First, you are aware that the solar output (Solar Constant) has been measured since the 1970's ? There is no need to look at distant worlds to see if it is changing - it varies around at about the 0.1 % level.
Well 0.1% can vary quite a bit too... I mean just looking at percentages the bigger something is the more it will vary by.
For Example 0.1% of 1000 = 1 0.1% of 1,000,000 = 10,000
The former is pretty small change, the latter is a potentially huge change.
I suspect these are more for 'eye in the sky' operations over military installations where they have a high amount of security already. And if something is 20,000 feet up there is not a lot that will hit them that the insurgency would have access to. I do not believe grenade launchers or RPG's have that sort of range but then again I'm not an expert on military weaponry.
I think the point they're trying to make is that 'consumer grade' stuff can utilize the same methods as some of these high end enterprise setups.
In reality what I'd expect to see given the falling price of storage technology is a move towards RAID 5+1. Which is what the Enterprise level stuff is doing but with consumer grade hardware. I know the original idea behind RAIDs were to provide redundancy and protection from data loss. Thus maybe we'll see people moving to RAID1+0 since it's simpler to deal with and you can always have 2, 3 or 4 drives in the 1 section to build up a sufficient amount of redundancy since each disk you add limits your data loss. Also if you have 3 or 4 drives rebuilding would take faster since 2 drives could be used for RAID operation while 1 drive would be dedicated to rebuilding the drive being replaced.
No the DHS can act as if it's always yellow or orange or whatever color they keep it locked to. The rating system is supposed to be FOR THE PUBLIC. I don't think since oh what was it Sept 11, 2001 that we should collectively be on a state of constant panic and alert looking for terrorists. Now if they get some credible threats and/or chatter that something is imminent then yes it would make sense to raise it from Blue or Green or whatever to yellow or orange to get the public involved in helping them. However, the presumed constant state of alert as others have said will only lead to people just flat out ignoring the system unless it comes out to 'WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!' and some jackass flies a few more planes into some buildings.
Yes. Vigilance against the Government. I'm far more worried about Washington and Albany than I am about a handful of naked savages residing in caves who managed to pull off a single mass casualty attack only through luck and our own incompetence.
And our own incompetence isnt going down anytime soon either. As Albert Einstein said... There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.
So if I was to mail you a package with three sticks of dynamite, a blasting cap, and had it rigged to blow up when you opened it... it'd be your fault for getting blown up?
Yes but that is something that is lethal... This while dangerous hasnt directly killed anyone involved. It'd be more like sending someone a bag of dog shit and stinking up their house when they open it. It can eventually go away but you'll always remember what happened.
I wonder if I can tailor my shotgun to their ads (or the camera)... Just what we need more billboards and displays and things to distract already distracted ADHD drivers to crash into more things.
How is Dell's poor management of their imaging system anybody else's responsibility? 'Extensive testing' is just code for 'we are a bunch of conniving lazy ass middle managers who depend on our outsourced technicians to tell us what to do.'
No it's shorthand for make the change and wait a few weeks while everyone pours in complaints.
I believe what's trying to be said here is that the Solar Roadway technology being discussed will be more 'active' than Asphalt. Meaning when it starts losing light due to snow it'll convert energy it's already stored into heat thus be more able to keep the roadway clear more often than not. With proper banking of roadways a few degrees either way you could melt the snow and have the water run off to the side.
Also the ideas that plows might be a problem was what I was thinking. Such big monstrous things could very easily damage or destroy the electronics or any surfacing agent used. Usually after plowing up here in Canada they lay down a layer of rock salt although lately they've taken to using brine which supposedly is better for the environment since it uses less salt.
Except that to look through bank records they would have required a warrant. By getting a warrant it gives them a laser pointer vision of what they can use in a court of law. Meaning if they seen something in someone else's bank records they would not be able to use it... in theory. Although corrupt officers could very easily use it as a starting point for an investigation.
In reality what should happen is a supeona because we're assuming the bank is NOT involved in a cover up at this point. The bank would then get the requested records and hand them over to the police (IE. Something like all of John Smith's Records SIN 000-000-000)
It has always been my understanding that the Supreme Court has determined that the border is where the powers of the executive to order searches has been at its zenith.
More precisely, warrants are not required at the border.
So, within that confluence of factors, the searches were probably quite legally acceptable.
Oh sure they have some pretty crazy powers at the borders. However, the main principle of UNREASONABLE remains. I mean we can assume it is reasonable to look inside people's bags, check them with a metal detector and such... But if we made it a prerequisite to leaving or entering the country to undergo a full body cavity search for EVERYONE... Well I'm pretty sure everyone (including the Supreme Court) would consider that unreasonable. Because to violate the body of someone you generally are required to have some just cause to pull them aside for extra screening and such.
Considering DVD players are backwards compatible with CDs and the Blu-Ray type things are backwards compatible with DVDs and CD's I'd say yes there would be a method to read a CD 15 years from now.
Clearly you need to include some sort of hand cranking device... Just in case civilization collapses and the electrical grid was taken out and they need to repopulate the world with little Billy from next door.
Actually Commercial Copyright Infringement is in some criminal codes. Until now though those sorts of charges require you to be dealt with by law enforcement and not some minimum wage prick that sits around watching people connecting to torrents and their IP addresses. These are usually prosecuted under something like fraud and/or forgery from what I imagine.
I agree though turning personal copyright infringement into a criminal offense would be a crime in and of itself.
Easy way to do it is by room name and number or cubicle number. This way you have an idea where the machine physically is. If you have to remove or replace it you can do it by just swapping out old one with a new one with the same computer name.
Really... Who ever said anything about money. It's something that is built into the firmware of every hard drive sold since about the year 2000. The government uses ATA Secure Erase. It does what I described in the previous entry by overwriting with the head offset at -10% and +10% to erase the little bit on the edges.
Ofcourse, if you have something REALLY incriminating then you're best off ensuring physical destruction. This is what the DoD does with any drive that's contained like top secret information or is it classified.
There was an article on 2600 recently about ATA Security Specification. You can apparently use it to perform a secure wipe which is what the DoD uses these days. Two passes at different offsets (-10% and +10%) to prevent recovery of magnetic data from the 'edges' of the sectors with a scanning electron microscope or something crazy like that. Rather than the crazy 36-pass wipe or something they used back in the day.
If it's good enough for the government spooks, its a good place to start for us.
Not everything should be free... Just things that are more than 7-14 years old. Bring back the Public Domain and stop letting companies hide behind corporate authorship to let their creations stay copyrighted in perpetuity... Then maybe I'll consider rampant copyright infringement to be 'stealing' but until then its the corporations that are 'stealing' from the public domain.
The flaw in that thinking is if every job is requiring you to sign a contract like such... Sorta like all these EULA and Click through contracts except with more legal weight behind it.
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First, you are aware that the solar output (Solar Constant) has been measured since the 1970's ? There is no need to look at distant worlds to see if it is changing - it varies around at about the 0.1 % level.
Well 0.1% can vary quite a bit too... I mean just looking at percentages the bigger something is the more it will vary by.
For Example
0.1% of 1000 = 1
0.1% of 1,000,000 = 10,000
The former is pretty small change, the latter is a potentially huge change.
I suspect these are more for 'eye in the sky' operations over military installations where they have a high amount of security already. And if something is 20,000 feet up there is not a lot that will hit them that the insurgency would have access to. I do not believe grenade launchers or RPG's have that sort of range but then again I'm not an expert on military weaponry.
Except they're all dudes. Where the females at? Need some chicks to do repopulating.
I think the point they're trying to make is that 'consumer grade' stuff can utilize the same methods as some of these high end enterprise setups.
In reality what I'd expect to see given the falling price of storage technology is a move towards RAID 5+1. Which is what the Enterprise level stuff is doing but with consumer grade hardware. I know the original idea behind RAIDs were to provide redundancy and protection from data loss. Thus maybe we'll see people moving to RAID1+0 since it's simpler to deal with and you can always have 2, 3 or 4 drives in the 1 section to build up a sufficient amount of redundancy since each disk you add limits your data loss. Also if you have 3 or 4 drives rebuilding would take faster since 2 drives could be used for RAID operation while 1 drive would be dedicated to rebuilding the drive being replaced.
No the DHS can act as if it's always yellow or orange or whatever color they keep it locked to. The rating system is supposed to be FOR THE PUBLIC. I don't think since oh what was it Sept 11, 2001 that we should collectively be on a state of constant panic and alert looking for terrorists. Now if they get some credible threats and/or chatter that something is imminent then yes it would make sense to raise it from Blue or Green or whatever to yellow or orange to get the public involved in helping them. However, the presumed constant state of alert as others have said will only lead to people just flat out ignoring the system unless it comes out to 'WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!' and some jackass flies a few more planes into some buildings.
Yes. Vigilance against the Government. I'm far more worried about Washington and Albany than I am about a handful of naked savages residing in caves who managed to pull off a single mass casualty attack only through luck and our own incompetence.
And our own incompetence isnt going down anytime soon either. As Albert Einstein said... There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.
So if I was to mail you a package with three sticks of dynamite, a blasting cap, and had it rigged to blow up when you opened it... it'd be your fault for getting blown up?
Yes but that is something that is lethal... This while dangerous hasnt directly killed anyone involved. It'd be more like sending someone a bag of dog shit and stinking up their house when they open it. It can eventually go away but you'll always remember what happened.
I wonder if I can tailor my shotgun to their ads (or the camera)... Just what we need more billboards and displays and things to distract already distracted ADHD drivers to crash into more things.
Hahaha...
If Co$ doesn't like our Anonymous Internet then they can go build their own internet.
How is Dell's poor management of their imaging system anybody else's responsibility? 'Extensive testing' is just code for 'we are a bunch of conniving lazy ass middle managers who depend on our outsourced technicians to tell us what to do.'
No it's shorthand for make the change and wait a few weeks while everyone pours in complaints.
I believe what's trying to be said here is that the Solar Roadway technology being discussed will be more 'active' than Asphalt. Meaning when it starts losing light due to snow it'll convert energy it's already stored into heat thus be more able to keep the roadway clear more often than not. With proper banking of roadways a few degrees either way you could melt the snow and have the water run off to the side.
Also the ideas that plows might be a problem was what I was thinking. Such big monstrous things could very easily damage or destroy the electronics or any surfacing agent used. Usually after plowing up here in Canada they lay down a layer of rock salt although lately they've taken to using brine which supposedly is better for the environment since it uses less salt.
Except that to look through bank records they would have required a warrant. By getting a warrant it gives them a laser pointer vision of what they can use in a court of law. Meaning if they seen something in someone else's bank records they would not be able to use it... in theory. Although corrupt officers could very easily use it as a starting point for an investigation.
In reality what should happen is a supeona because we're assuming the bank is NOT involved in a cover up at this point. The bank would then get the requested records and hand them over to the police (IE. Something like all of John Smith's Records SIN 000-000-000)
It has always been my understanding that the Supreme Court has determined that the border is where the powers of the executive to order searches has been at its zenith.
More precisely, warrants are not required at the border.
So, within that confluence of factors, the searches were probably quite legally acceptable.
Oh sure they have some pretty crazy powers at the borders. However, the main principle of UNREASONABLE remains. I mean we can assume it is reasonable to look inside people's bags, check them with a metal detector and such... But if we made it a prerequisite to leaving or entering the country to undergo a full body cavity search for EVERYONE... Well I'm pretty sure everyone (including the Supreme Court) would consider that unreasonable. Because to violate the body of someone you generally are required to have some just cause to pull them aside for extra screening and such.
Unfortunately not. FOIA only deals with the government from what I understand not private businesses.
Considering DVD players are backwards compatible with CDs and the Blu-Ray type things are backwards compatible with DVDs and CD's I'd say yes there would be a method to read a CD 15 years from now.
Clearly you need to include some sort of hand cranking device... Just in case civilization collapses and the electrical grid was taken out and they need to repopulate the world with little Billy from next door.
Actually Commercial Copyright Infringement is in some criminal codes. Until now though those sorts of charges require you to be dealt with by law enforcement and not some minimum wage prick that sits around watching people connecting to torrents and their IP addresses. These are usually prosecuted under something like fraud and/or forgery from what I imagine.
I agree though turning personal copyright infringement into a criminal offense would be a crime in and of itself.
Easy way to do it is by room name and number or cubicle number. This way you have an idea where the machine physically is. If you have to remove or replace it you can do it by just swapping out old one with a new one with the same computer name.
Really... Who ever said anything about money. It's something that is built into the firmware of every hard drive sold since about the year 2000. The government uses ATA Secure Erase. It does what I described in the previous entry by overwriting with the head offset at -10% and +10% to erase the little bit on the edges.
Ofcourse, if you have something REALLY incriminating then you're best off ensuring physical destruction. This is what the DoD does with any drive that's contained like top secret information or is it classified.
Yeah...
The FCC should just do what the rest of the government does and invoke Sovereign Powers junk that lets them say 'Sorry you cant sue the government'.
I know it is wishful thinking... Basically its a play on Prisoner's Dilemma. Except instead of having 2 people to screw you over you have MILLIONS.
I agree...
There was an article on 2600 recently about ATA Security Specification. You can apparently use it to perform a secure wipe which is what the DoD uses these days. Two passes at different offsets (-10% and +10%) to prevent recovery of magnetic data from the 'edges' of the sectors with a scanning electron microscope or something crazy like that. Rather than the crazy 36-pass wipe or something they used back in the day.
If it's good enough for the government spooks, its a good place to start for us.
You dont have to melt the whole thing, you just have to make sure that the drive exceeds the curie point at some point.
Not everything should be free... Just things that are more than 7-14 years old. Bring back the Public Domain and stop letting companies hide behind corporate authorship to let their creations stay copyrighted in perpetuity... Then maybe I'll consider rampant copyright infringement to be 'stealing' but until then its the corporations that are 'stealing' from the public domain.
The flaw in that thinking is if every job is requiring you to sign a contract like such... Sorta like all these EULA and Click through contracts except with more legal weight behind it.