for a dramatic moon-colony initiative at the same time theyre cutting the space budget.
Its also conceivable that the Science Committee doesnt like the Obama plan because its the Obama plan. This has been known to happen in the House. Perhaps we should be grateful it hasnt voted to cancel the asteroid-capturing program 40 times.
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WOONSOCKET- Grace L. Bourque 85, of Mendon Rd. died Monday at The Holiday. She was the wife of George D. Bourque with whom she had been married for sixty three years.
Born in Woonsocket, she was a daughter of the late Phillippe and Rose Anna (Deziel) Dubois.
Grace worked for the Woonsocket Junior High School Lunch Program for twenty two years before retiring in 1986. She also worked for the former Narragansett Knitting for twelve years. Grace was a member of the Senior Citizens Center and Precious Blood Seniors.
Besides her husband she is survived by two sisters, Jeannette Pouliot of N. Smithfield, and Violet Champagne of Woonsocket, two granddaughters, Stacey Pettella of North Kingstown and Kelly Morris of Lincoln, and a great-grandson Nicholas. She was also the mother of the late Elaine Bourque Vanasse and Cynthia Bourque and sister of the late Lucille Dubois, Therese Parenteau, and Rachel Deslauriers.
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663 posts • joined 22 Sep 2009
Google+ goes TITSUP. But WHO knew? How long? Anyone ... Hello ...
Re: Titis up?
No that's the aforementioned tits down/ normal state.
You should have typed g(*)(*)gle or similar.
Stray positrons caught on ISS hint at DARK MATTER source
Re: BBC to balme
So you're saying that Dr. Who isn't an entertainment program, but a documentary?
Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Boffins say they've got Lithium batteries the wrong way around
Re: @ Def
>Better start planning now for a major move to another galaxy
A more local star system would be a better bet, and a slightly further away one should be sufficient unless FTL transport is deemed to exist in which case a galaxy would be another option.
Boffins attempt to prove the UNIVERSE IS JUST A HOLOGRAM
Re: I was thinking of another type of hologram
Well there could be two differently lost socks or, potentially, the same sock at different points in it's existence (though the same point in ours) though of course that could be used to prove sock time travel, which would open up a whole new can of worms - or a whole new washing machine if using the sock-idiom.
Why has the web gone to hell? Market chaos and HUMAN NATURE
Re: "teenagers hogging the phone line "
C20 for the lazy, CXX for the latin-trained
Oracle reveals 32-core, 10 BEEELLION-transistor SPARC M7
Re: Nice!
No idea, but maybe these servers will have liquid cooling as standard or something.
Which is about time to happen IMHO.
Top Gun display for your CAR: Heads-up fighter pilot tech
Re: Irrelevant observation number 1:
I use a speedview (http://www.speedview.co/) after market HUD, which just shows your speed - which I think is all you need, apart from voice navigation perhaps, else there will be too many distractions.
The idea of handling calls when driving is just wrong.
LOHAN acquires aircraft arboreal avoidance algorithm acronyms
My suggestions so far
Safe Landing Under Trees System
High Altitude Rentry Detect Correct Or Reject Emergency Software EXample
Careful And Methodical Extraneous Local Tree Observation Engine
World's only flyable WWII Lancaster bombers meet in Lincs
Re: Random factoid.
Well you could have started a discussion about the Buccaneer, or the TSR2 I suppose.
Russia, China could ban western tech if they want to live in the PAST
Re: Heck no...
My 990 is still going Ok, and I bought mine in the new year - I have found one location that doesn't allow either sim to work, but away from there it's normally fine - the tunnels out of Kings Cross can be troublesome though :-)
After all a quad-core (1.5Ghz), dual sim, dual camera, microSD (up to 64Gb) phoe with 2Gb RAM and 32Gb ROM for £200 from Amazon is worth a try isn't it?
NASA tests crazytech flying saucer thruster, could reach Mars in days
Re: Even accounting...
A space elevator would be far more useful.
App permissions? Pah! Rogue Android soft can 'place phone calls at will'
4.2.1 is SDK >=17 and vulnerable on my Zopo Captain S
My particular version wasn't listed on the website, but the call came up despite no permissions granted to do so.
Of course there is no OS update available from the manufacturer yet - and Cyanogenmod doesn't seem to be available for my phone yet :-(
REVEALED: GCHQ's BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE
Re: Why did we publish this?
And of course we are the ones paying for it.
IT'S ALIVE! ISEE-3 responding to commands
Also the whole story behind it http://www.rockethub.com/42228 and more at NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/content/isee-3-an-old-friend-comes-to-visit-earth/ is well worth a read through.
Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival
Re: The tank used for the illustration ...
I was wondering if I were going to be the first to notice and post :-) not by a long shot,
Concurr - ISU122 sp assault gun
Thats why I read the Reg comments..
Russia to suspend US GPS stations in tit-for-tat spat
Re: American GPS stations
I think you have to be american for that to make sense: ie. the World series, MIss Universe, .com etc.
SpaceX touts latest gear: new module, rocket demo
Space Elevators
I think that more effort should be put into building space elevators, rockets are rather a dead-end as far as the future goes.
The LiftPort Group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiftPort_Group) are trying, but more needs to be done.
With the development of usable graphene we are seeing the first of the real technical hurdles go down.
Drone 'hacked' to take out triathlete
Re: Why bother with...
Hmm, you're taking my thought experiment seriously? that's just as odd don't you think?
Maybe I should have put a joke icon in there somewhere :-)
Re: Why bother with...
Ooh - that is an expansion on a previous thought of mine, and it sounds much fairer than my version.
Other rules might include 'accidental' injuries or death of referees (sniper is red-carded), linesmen (yellow) and people on your team (round(s) replaced and given a stern talking to), and the handling of ricochets (maybe ballistic helmets for people in the first three rows?)
Much kinder than mortar fire, siege engines or longbows (ah those were the days - those 'football' mathes with the French eh?).
Sadly I suspect that none of these improvements will be taken up.
Re: Why bother with...
Since I don't like football in the slightest I have long held the idea of an audience participation model where each person gets their moneys-worth by being able to select an area of the pitch with goes 'live', if a majority of the audience chose the same area the land-mines would activate and the players would then be earning their money.
Nothing necessarily deadly - just crippling would be interesting enough.
WIMPs wipe each other out in giant radiating spot at galaxy's centre
Re: Interesting, but
I have wondered whether our universe is actually closed and curved, so that though it is indeed very large (as per HHGTTG) it's as though we are looking around the curve of a sphere, our line of sight (so to speak) never ends, but just keeps on going around and around, with the same objects being seen multiple times at different wavelengths since they would be at different positions each time.
An idle thought anyway.
What's 10,000 light years across and smells of gamma radiation?
Your mum!
Sorry - I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet.
Too late, Blighty! Samsung boffins claim breakthrough graphene manufacturing success
Re: I've had an idea
Well look into space elevators and the materials that would be needed for one of those - graphene (or something similar) is the main step along that way.
As for patenting it there have been way too many prior publications - try Fountains of Paradise, Pillar to the Sky or any of the many othes.
Dutch doctors replace woman's skull with 3D-printed plastic copy
I hope...
That the surgeon wasn't washing his hands after and wondering where his watch had got to.
The Reg's desert XP-ocalypse aversion plan revealed
Wouldn't Libre Office make more sense, I understand it gets better support and updates?
Admin tools like Fing and advanced port scanner for networks, an ISO mount utility, a linux boot USB drive (and CD) for just in case a HD fails, Gpart, robocopy (does that come on 7?) or similar for backup tasks (will there be a NAS on the network?), printer & scanner drivers if necessary.
Schneier: NSA snooping tactics will be copied by criminals in 3 to 5 years
Re: Well, perhaps not all the tactics.
By definition if it's against the law then they are criminals - if it's legal then they aren't.
Wait - who are we talking about? governments, big business or criminals? it's so easy to get them confused.
Worlds that could support LIFE found among 715 new planets
Drake equation
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
The Drake equation is:
N = R* . fp . ne . fl . fi . fc . L
N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which radio-communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past light cone);
R* = the average rate of star formation in our galaxy
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point
fi = the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations)
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space
L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space
so fp seems to be 1,
ne seems to be what 1 in 10 maybe?
So hopefully N is non-zero - we're getting closer...
Re: Gravity??
Depends on density and composition I would say - is it all rock, all gas, or somewhere in between, a 2.5x rocky planet is likely to have higher gravity, but a gassy one far less.
'G-WIZ like' object doing 40,000 MPH CRASHES on the MOON
Re: Wow
The bright light - just where the arrow is pointing in the lower left.
The moon isn't know for producing these on it's own (whereas the sun does it on a boringly consistent basis) so it's pretty noteworthy.
Fandroids get their very own PERVY SMUT browser
Not if everyone does it (the opting out of the filter - not porn (ab)use).
The most effective form of control is one that people do themselves.
SkyMapper turns up oldest star ever found
Re: What type of star is it?
Wasn't Dave supposed to kick-start the next universe using jump leads from Red Dwarf?
OMG, we're living in Dave Listers universe...
Oh, actually it was from Starbug, nevermind, ignore this post and carry on :-(
UK spooks STILL won't release Bletchley Park secrets 70 years on
Re: Post war operations
Apparantly the Russians were taking any enigmas, and presumably Lorenz, they found during and after the war as well, so no doubt they were very useful in getting a picture behind the curtain.
What is strange is that the Russians were being given some Ultra intelligence during the war, but never seemed to realise it was from the Enigma and Lorenz machines.
What is staggering is the total secrecy that BP worked under - even (or especially?) people that met there and married each other never let on what they did,
Volunteers slam plans to turn Bletchley Park into 'geeky Disneyland'
Re: A message from the target of these 'improvements'
There is no need to limit a letter to one person, Think your MP, Bletchley local councillors, local and national newspapers, the education board, BPT trustees - the list goes on.
Re: Time for The Register to weigh in methinks.
My Thought:
The Register picks a saturday and published it to it's readership.
The Register designs a NMOC 'flag' for people to print
On said saturday the readership does it's damnest to attend TNMOC, not BPT, with printed flags,
When leaving the TNMOC people leave their flags with a personal note on the back.
There is no profit, aside from a point being made perhaps.
Smog-hit Beijing shows sunsets on a giant TV to remind people what the sun looks like
>you cant polish a turd?
Sounds like you haven't even tried:
Freeze it,
Varnish it
Polish it.
Let us know how you get on :-)
Chinese Jade RABBIT SIGHTED ON MOON by NASA probe
Well done China.
And NASA of course.
Another country breaking into space exploration, maybe I should transfer my childhood dreams to China now, especially if the US is going to be spending more money on bailing out banks and less on space.
Snowden to warn Brits on Xmas telly: Your children will NEVER have privacy
Re: Yawn
Well it's one thing to have a defined and definite enemy, as with the cold war and the IRA, but it's another to have a society systematically trawled for all it's information regardless of it's value.
I'm all for finding and thwarting terrorists - but the NSA and GCHQ have been busy intercepting internet traffic and, it is alleged, this has not made any substantive impact on terror attacks.
I think that Snowden is right, has taken extreme risks in what he has done and it's instructive that the one place that he has been able to find asylum was, up until recently, the very worst of countries (we assumed) for monitoring it's citizens.
World+dog: Network level filters block LEGIT sex ed sites. Ofcom: Meh
>BT, for example, has told us that it uses its system to block access to sites promoting proxies
>and anonymisers.
So already it's being used for blocking other sites which have nothing to do with 'protecting the children' and I wonder how many other sites will be included.
Calling all Spare Rib veterans: Sisters, don't lose your rights!
I can't help but feel that they (the British Library) don't want this to go ahead, unless permission is assumed if the author doesn't get back to them to deny permission? then the default will be not many contributors getting back to them - let along giving permission.
Euro satellite to count a BEELLLION stars, find origin of Milky Way
Long term planning
20 years in the making and it's going to take 5 years to 'complete'*, producing a pentabyte of information for astronomers to trawl through.
Ok, so I'm not living in a hotel on the moon, nor do I have a flying car, anti-gravity belt or robot butler, but by gum in 20 to 30 years from now I'll be pretty sure of where I am in the galaxy! **
I'm glad to see that people with vision can still get projects like these off the ground.
*Yeah right - 5 years from now the controllers will be thinking 'how many more can we do before it packs in', I suspect it will be going for a long time.
** beware of the total perspective vortex - it might ruin your day.
WIN YOUR OWN HADRON COLLIDER pop-up book with El Reg
Re: Complaint in Writing
Well that's YOUR story started then....
Ghosts of Christmas Past: Ten tech treats from yesteryear
Re: I had the Sharp PC-1500 in 1992
A friend and I had one each and I remember writing a program to work out starship specs (for Traveller - a D&D in space) which worked pretty well as I recall.
I also have a 2600 in the loft, but I also enjoy listening to Johnathon Coultons '2600' which is a tribute to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1bRm7XXNo
Malware+pr0n surge follows police op to kill illicit streaming sites
Re: City of London Police
Ha Ha - you're funny....
Think - why is it called the 'City of London Police'? and exactly what sort of 'clients' are there in the City for the Police to look after?
Chinese gamer plays on while BMW burns to the ground
Re: Yooof ?
Traditionally one way to deal with an over-population is to take someone elses' land- using any excess males to do so.
Amazon floats 'Prime Air' drone delivery plan
Other options
Bundle deliveries together and use the Amazon B52 delivery system - can target urban areas with the new 'package-let' technology.
High speed and precision deliveries by 'Ama-cruise' - only useful for high-g tolerance packages
Or the 'Blimp-Fling' (tm) which will catapult your package from our cruising blimp and be guided in by laser targeting - please remember to not look up at our blimp
Amazona - a re-commisioned USA WW2 battleship will deliver your package as long as it is not larger than 16" in diameter, and the delivery address is within 20 miles of the coast.
Sony's new PlayStation 4: Early faults ENRAGE some buyers
CAD has it covered
:-), now where's that joke icon....
That time when an NSA bloke's son borked the ENTIRE INTERNET...
Re: I can't find* the report a spelling mistake button so...
> Ducklin's post reflecting on tyher Morris Worm event
I suspect.
*Actually I can see it when I do a post, but my browser asks to set up my browsers email client, and I can't be bothered.
Facebook fans fuel FAGGOT FURY firestorm
Re: Faggots? Yuck!
>Your IQ needs recharging
Hmm, reminds me of:
' Prime Minister of New Zealand Robert Muldoon was asked about the increasing exodus of New Zealanders leaving the country to work in Australia. His comment was that by doing so, they were raising the average IQ of both countries.'
HTC phone STOPS BULLET, saves Florida gas station clerk's life
Cop says "So for this gentleman to be as lucky as he is, it's a good day for us."
I would say a jolly good day for the clerk as well, the police save some paperwork and he gets to live.
Why Bletchley Park could never happen today
No easy answers
Well the only 'easy answer' I can think of is:
We do not spy or collect information in a general manner on anyone.
We will use RIPA and other laws/ techniques to investigate any reported suspicious behaviour'
Please tell us if you see anything suspicious.
The hearts and minds approach to getting a population on your side is to ensure that the general population see that it's in their own interests to help.
Without the willingness of the people to help it's only a matter of time before there is anarchy/ revolution/ civil war.
Give people back the sense of the country actually being theirs and they need to help look after it.
(wishful thinking I know, but hey - Friday!)
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by Vicky Grant
I have started to ask myself this question more and more recently, and it has given me much cause for concern. I am aware that this blog may be controversial, but please hear me out.
During my first year (almost!) as a vaper, and a member of a much-loved community of very passionate and supportive people, I have joined the ranks and fought alongside this growing group. We all believe in our fight against policy changes that would effectively destroy the freedom of choice we have found, and which has led to several million of us across the EU feeling a darn site better – in health and wealth.
My concern began when I stepped back from the heat of the battle, just for a while, and I started to realise that maybe we were pushing just a little too hard in a manner that could potentially and irretrievably damage our reputations as reasonable people. I KNOW that we are reasonable people and it pains me to see how blinkered we have become about the issues we confront. I have found some of the many twitter exchanges hard to read; forum posts that seem to do nothing but inflame and hurt people who are trying nothing more than to support our cause, but see it from a different point of view. Every time I see something where someone doesn't fully understand or doesn't support us, we turn like a pack of angry dogs looking for a bone to gnaw.
This clearly demonstrates our passion, but at the same time it has become personal and hurtful and damaging to all, both 'them' and 'us', if you will. We need to find positive means of engagement, not forceful, destructive methods to get people to understand and support vaping. We see vaping as a positive and beneficial thing and we want others to as well, so you may be able to understand why I am not fully supportive of snarky, hurtful comments in response to a tweet, or when a forum post descends into finger pointing and yet more hurtful and negative comments.
So now that I have made my point, you're probably all shouting, 'Well, smarty pants, what would you do? If you think you could do a better job!!'
Firstly, I believe we all need a few days out. Totally and completely. No twitter, no facebook, and no forums…..nothing to do with the vaping battle. It WILL still be here when you return. This is a time of reflection; a time to gather thoughts and ideas; a time to reject knee-jerk, panicked reactions of how to get people to listen. We need to think of ways to engage the media, yes, but MOST importantly we need to engage the general public – who already seem to be in broad support, but we can educate more of them. We need to STOP engaging with the likes of Simon Chapman, Stanton Glantz and public health nutters who are spouting on about totally unfounded dangers, and who have no evidence to support their claims. They do it to inflame us and it works every time! We know what the evidence says; we know that it supports us; and we know they know it, too. We have no need to argue with them; all it does is make us look just as unreasonable as them – and we could be better using our time educating, and engaging in a more positive, balanced outlook on our treasured vaping.
I know I may be unpopular for saying all of this, but I believe I am strong enough to take the beating, and if we all step back and look at it a little more objectively, am I wrong?
Please vapers, let's not lose sight of who we are and what we wish to achieve; please don't let our battle be lost; we need to be positive and kind and helpful. Is it essentially about regulations or is it about public health? Is it perhaps about giving the opportunity we have had to others who may wish to enjoy it, too?


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Kanye West to Kim Kardashian in 2009: Leave Reggie Bush!by Hilton Hater at . Comments
Forget "Theraflu," the April track in which Kanye West confessed his love for Kim Kardashian.
According to TMZ sources, the rapper actually made it clear in 2009 that he had feelings for the reality star, expressing them in the single "Knock You Down." Listen to it here:
Specifically, Kanye is supposedly directing the following lyrics to Kardashian:
"You was always the cheerleader of my dreams/To seem to only date the head of football teams/And I was the class clown that always kept you laughing/We were never meant to be, baby we just happened."
Because Kim was with Reggie Bush at the time, the song adds: You should leave your boyfriend now.
In a recent stop by The View, Kim said she sees her relationship with West as "permanent," meaning a future marriage may actually last 100 days!
Kim Kardashian Sex Tape is a hot trend on the internet.
You can find it here: Kim Kardashian Sex Tape uncut
Kanye West to Kim Kardashian in 2009: Leave Reggie Bush!
Hh yeah baby! It made my day!
Have fun
Wait a minute i thought chocolate & vallina don't mix haha
Oh, silly Kanye. I thought you only liked fishsticks.
sO wHaT wHo CaReS
So now, we are going to dissect every Kanye's song to try to find hidden messages to Kim? People really don't have a life, do they?
So very true. LOL!!!!!
Oh.....fuck this bitch. Everyone else has..


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