The lack of leadership on the part of the federal government, and the Coast Guard in particular, is a national embarrassment.
Most of the coast guard is ridiculously under funded, they simply don't have the resources to fix oil spills at any depth. Also, it's not their responsibility, as they are an armed defense of the US coastline. And even if they were somehow put in charge of oil spills, it isn't their responsibility until the federal government puts them in charge of this mess.
I really don't know why you would put any blame on the coast guard. You might as well blame the airforce.
By making it so thin does that mean they are using less exotic/toxic materials? Or does it simply mean that they've found a way to reduce the size of the packaging around the OLED pixels?
Most of the immigrants that I know came to the US legally, even the ones that came from real holes. The rest made a concerted effort to learn English and make their way through the citizenship process. All of my known ancestors came across legally too (although back then the process was completely different).
For any government interaction, nobody "loved the process." I didn't love getting my drivers license, passport, or fighting with the IRS to get them to fix their errors and get me my money back. In fact, I'd say I rather despised the processes. But I didn't throw my hands up in the air and work outside the law.
Immigration law, like many other laws, is in dire need of fixing, and I fully support legislation to simplify it and streamline the process. But that doesn't excuse people from breaking it for 40 years straight.
And this isn't about some obscure law that you accidentally broke. This is about immigration, something that all countries take seriously. If you're caught being an illegal immigrant in Mexico, they throw you in jail. By comparison, deportation is peanuts.
The battles are still being fought for... immigrant rights
I keep hearing this, but I can't figure out what rights immigrants are fighting for. I know lots of immigrants, and they all seem to be doing just fine.
Or are you talking about those people whose very presence in this country is a federal crime?
You're just arguing semantics. The end result is still that all works created now have a copyright, whether people want them to or not. If you say that is "inherently" or "automatically", the end result is the same.
whether or not works are inherently copyrighted -- they're not -- with when copyrights are granted for those works, at the whim of the government.
In the US, right now, all produced works are inherently copyrighted, as per Copyright Act of 1976. From the almighty Wikipedia:
Prior to 1978, works had to be published or registered to receive copyright protection. Upon the effective date of the 1976 Act (January 1, 1978) this requirement was removed and these works received protection despite having not been published or registered.
Now, congress may change the law at some point in the future, but as it stands now all currently produced works possess an automatic copyright protection, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Remember, just because something doesn't make sense does not mean that it isn't true.
This is not true, at least in the US. Everything that is written is automatically copyrighted by the author, including this statement. There are obviously practical limits though. This is part of the reason that I can't just search for your comments on the internet, print them, and sell them to others. You own the copyright on your statements.
There are only a few ways for stuff to pass into the public domain, namely it passing the copyright expiration date, and on government produced documents. This is why Creative Commons licenses are so important. You can't just say something is public domain, you have to license it freely to the public.
There are huge problems with this that no one seems to care about fixing. For instance, if someone doesn't register a work ever (like most internet posts) then why doesn't it pass more quickly in to the public domain? As it is, the vast majority of the content on the internet is locked in a sort of copyright limbo where the original author can't be gotten hold of and so it can't be reproduced in many fashions.
I just looked this up and a lot of information about the Thompson Coupling appears to have been deleted from Wikipedia, including diagrams that showed its internals clearly. Do you have any good sources for it?
It actually includes an option to prevent update, including from updates included on the disc. It's all academic for me right now, so I'm not that concerned. Although, back to the original point, installing the Homebrew and using that to make backups of your games is a pretty benign and safe method.
I just bought a Wii a month or so ago, and had no problem. Holding down reset while powering it on brings up the alternate loader which allows me to backup/restore the NAND. I installed the Homebrew channel, and a few utilities, but nothing else (done out of curiousity). At this point I simply disable the auto-updating and I don't have to worry about any changes I make to the system as I can just restore.
Funny. Before complaining that the VB was "garbage" because it was interpreted. Now most of the "Top languages" are interpreted or terrible slow, but are treated like the best thing in the universe. Before a language crude, slow, poorly developed as JavaScript would be ignored, but now is treated as the best thing in the universe.
Fashions are a plague.
I think it has more to do with VB being a poorly designed language for a poorly designed system. The two decades from its inception have given the world a lot of time to figure out what are good ideas and what are bad ideas. (I'm not going to try and defend JavaScript though.)
Adding Pascal/Delphi to the list is a good idea, but dropping C and PHP while retaining VB and VB.net is beyond any sane comprehension.
That was basically my thought, although from reading other comments it appears that "A-level classes" are the simplest of the high school classes.
Still, VB6 has been deprecated for so long that extended support ended years ago. And PHP, while being C-like for structure, is ridiculously easy to develop for due to it's loose type system and output. And why bother teaching VB.NET instead of C# if you're starting at the bottom anyway?
There are actually hacks available for this. But the use of them is still dangerous. You got a 2/10 chance to brick your Wii. And a 7/10 chance that it simply won't work.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers from, but the chances of bricking your Wii are at least an order of magnitude smaller, like 1/100. Done properly, the first thing you do is install a new boot loader, and then make a backup of your system's flash. That way, should a "bricking" occur, you simply perform the alternative boot and restore you NAND.
As for extracting WAD files, I've never done it, but I can't see why there would be a high failure rate. Heck, there are even hacks out there to load all of your discs onto a USB drive and run them from there.
So can they use this to find the fabled Lost City of Z in the Amazon jungle? And maybe the remains of explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared looking for it?
For those not in the know, this is possibly a real place that a real explorer went missing while searching for.
You'll have to forgive me if I sound like an idiot, but weather is not my area of expertise.
Why isn't 3000' far enough? Is there something about the air pressure that prevents clouds? Don't clouds go up and down in the atmosphere all the time?
I lived in California, and there were a number of varying weather patterns there. Air pressures and temperature changes caused wind in specific directions each part of the day.
Would it be possible to pump that water into the air into a wind headed up the side of a mountain?
i think you will find them being pcie cards, not 3.5" sata drives, as the drive shape limits chip numbers.
All of the SSD drives that I've seen are 2.5" drives. I've often wondered why no one uses some simple heat sinks and packs the chips as dense as can be into a 3.5" form factor.
The post from Duradin above is correct. The law gives the police to ask for proof of citizenship only if the person is already detained for some reason. Note that a drivers license works as documentation, so there is no necessity for carrying a passport.
Also note that the law in question specifically prohibits the state, but instead requires that the federal government determine that a person is an illegal alien (something the federal government is legally required to do).
is there a way to design roads and cars that can be safely navigated at the speeds people want to drive? Can we make a highway and a car both safe at 100 MPH?
All computer controlled on tracks means 100Mph should be fairly trivial to accomplish. Of course, this is all unlikely to happen, but it is a nice thought.
Ideally I'd like a non-PTV camera that isn't wireless, and gets its power using Power over Ethernet. That way I could just run a single Ethernet cable to do everything. Then I'd like to have it detect scene changes for auto-recording, and to be able to upload images/videos via FTP. Any advice?
JWSmythe was describing general policy, not the specific situation being discussed. I'm not a LEO (never have been, never want to be) but I've seen a lot of police training videos and I've never seen or heard of "beating down the guy standing there to maintain control" theory that you're putting forward.
AFAIK, an officer will ready themselves and verbally command a detainee multiple times. After that they pull out their weapon of choice for protection (club/taser/gun) and make it clear to the person that they are willing to use it to enforce their command. And even then, the officer is unlikely to use a weapon (or violence of any sort) unless the person charges or shows a weapon.
The fact that the border patrol lied about the situation should tell everyone immediately that they are the ones that screwed up. If there isn't an immediate investigation, then there should be a lawsuit. Because someone needs to clean up that crew.
About twenty years ago, I once called a police officer an asshole, to his face, in front of his immediate superior. It was justified - that man was behaving like a psychotic over a minor traffic issue (jaywalking) involving a friend of mine. The officer took out his baton and threatened to "beat me into submission", at which time his superior collared him and led him back to the squad car, came back and apologized to us. The first officer was suspended without pay and later dismissed from the force as being unfit to be a law enforcement official. My friend brought suit against the local PD - it scared her pretty badly - and although she wasn't awarded damages, the verdict by the judge contributed to the officer being dismissed from the force.
This is basically how things are supposed to work. An officer gets out of line, his superior pulls the officer out of the situation, and his superior attempts to correct the matter. Then the department internally recognizes the problem and takes steps to correct it (suspension pending an investigation). People get out of line in every profession, the key is what their organization does about it.
Had this been the first incident from the officer, then being awarded damages (outside of possibly paying for therapy) from the department wouldn't have made sense. On the other hand, if the officer should have been suspended already and wasn't, then that would be negligence on the part of the police department, and an award would have made sense.
Outside of the department it would be possible to sue the officer directly. He was a man in a job and he was acting out of line, completely overstepping his (and other's) rights.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad departments out there. Ones that would rather cover up the truth than face the problem. It's a top-down problem, and not one that can usually be fixed by a lawsuit. It requires a change of attitude starting from the top.
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The lack of leadership on the part of the federal government, and the Coast Guard in particular, is a national embarrassment.
Most of the coast guard is ridiculously under funded, they simply don't have the resources to fix oil spills at any depth. Also, it's not their responsibility, as they are an armed defense of the US coastline. And even if they were somehow put in charge of oil spills, it isn't their responsibility until the federal government puts them in charge of this mess.
I really don't know why you would put any blame on the coast guard. You might as well blame the airforce.
By making it so thin does that mean they are using less exotic/toxic materials? Or does it simply mean that they've found a way to reduce the size of the packaging around the OLED pixels?
Most of the immigrants that I know came to the US legally, even the ones that came from real holes. The rest made a concerted effort to learn English and make their way through the citizenship process. All of my known ancestors came across legally too (although back then the process was completely different).
For any government interaction, nobody "loved the process." I didn't love getting my drivers license, passport, or fighting with the IRS to get them to fix their errors and get me my money back. In fact, I'd say I rather despised the processes. But I didn't throw my hands up in the air and work outside the law.
Immigration law, like many other laws, is in dire need of fixing, and I fully support legislation to simplify it and streamline the process. But that doesn't excuse people from breaking it for 40 years straight.
And this isn't about some obscure law that you accidentally broke. This is about immigration, something that all countries take seriously. If you're caught being an illegal immigrant in Mexico, they throw you in jail. By comparison, deportation is peanuts.
The battles are still being fought for... immigrant rights
I keep hearing this, but I can't figure out what rights immigrants are fighting for. I know lots of immigrants, and they all seem to be doing just fine.
Or are you talking about those people whose very presence in this country is a federal crime?
You're just arguing semantics. The end result is still that all works created now have a copyright, whether people want them to or not. If you say that is "inherently" or "automatically", the end result is the same.
whether or not works are inherently copyrighted -- they're not -- with when copyrights are granted for those works, at the whim of the government.
In the US, right now, all produced works are inherently copyrighted, as per Copyright Act of 1976. From the almighty Wikipedia:
Prior to 1978, works had to be published or registered to receive copyright protection. Upon the effective date of the 1976 Act (January 1, 1978) this requirement was removed and these works received protection despite having not been published or registered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Duration_of_copyright
Now, congress may change the law at some point in the future, but as it stands now all currently produced works possess an automatic copyright protection, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Remember, just because something doesn't make sense does not mean that it isn't true.
Works are inherently in the public domain
This is not true, at least in the US. Everything that is written is automatically copyrighted by the author, including this statement. There are obviously practical limits though. This is part of the reason that I can't just search for your comments on the internet, print them, and sell them to others. You own the copyright on your statements.
There are only a few ways for stuff to pass into the public domain, namely it passing the copyright expiration date, and on government produced documents. This is why Creative Commons licenses are so important. You can't just say something is public domain, you have to license it freely to the public.
There are huge problems with this that no one seems to care about fixing. For instance, if someone doesn't register a work ever (like most internet posts) then why doesn't it pass more quickly in to the public domain? As it is, the vast majority of the content on the internet is locked in a sort of copyright limbo where the original author can't be gotten hold of and so it can't be reproduced in many fashions.
I just looked this up and a lot of information about the Thompson Coupling appears to have been deleted from Wikipedia, including diagrams that showed its internals clearly. Do you have any good sources for it?
It actually includes an option to prevent update, including from updates included on the disc. It's all academic for me right now, so I'm not that concerned. Although, back to the original point, installing the Homebrew and using that to make backups of your games is a pretty benign and safe method.
I just bought a Wii a month or so ago, and had no problem. Holding down reset while powering it on brings up the alternate loader which allows me to backup/restore the NAND. I installed the Homebrew channel, and a few utilities, but nothing else (done out of curiousity). At this point I simply disable the auto-updating and I don't have to worry about any changes I make to the system as I can just restore.
Funny. Before complaining that the VB was "garbage" because it was interpreted. Now most of the "Top languages" are interpreted or terrible slow, but are treated like the best thing in the universe. Before a language crude, slow, poorly developed as JavaScript would be ignored, but now is treated as the best thing in the universe.
Fashions are a plague.
I think it has more to do with VB being a poorly designed language for a poorly designed system. The two decades from its inception have given the world a lot of time to figure out what are good ideas and what are bad ideas. (I'm not going to try and defend JavaScript though.)
Adding Pascal/Delphi to the list is a good idea, but dropping C and PHP while retaining VB and VB.net is beyond any sane comprehension.
That was basically my thought, although from reading other comments it appears that "A-level classes" are the simplest of the high school classes.
Still, VB6 has been deprecated for so long that extended support ended years ago. And PHP, while being C-like for structure, is ridiculously easy to develop for due to it's loose type system and output. And why bother teaching VB.NET instead of C# if you're starting at the bottom anyway?
There are actually hacks available for this. But the use of them is still dangerous. You got a 2/10 chance to brick your Wii. And a 7/10 chance that it simply won't work.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers from, but the chances of bricking your Wii are at least an order of magnitude smaller, like 1/100. Done properly, the first thing you do is install a new boot loader, and then make a backup of your system's flash. That way, should a "bricking" occur, you simply perform the alternative boot and restore you NAND.
As for extracting WAD files, I've never done it, but I can't see why there would be a high failure rate. Heck, there are even hacks out there to load all of your discs onto a USB drive and run them from there.
So can they use this to find the fabled Lost City of Z in the Amazon jungle? And maybe the remains of explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared looking for it?
For those not in the know, this is possibly a real place that a real explorer went missing while searching for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_of_Z
You'll have to forgive me if I sound like an idiot, but weather is not my area of expertise.
Why isn't 3000' far enough? Is there something about the air pressure that prevents clouds? Don't clouds go up and down in the atmosphere all the time?
I lived in California, and there were a number of varying weather patterns there. Air pressures and temperature changes caused wind in specific directions each part of the day.
Would it be possible to pump that water into the air into a wind headed up the side of a mountain?
I guess that makes sense, it's basically two drives strapped together.
i think you will find them being pcie cards, not 3.5" sata drives, as the drive shape limits chip numbers.
All of the SSD drives that I've seen are 2.5" drives. I've often wondered why no one uses some simple heat sinks and packs the chips as dense as can be into a 3.5" form factor.
The post from Duradin above is correct. The law gives the police to ask for proof of citizenship only if the person is already detained for some reason. Note that a drivers license works as documentation, so there is no necessity for carrying a passport.
Also note that the law in question specifically prohibits the state, but instead requires that the federal government determine that a person is an illegal alien (something the federal government is legally required to do).
And finally, there are already a number of states with stop and identify statutes, as described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes#States_with_.E2.80.9Cstop_and_identify.E2.80.9D_statutes
I take issue with many stop and identify laws, but the bad press that Arizona has been getting is purely political.
is there a way to design roads and cars that can be safely navigated at the speeds people want to drive? Can we make a highway and a car both safe at 100 MPH?
I suspect the only real solution is a widespread Personal Rapid Transit system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
All computer controlled on tracks means 100Mph should be fairly trivial to accomplish. Of course, this is all unlikely to happen, but it is a nice thought.
You might also look at using a cable key ring.
http://lifehacker.com/5302086/use-a-cable-key-ring-for-easy-key-management
And a quick disconnect keychain
http://www.google.com/search?q=Quick+Disconnect+Keychain
And an S Biner clip
http://www.countycomm.com/sbiner.htm
Yep and they are using btrfs for the underlying filesystem which is also not at the production use stage.
Would you clarify what the difference between Ceph and BTRFS is? From the description I thought that is what BTRFS and ZFS were supposed to be.
Ideally I'd like a non-PTV camera that isn't wireless, and gets its power using Power over Ethernet. That way I could just run a single Ethernet cable to do everything. Then I'd like to have it detect scene changes for auto-recording, and to be able to upload images/videos via FTP. Any advice?
Next: Using the graphics ram that is unused while in 2D mode, as a fast swap/tmpfs/cache. ;)
That's a really interesting idea. Can that really be done?
JWSmythe was describing general policy, not the specific situation being discussed. I'm not a LEO (never have been, never want to be) but I've seen a lot of police training videos and I've never seen or heard of "beating down the guy standing there to maintain control" theory that you're putting forward.
AFAIK, an officer will ready themselves and verbally command a detainee multiple times. After that they pull out their weapon of choice for protection (club/taser/gun) and make it clear to the person that they are willing to use it to enforce their command. And even then, the officer is unlikely to use a weapon (or violence of any sort) unless the person charges or shows a weapon.
The fact that the border patrol lied about the situation should tell everyone immediately that they are the ones that screwed up. If there isn't an immediate investigation, then there should be a lawsuit. Because someone needs to clean up that crew.
About twenty years ago, I once called a police officer an asshole, to his face, in front of his immediate superior. It was justified - that man was behaving like a psychotic over a minor traffic issue (jaywalking) involving a friend of mine. The officer took out his baton and threatened to "beat me into submission", at which time his superior collared him and led him back to the squad car, came back and apologized to us. The first officer was suspended without pay and later dismissed from the force as being unfit to be a law enforcement official. My friend brought suit against the local PD - it scared her pretty badly - and although she wasn't awarded damages, the verdict by the judge contributed to the officer being dismissed from the force.
This is basically how things are supposed to work. An officer gets out of line, his superior pulls the officer out of the situation, and his superior attempts to correct the matter. Then the department internally recognizes the problem and takes steps to correct it (suspension pending an investigation). People get out of line in every profession, the key is what their organization does about it.
Had this been the first incident from the officer, then being awarded damages (outside of possibly paying for therapy) from the department wouldn't have made sense. On the other hand, if the officer should have been suspended already and wasn't, then that would be negligence on the part of the police department, and an award would have made sense.
Outside of the department it would be possible to sue the officer directly. He was a man in a job and he was acting out of line, completely overstepping his (and other's) rights.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad departments out there. Ones that would rather cover up the truth than face the problem. It's a top-down problem, and not one that can usually be fixed by a lawsuit. It requires a change of attitude starting from the top.