Why not let the herbivores do most of the work? A carnivore does not have to hunt, it can scavenge the dead and dying. There are enough niches for many different types of animals.
The FCC has done this before with CB radios (freeband) and scanning receivers (cellular block). They forced manufacturers to design their products in such a way that they could not be subverted by the average tinkerer.
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Dedicated private networks cost money. Money that most companies will not spend unless someone is holding a gun to their head. The problem with security is that often the risks and costs of improper disclosures are dumped on third parties, not the people who were responsible for the security breach.
Nothing is "safe". Asbestos was a standard material that was generally accepted as useful and "safe enough" by the standards of the day. Cue the lawyers and public hysteria.
I'd like to get brake pads made from compressed and vitrified lawyers for my car, just to hear them squeal.
The available bandwidth on the cable is split into 6 MHz channels from about 54 MHz to about 1 GHz. Each channel can carry one analog television program or about 38 Mbps of data, which can be multiple digital television streams or IP packets destined for cable modems. Your cable modem listens to a channel and passes on any packets that are addressed to it. The upstream link uses the frequencies below 54 MHz. To allow many cable modems and digital cable set-top boxes to share the single uplink, each device is assigned a time slot during which it can transmit. This is called time division multiplexing (TDM). This is also why uplink speeds are much lower than downlink speeds.
It's the same morons who say "Why are we spending money on X when there are homeless people in the street?", or some other cause de jour. They have trouble understanding that organizations can do more than one thing at a time.
RTF seems to be popular with the U.S. Navy. I don't know if they mandate its support in Navy software. RTF has been around a long time. It doesn't seem to have caught on in the commercial marketplace.
They are also capable of producing real crap if the customer does not enforce some standards. This used to be a common problem with goods made in Japan. The Japanese government and industry setup quality assurance programs for many export goods. This helped improve the reputation of Japanese products by keeping many cheap and poorly-made products out of the international marketplace. This helped erase the widespread perception that "Made in Japan" was synonymous with cheap junk.
It depends on your application. In many cases, you want the random number source to be reproducible, and of known quality, not truly random.
For true random numbers, your best bet is a noise source that is shielded and isolated from outside influences. A simple diode circuit can be used as a noise source. See "avalanche noise".
The fact is that many urban school systems are terrible. If you are a parent with school-age children, you can either move to the suburbs or put your children in private schools. Many families can't afford to live in the city and send their children to private schools. Forced busing accelerated the process in some cities by destroying what was left of the public school system.
While it may be fun to blame everything on GM, the train system would have died with, or without, their help. The interstate highway system, the car, and the truck, made trains obsolete for everything except bulk cargo. It didn't help that many rail lines were poorly run and maintained.
The USA doesn't even give its troops armored vehicles in its war, and that doesn't seem to really rile people up (discussion of the ridiculousness of the war aside).
Every vehicle design is a compromise among cost, weight, armor, speed, fuel economy, maintenance requirements, power, cargo capacity, size, etc. The HMMWV replaced a group of unarmored vehicles, including the JEEP. There are lightly armored vehicles for mechanized infantry, like the APC and the Bradley. Their armor will stop small-arms fire and shell fragments, but not projectiles from heavier weapons or anti-tank mines. A modern RPG can penetrate over 500mm of steel. How do you protect a vehicle against that? With dismounted infantry, who are vulnerable to small-arms fire, to provide a protective screen for the vehicle. There are no easy solutions to the problem.
How about safety, simplicity, cost and noise? As a general rule, I like to keep power lines isolated from signal lines. That allows each to be optimized for a single task. It keeps noise from being coupled from the power distribution system to the transmission lines used by signals. It keeps large current flows off of cables and connectors that were not designed for power distribution. It allows the use of standard (cheap) parts that have proven performance and reliability.
Why not just drop a big nuke on the Johnson Space Center? It would have the same effect. You would kill the manned space flight program and the space station. You don't dump 15,000 people on the street and expect them to be available in a few years when, or if, your new toy gets funded and built.
That's assuming that they are not sick or injured, or freaking out about someone else that is sick or injured. It also assumes that the caller is familiar with their location.
It can be very helpful if there is an address listing on, or near, the telephone. They do something similar here with fire alarms. There is a placard that says to call 911 and lists the address.
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Why not let the herbivores do most of the work? A carnivore does not have to hunt, it can scavenge the dead and dying. There are enough niches for many different types of animals.
Cite? People eat raw meat all the time without getting sick.
The FCC has done this before with CB radios (freeband) and scanning receivers (cellular block). They forced manufacturers to design their products in such a way that they could not be subverted by the average tinkerer.
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Your answer implies the presence of significant digits that don't exist in the original measurement.
Dedicated private networks cost money. Money that most companies will not spend unless someone is holding a gun to their head. The problem with security is that often the risks and costs of improper disclosures are dumped on third parties, not the people who were responsible for the security breach.
I'd like to get brake pads made from compressed and vitrified lawyers for my car, just to hear them squeal.
The available bandwidth on the cable is split into 6 MHz channels from about 54 MHz to about 1 GHz. Each channel can carry one analog television program or about 38 Mbps of data, which can be multiple digital television streams or IP packets destined for cable modems. Your cable modem listens to a channel and passes on any packets that are addressed to it. The upstream link uses the frequencies below 54 MHz. To allow many cable modems and digital cable set-top boxes to share the single uplink, each device is assigned a time slot during which it can transmit. This is called time division multiplexing (TDM). This is also why uplink speeds are much lower than downlink speeds.
We wouldn't want to retrain them, that would cost money. Better for the company to just dump them on the street.
It's the same morons who say "Why are we spending money on X when there are homeless people in the street?", or some other cause de jour. They have trouble understanding that organizations can do more than one thing at a time.
I'm looking for sailors.
RTF seems to be popular with the U.S. Navy. I don't know if they mandate its support in Navy software. RTF has been around a long time. It doesn't seem to have caught on in the commercial marketplace.
All I have to do is double-click on the file's icon. They are easy to deal with on a Mac. Plus, I don't have to have a Postscript printer.
They are also capable of producing real crap if the customer does not enforce some standards. This used to be a common problem with goods made in Japan. The Japanese government and industry setup quality assurance programs for many export goods. This helped improve the reputation of Japanese products by keeping many cheap and poorly-made products out of the international marketplace. This helped erase the widespread perception that "Made in Japan" was synonymous with cheap junk.
For true random numbers, your best bet is a noise source that is shielded and isolated from outside influences. A simple diode circuit can be used as a noise source. See "avalanche noise".
The fact is that many urban school systems are terrible. If you are a parent with school-age children, you can either move to the suburbs or put your children in private schools. Many families can't afford to live in the city and send their children to private schools. Forced busing accelerated the process in some cities by destroying what was left of the public school system.
While it may be fun to blame everything on GM, the train system would have died with, or without, their help. The interstate highway system, the car, and the truck, made trains obsolete for everything except bulk cargo. It didn't help that many rail lines were poorly run and maintained.
The RIAA is a trade association. It does not pay a nickel to recording artists.
Every vehicle design is a compromise among cost, weight, armor, speed, fuel economy, maintenance requirements, power, cargo capacity, size, etc. The HMMWV replaced a group of unarmored vehicles, including the JEEP. There are lightly armored vehicles for mechanized infantry, like the APC and the Bradley. Their armor will stop small-arms fire and shell fragments, but not projectiles from heavier weapons or anti-tank mines. A modern RPG can penetrate over 500mm of steel. How do you protect a vehicle against that? With dismounted infantry, who are vulnerable to small-arms fire, to provide a protective screen for the vehicle. There are no easy solutions to the problem.
How about safety, simplicity, cost and noise? As a general rule, I like to keep power lines isolated from signal lines. That allows each to be optimized for a single task. It keeps noise from being coupled from the power distribution system to the transmission lines used by signals. It keeps large current flows off of cables and connectors that were not designed for power distribution. It allows the use of standard (cheap) parts that have proven performance and reliability.
Like NASA's going to take advice on acceptable risk from "dethboy"?
Why not just drop a big nuke on the Johnson Space Center? It would have the same effect. You would kill the manned space flight program and the space station. You don't dump 15,000 people on the street and expect them to be available in a few years when, or if, your new toy gets funded and built.
While there are certain specialized applications where "power over X" is convenient, it shouldn't be used when normal power is available.
It can be very helpful if there is an address listing on, or near, the telephone. They do something similar here with fire alarms. There is a placard that says to call 911 and lists the address.
If were lucky, they can isolate the disease and use it to infect the cane toads in Australia. Exploding poisonous toads!