Where I live, government provided power is significantly better.
I used to live in a city which had a city owned power plant. Rates per kWh were about 20% lower than surrounding cities, and there were no monthly connection fees. Depending on how much power you use, the total bill is 25-35% lower.
Reliability numbers are slightly better as well, but not by much.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and probably a good example of why they hid this information away
Slashdot is using a certificate with a SHA-256 signature. You are talking about the encryption cipher the webserver is using, which has been superseded, but is not yet considered a security risk.
For as much as people love to rant about Iowa, we have exactly the situation you want here. I can go to almost any gas station and get regular unleaded without ethanol. It tends to run around 30-40 cents higher than the 10% ethanol blend. I use it for all my lawnmowers/snowblowers/etc. and occasionally put it in my cars when I'm going on a long trip and the better highway mileage might make it worth it.
The vast majority of the time, I do the same thing almost all consumers do which is buy the cheapest gas they can find. 90% of consumers don't give a shit about ethanol, they only see that it's cheap so that's what they use. Personally, when driving in the city I see less than a 1MPG difference so paying the premium for pure gas just isn't worth it.
Also, just to clear up the misconceptions about how much Iowans care about farming: 60% of Iowans live in urban areas, only 25% of Iowans have ever farmed anything at any point in their life, and only about 17% are currently employed directly or indirectly in agriculture. The vast majority of Iowans do not give a shit about farming or ethanol.
You can still custom order a car from any dealer. If you know exactly what you want, are willing to wait, and willing to pay for it then they will be more than happy to set it up for you. Several of my relatives still order trucks in exactly that manner.
Personally I'm more than happy to just search dealer inventories online.
Elementary schools teach neither hunting nor Spanish
When I was in elementary school, that was true. By the time I graduated high school, Spanish was being taught in 5th grade. The school I formerly went to was one of the first in the state to start an elementary foreign language program. I suppose it could just be a quirk of the area that I live in, but I was under the impression that now, many years later, it had become pretty widespread.
You are looking for FAR 91.119 This is the regulatory language covering minimum safe altitudes.
You'll notice there is an exception for helicopters. Essentially there are no limits for helicopters other than the flight has to be "conducted without hazard"
The companies that will use this already have frequencies dedicated exclusively to them. In fact they have a huge amount for their exclusive use. I as a consumer have a limited number of frequencies available for my purposes. I have to share them with every other person around me.
There is absolutely no need for cellular operators to start intruding on unlicensed spectrum. If this truly is about "fair sharing of a shared asset," then when can I expect an equivalent amount of spectrum to be opened in their bands for my uses? If I have to share with them it's only fair they share with me, right?
I realize that this is completely legal by current regulations. It's probably past time to review those regulations to keep commercial operators on the parts of the spectrum they already own. If you have dedicated frequencies allocated to you, then there is no reason to spread onto shared frequencies as well.
I also use an ad blocker to get rid of the useless "Video Bytes" and "Slashdot Deals" junk that shows up on the main page. Who needs that checkbox when a real ad blocker can do so much more?
A clamp on ammeter? I have to imagine they are much more accurate than making your own poor man's version out of looped wire and an ancient analog VOM.
I've been using Mediacom for about 8 years, and while they aren't terrible, they aren't great either.
When doing a speed test, I generally get faster than expected results. I pay for 50/5, and usually test around 55/6. However, during peak times I frequently have issues with Netflix and Youtube videos. These issues don't exist with other websites I've tried, and speed tests still show faster than expected results.
After getting frustrated with poor performance in the evenings, I decided to set up a VPS running an HTTP proxy. When using the proxy, all issues with Netflix and Youtube go away and I get the maximum quality available with no stuttering.
So at least in my experience, Mediacom seems to be engaging in the same shenanigans as other providers. I've noticed that at least in my area, Mediacom seems to be using AT&T as an upstream provider so this could just be AT&T screwing with things. Either way, I'm not happy that I have to go out of my way just to get a usable connection for internet video.
This study concludes there is also a bias in hiring for STEM education positions.
Oh wait, the bias here is actually significantly in favor of women. It also notes that women who took time off to raise a family were preferred over women that did not. Maybe things aren't actually as dire as you suggest.
I had heard the same thing, that particulate matter in the atmosphere had a cooling effect.
Usually when people are complaining about soot from airplanes, it's that we're dumping it on all the people living in the departure path of major airports. Which does seem to be a legitimate health concern.
Your link to mh-aerotools.de pretty clearly illustrates why this isn't going to be happening to commercial aircraft anytime soon. By making some fairly absurd assumptions about efficiency gains from changing aircraft design (and ignoring all aspects of aircraft design other than efficiency) you still need batteries that have 6x the energy density of modern technologies. Using some numbers that might actually be realistic and you'd need more like 10x the energy density.
The Cessna 150 is a pretty terrible design. To be fair, it is really old and there have been a lot of advancements in aerodynamics, as well as in materials and construction techniques that make more efficient designs easier to make. A more modern two seat aircraft would get more like 150mph ground speed at 5 gallons per hour. That's 30mpg.
I believe the issue is the FCC regulations regarding antennas apply to governments, but not private agreements with HOAs. Basically, if you signed the contract saying you can't erect an antenna, that's your problem.
Sorry, but rubycodez is 100% right here. You can not take a single study of limited substances on a single species and claim that it applies to every sweet tasting thing in humans. We have no clue by what mechanism that insulin response is triggered. They may have a good theory, but we won't know until extensive testing is done. That's the way science works. A single study may be interesting, but proof it most certainly is not.
We switched to Check_MK for monitoring. It's basically a collection of software that sits on top of Nagios.
The default disk monitoring allows alerting based on trends (full in 24hours, etc.) or thresholds based on a "magic factor." Basically it scales the thresholds so that larger disks alert at a higher percentage, adjustable in quite a few different ways to suit your tastes.
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's the FAA's job to keep planes flying and keep the people on them safe. It sure as hell is not their job to promote internet usage.
Basically the article is saying: "When you arbitrarily assign a job to a government agency, they're not very effective." Wow, I'm so glad that got cleared up. I was about ready to tell the local water works that they need to get me faster internet speeds.
The following are the currently available licenses:
Open source license, for use of the S.I.. This is a Free Software License B closely modeled on BSD, X, and Mozilla licenses.
Trademark License. for new licensees who want to use the OpenGL trademark and logo and claim conformance. This license is available free of charge if you are developing open source implementations on open source platforms. For closed source licenses or licenses on proprietary platforms, a charge will be associated with a trademark license.
Emphasis mine. There's also a note on the page that former licensees can open source their code and no longer need a license. If you're making an open source implementation, OpenGL seems pretty open.
A huge portion of that 90% has either basic or extended basic cable. Those plans typically do not require a cable box. You can't equate subscribing to cable with not using a tuner.
I currently get basic cable, and my provider sends all the local stations in HD via Clear QAM. I don't have a cable box, and if my provider forced me into getting one (along with the rental fee and $50 increase in programming fees) I'd drop cable altogether and buy an antenna.
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Where I live, government provided power is significantly better.
I used to live in a city which had a city owned power plant. Rates per kWh were about 20% lower than surrounding cities, and there were no monthly connection fees. Depending on how much power you use, the total bill is 25-35% lower.
Reliability numbers are slightly better as well, but not by much.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and probably a good example of why they hid this information away
Slashdot is using a certificate with a SHA-256 signature. You are talking about the encryption cipher the webserver is using, which has been superseded, but is not yet considered a security risk.
For as much as people love to rant about Iowa, we have exactly the situation you want here. I can go to almost any gas station and get regular unleaded without ethanol. It tends to run around 30-40 cents higher than the 10% ethanol blend. I use it for all my lawnmowers/snowblowers/etc. and occasionally put it in my cars when I'm going on a long trip and the better highway mileage might make it worth it.
The vast majority of the time, I do the same thing almost all consumers do which is buy the cheapest gas they can find. 90% of consumers don't give a shit about ethanol, they only see that it's cheap so that's what they use. Personally, when driving in the city I see less than a 1MPG difference so paying the premium for pure gas just isn't worth it.
Also, just to clear up the misconceptions about how much Iowans care about farming: 60% of Iowans live in urban areas, only 25% of Iowans have ever farmed anything at any point in their life, and only about 17% are currently employed directly or indirectly in agriculture. The vast majority of Iowans do not give a shit about farming or ethanol.
Go ahead and click on EV Code Signing Certificate and have another look at that price.
You can still custom order a car from any dealer. If you know exactly what you want, are willing to wait, and willing to pay for it then they will be more than happy to set it up for you. Several of my relatives still order trucks in exactly that manner.
Personally I'm more than happy to just search dealer inventories online.
Elementary schools teach neither hunting nor Spanish
When I was in elementary school, that was true. By the time I graduated high school, Spanish was being taught in 5th grade. The school I formerly went to was one of the first in the state to start an elementary foreign language program. I suppose it could just be a quirk of the area that I live in, but I was under the impression that now, many years later, it had become pretty widespread.
You are looking for FAR 91.119 This is the regulatory language covering minimum safe altitudes.
You'll notice there is an exception for helicopters. Essentially there are no limits for helicopters other than the flight has to be "conducted without hazard"
The companies that will use this already have frequencies dedicated exclusively to them. In fact they have a huge amount for their exclusive use. I as a consumer have a limited number of frequencies available for my purposes. I have to share them with every other person around me.
There is absolutely no need for cellular operators to start intruding on unlicensed spectrum. If this truly is about "fair sharing of a shared asset," then when can I expect an equivalent amount of spectrum to be opened in their bands for my uses? If I have to share with them it's only fair they share with me, right?
I realize that this is completely legal by current regulations. It's probably past time to review those regulations to keep commercial operators on the parts of the spectrum they already own. If you have dedicated frequencies allocated to you, then there is no reason to spread onto shared frequencies as well.
only UNII-1 and UNII-3...no UNII-2
In other words, they are using the spectrum that people actually want since UNII-2 has limits regarding power and avoiding interference with radar.
This is the "deepthroating Microsoft" he's referring to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/228
It was a pretty stupid idea, and it isn't surprising that Linus shot it down.
I also use an ad blocker to get rid of the useless "Video Bytes" and "Slashdot Deals" junk that shows up on the main page. Who needs that checkbox when a real ad blocker can do so much more?
A clamp on ammeter? I have to imagine they are much more accurate than making your own poor man's version out of looped wire and an ancient analog VOM.
It's an issue because it's an absurdly high requirement for training.
It only takes 40 hours to get a goddamn private pilot license. And that 40 hours includes solo time.
I've been using Mediacom for about 8 years, and while they aren't terrible, they aren't great either.
When doing a speed test, I generally get faster than expected results. I pay for 50/5, and usually test around 55/6. However, during peak times I frequently have issues with Netflix and Youtube videos. These issues don't exist with other websites I've tried, and speed tests still show faster than expected results.
After getting frustrated with poor performance in the evenings, I decided to set up a VPS running an HTTP proxy. When using the proxy, all issues with Netflix and Youtube go away and I get the maximum quality available with no stuttering.
So at least in my experience, Mediacom seems to be engaging in the same shenanigans as other providers. I've noticed that at least in my area, Mediacom seems to be using AT&T as an upstream provider so this could just be AT&T screwing with things. Either way, I'm not happy that I have to go out of my way just to get a usable connection for internet video.
This study concludes there is also a bias in hiring for STEM education positions.
Oh wait, the bias here is actually significantly in favor of women. It also notes that women who took time off to raise a family were preferred over women that did not. Maybe things aren't actually as dire as you suggest.
Their job is hard (and quoting stats comparing cops to fisherman is pointless, ...
Why is using actual data on how dangerous the job is compared to other jobs pointless? Because it doesn't support your argument?
... fish don't have shotguns in the back seat)
Neither do the vast, vast majority of people.
I had heard the same thing, that particulate matter in the atmosphere had a cooling effect.
Usually when people are complaining about soot from airplanes, it's that we're dumping it on all the people living in the departure path of major airports. Which does seem to be a legitimate health concern.
Your link to mh-aerotools.de pretty clearly illustrates why this isn't going to be happening to commercial aircraft anytime soon. By making some fairly absurd assumptions about efficiency gains from changing aircraft design (and ignoring all aspects of aircraft design other than efficiency) you still need batteries that have 6x the energy density of modern technologies. Using some numbers that might actually be realistic and you'd need more like 10x the energy density.
The Cessna 150 is a pretty terrible design. To be fair, it is really old and there have been a lot of advancements in aerodynamics, as well as in materials and construction techniques that make more efficient designs easier to make. A more modern two seat aircraft would get more like 150mph ground speed at 5 gallons per hour. That's 30mpg.
I believe the issue is the FCC regulations regarding antennas apply to governments, but not private agreements with HOAs. Basically, if you signed the contract saying you can't erect an antenna, that's your problem.
Sorry, but rubycodez is 100% right here. You can not take a single study of limited substances on a single species and claim that it applies to every sweet tasting thing in humans. We have no clue by what mechanism that insulin response is triggered. They may have a good theory, but we won't know until extensive testing is done. That's the way science works. A single study may be interesting, but proof it most certainly is not.
We switched to Check_MK for monitoring. It's basically a collection of software that sits on top of Nagios.
The default disk monitoring allows alerting based on trends (full in 24hours, etc.) or thresholds based on a "magic factor." Basically it scales the thresholds so that larger disks alert at a higher percentage, adjustable in quite a few different ways to suit your tastes.
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's the FAA's job to keep planes flying and keep the people on them safe. It sure as hell is not their job to promote internet usage.
Basically the article is saying: "When you arbitrarily assign a job to a government agency, they're not very effective." Wow, I'm so glad that got cleared up. I was about ready to tell the local water works that they need to get me faster internet speeds.
Go look it up, OpenGL isn't a free "do whatever you like" setup. There is licensing for it for companies like nVidia.
I decided to do exactly that. This is from their licensing website.
The following are the currently available licenses:
Open source license, for use of the S.I.. This is a Free Software License B closely modeled on BSD, X, and Mozilla licenses.
Trademark License. for new licensees who want to use the OpenGL trademark and logo and claim conformance. This license is available free of charge if you are developing open source implementations on open source platforms. For closed source licenses or licenses on proprietary platforms, a charge will be associated with a trademark license.
Emphasis mine. There's also a note on the page that former licensees can open source their code and no longer need a license. If you're making an open source implementation, OpenGL seems pretty open.
A huge portion of that 90% has either basic or extended basic cable. Those plans typically do not require a cable box. You can't equate subscribing to cable with not using a tuner.
I currently get basic cable, and my provider sends all the local stations in HD via Clear QAM. I don't have a cable box, and if my provider forced me into getting one (along with the rental fee and $50 increase in programming fees) I'd drop cable altogether and buy an antenna.