The Navy has underwater sound surveillance networks that have been in place for decades. I believe they have a program for making declassified data available to scientists.
That used to be the long-standing policy of the FCC, until the mobile phone companies lobbied Congress to change the law, rather than fix the security vulnerabilities of AMPS.
The plan is that by the time the cutoff date arrives, there will be plenty of cheap ATSC to NTSC converter boxes available for people who still have NTSC receivers. It will work like a cable converter box. It will have an antenna input and a channel 2/3 RF output and probably a baseband video output.
The cable company can convert the ATSC (HDTV) signal to NTSC (analog) and put it on their cable system.
My cable system already does this. My local PBS station transmits multiple simultaneous programs on their digital transmitter. The cable system demultiplexes and decodes the signals, converts them to analog, and puts them on a set of cable channels.
I would argue that the isolationist movement in the USA was a direct result of the carnage and insanity of World War I. It didn't help that British and American propaganda from the period had been publicly exposed as being full of lies and fabrications. The problem was that World War II was not a repeat of World War I.
Is the restriction legally enforceable? I've seen copyright notices in books published in the UK that attempt to assert rights that don't exist in the USA.
Why should textbooks for standard subjects, say calculus and physics, cost more than a Dover paperback? These are subjects that change very little from year to year. Why not have a standard set of textbooks for these subjects and keep printing them for decades, without gratuitous changes to create new editions.
I inherited a friend's old college textbooks from the 1960s and I was surprised at how small they were. They were the size of normal hardcover books, not the gargantuan monstrosities that I see in the local college bookstore.
There is stuff that remains classified because making it public would embarrass or alienate a foreign government or leader. You might not care about it but the State Department doesn't want to create new problems.
There are many WWII documents related to the technical aspects of cryptanalysis that are still classified. The NSA has declassified a lot of material from that era and up through the 1950s, such as the Venona program.
Maybe it's because they are more concerned about getting paid for past contracts and winning new contracts than the welfare of the Iraqi people and the security of the Middle East.
The ACLU defends all of the constitution, well, except for the second amendment, and state's rights, and the rights of unborn children, and anything else that conflicts with their beliefs.
I'm a long-time ACLU (and NRA) member. The ACLU does some good work but they are not exactly consistent in what parts of the constitution they support. Too many of the leaders and members are liberal Democrats.
They do 100% QA on some of their products. Is that concept too difficult for you? If they have a reason, like customer requirements, and a product with some inherent variability, they can grade their production.
I'm not a hard drive engineer. The general idea is that you pick some parameters that are correlated to the desired goal, precision, high performance, reliability, etc. For a hard drive, you might look at total correctable and uncorrectable errors on the platters, signal/noise margins on the heads, motor speed regulation, mechanical tolerances on moving parts, vibration/noise levels. You then grade the drives during production and testing into different categories. The best drives can be reserved for priority contracts and customers. The average drives can be sold to normal customers. The worst drives can be sold to companies like Tandy, who prefer cheap to good.
For many "standard parts", you can pay the manufacturer extra money to cherry pick the best parts from the production line. This has been a common practice for decades.
When you dial '1', it isn't the country code. It's an indication to the switch that you are dialing a 10-digit number. Back in the old days, when switches were built from relays, the leading '1' would route the following digits to a toll switch.
To direct dial an international call, you dial the international direct dial prefix (011 in the USA), the country code, and the rest of the number.
I still have an Imation SuperDisk 120MB drive. It uses magnetic media with an optical servo track. The disk are about the same size as a 3.5" floppy. I've never had any reliability problems with the drive or the media. Imation stopped making the drives but you can still buy the media. The SuperDisk was a major improvement over the 3.5" floppy, like that is saying much. Compaq pushed them for a while but they never became standard.
They are already in use. I've seen them in medical equipment and in workstations used for data analysis. One of their advantages over CD-R and DVD-R is that they can be treated like a normal disk. There is no burning, finalizing, multiple sessions, etc.
If the RIAA is going to hold the average citizen to such a high standard, I propose that a new law be passed that subjects everyone in the music industry to a mandatory annual IRS tax compliance audit. A tax compliance audit is the audit that requires you to provide documentary proof for every item on your tax return.
The rugged Shopping Buddy computers are manufactured by Symbol Technologies Inc. of Holtsville, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Several local grocery stores have self-checkout lanes. I tried them a few times and was disappointed. Now I look for the lane that still has a human cashier. The cashier, who does this job for 8 hours a day, is much faster at scanning, ringing up produce, bagging and completing the order. Plus, it's a human being, not some Rube Goldberg contraption from Hell.
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Bureaucrats hate paper trails. It's very easy to blow off a phone call. A written report has to be handled more carefully.
The Navy has underwater sound surveillance networks that have been in place for decades. I believe they have a program for making declassified data available to scientists.
The plane isn't going to be flying very long if its engines stall from lack of oxygen.
You can start practicing for this task by standing in front of a speeding freight train. Halt! I tell you! Halt!
That used to be the long-standing policy of the FCC, until the mobile phone companies lobbied Congress to change the law, rather than fix the security vulnerabilities of AMPS.
The plan is that by the time the cutoff date arrives, there will be plenty of cheap ATSC to NTSC converter boxes available for people who still have NTSC receivers. It will work like a cable converter box. It will have an antenna input and a channel 2/3 RF output and probably a baseband video output.
My cable system already does this. My local PBS station transmits multiple simultaneous programs on their digital transmitter. The cable system demultiplexes and decodes the signals, converts them to analog, and puts them on a set of cable channels.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
-- Ernest Rutherford
I would argue that the isolationist movement in the USA was a direct result of the carnage and insanity of World War I. It didn't help that British and American propaganda from the period had been publicly exposed as being full of lies and fabrications. The problem was that World War II was not a repeat of World War I.
Is the restriction legally enforceable? I've seen copyright notices in books published in the UK that attempt to assert rights that don't exist in the USA.
I inherited a friend's old college textbooks from the 1960s and I was surprised at how small they were. They were the size of normal hardcover books, not the gargantuan monstrosities that I see in the local college bookstore.
There is stuff that remains classified because making it public would embarrass or alienate a foreign government or leader. You might not care about it but the State Department doesn't want to create new problems.
There are many WWII documents related to the technical aspects of cryptanalysis that are still classified. The NSA has declassified a lot of material from that era and up through the 1950s, such as the Venona program.
Maybe it's because they are more concerned about getting paid for past contracts and winning new contracts than the welfare of the Iraqi people and the security of the Middle East.
I'm a long-time ACLU (and NRA) member. The ACLU does some good work but they are not exactly consistent in what parts of the constitution they support. Too many of the leaders and members are liberal Democrats.
They do 100% QA on some of their products. Is that concept too difficult for you? If they have a reason, like customer requirements, and a product with some inherent variability, they can grade their production.
Is RCA a "fantasy factory"? How about Ampex? How about Motorola?
I'm not a hard drive engineer. The general idea is that you pick some parameters that are correlated to the desired goal, precision, high performance, reliability, etc. For a hard drive, you might look at total correctable and uncorrectable errors on the platters, signal/noise margins on the heads, motor speed regulation, mechanical tolerances on moving parts, vibration/noise levels. You then grade the drives during production and testing into different categories. The best drives can be reserved for priority contracts and customers. The average drives can be sold to normal customers. The worst drives can be sold to companies like Tandy, who prefer cheap to good.
For many "standard parts", you can pay the manufacturer extra money to cherry pick the best parts from the production line. This has been a common practice for decades.
To direct dial an international call, you dial the international direct dial prefix (011 in the USA), the country code, and the rest of the number.
I still have an Imation SuperDisk 120MB drive. It uses magnetic media with an optical servo track. The disk are about the same size as a 3.5" floppy. I've never had any reliability problems with the drive or the media. Imation stopped making the drives but you can still buy the media. The SuperDisk was a major improvement over the 3.5" floppy, like that is saying much. Compaq pushed them for a while but they never became standard.
They are already in use. I've seen them in medical equipment and in workstations used for data analysis. One of their advantages over CD-R and DVD-R is that they can be treated like a normal disk. There is no burning, finalizing, multiple sessions, etc.
If the RIAA is going to hold the average citizen to such a high standard, I propose that a new law be passed that subjects everyone in the music industry to a mandatory annual IRS tax compliance audit. A tax compliance audit is the audit that requires you to provide documentary proof for every item on your tax return.
The rugged Shopping Buddy computers are manufactured by Symbol Technologies Inc. of Holtsville, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Several local grocery stores have self-checkout lanes. I tried them a few times and was disappointed. Now I look for the lane that still has a human cashier. The cashier, who does this job for 8 hours a day, is much faster at scanning, ringing up produce, bagging and completing the order. Plus, it's a human being, not some Rube Goldberg contraption from Hell.