Of course it has nothing to do with state legislatures and governors spending money like a drunken sailor in a whore house when tax receipts were temporarily boosted by a booming economy and soaring stock market. The jerks in my state spent every dime that came in to the state treasury, with no consideration for what was going to happen when the bubble burst. As far as they were concerned, it was "free money", and they wasted no time in thinking up new ways to spend it.
When you buy a calculator, you aren't just buying a generic handheld computer, you are buying a mathematical software package. I don't know about TI, but HP has invested many years of effort by HP mathematicians and engineers in designing, implementing and testing the software that runs on their calculators. That is what is valuable, not the near-obsolete hardware that the calculator is built from.
The HP-32SII also has the benefit of being allowed on many examinations that prohibit the use of more sophisticated calculators like the HP-48GX and HP-49G. Plus, it is much more compact than the average graphing calculator.
I have owned all of the calculators in question. The HP-49G may have more up-to-date software than the HP-48 series, but its fatal defect is the abominable user's manual. It's full of errors and looks like it was rushed out the door before everyone was canned or transferred. The thing is a joke. The keyboard isn't going to win any prizes either.
If I could only have one calculator, I would buy an HP-48G+ or HP-48GX. It's missing some of the features of the HP-49G, but it was the last calculator HP produced with a full set of documentation and a decent keyboard.
95% of my spam is written in Chinese, Korean and Russian. I don't think the spammers are Americans targeting an American audience. There seems to be a suitably large domestic market for spam in those countries.
If 95% of your spam is American, I would have no problem with you asking your ISP to pull the plug on the United States. Some people already do this to a limited extent, refusing email from AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo.
It's a matter of management priorities. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, hated bank robbers. If you robbed a bank, no matter how little was stolen, you could count on the FBI to make a serious effort at putting your butt in federal prison for a long time.
I'd like to see the IP traffic from these countries routed to/dev/null until they start making an effort to become good Internet citizens. I get nothing but loads of crap from South Korea, China and Russia. I'd advocate the same thing for American ISPs that show little interest in cleansing their networks of spammers, zombies and virus reservoirs.
It's the only editor that is guaranteed to be present on a UNIX system. Now that I wrote that, someone will post a counterexample. I've used old systems that predated vi, they always had/bin/ed.
Another approach is to have a long incubation period, like HIV. It slowly multiplies over a long period of time before causing symptoms.
A computer virus could wait several weeks before it nuked the hard drive.
If I wrote a virus, I would add anti-tamper features so that removing the virus would also trash the system. The virus could encrypt selected parts of the hard drive and decrypt them on-the-fly when the operating system accessed those sections of the hard drive.
The FCC used to ask for the geographic location of the station, if it wasn't obvious from the mailing address.
For example, I used to have an APO mailing address. I had to provide the FCC a description of the location of the station, Room X in Building Y on Army Base Z.
Then again, I got my amateur license when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. The FCC has eliminated or reformed many of its rules since then.
After looking at the current FCC Form 605, I found that you are correct, they do accept a P.O. Box for the mailing address.
I do know that they used to insist on a geographic address for the station. Every license application and renewal that I have filed had that language. They must have dropped the requirement since the last time I filled out the paperwork.
Triangulation isn't always that easy. The FCC and NSA can do it fairly easily, they have monitoring stations with the right sort of antenna arrays.
The FCC requires all radio stations to identify themselves with their callsign. This makes it much easier to track down sources of interference when combined with the license database.
The license database encourages accountability, and I think it should be kept a public record.
If you are running an operating system that is the digital equivalent of a crack house, may be you should be fined or ordered to disconnect it from the public Internet. Ownership of private property does not give you immunity from the law.
Before everybody goes nuts bashing the FCC, oops, too late, you should recognize that they have been put in a difficult position by Congress (Democrats and Republicans) and the courts.
Congress has told them to periodically review and rewrite FCC regulations to make sure that they are still necessary and relevant. That doesn't stop them from bashing the FCC when they don't like the result.
The courts have been striking down FCC decisions when the courts have decided that the FCC did not backup their decision with objective research and data.
Whenever a large corporation does not like the result of a FCC decision, they sue, hoping that the court will overturn the FCC's new rule.
This has turned the FCC into a punching bag for a wide variety of competing interests.
You're assuming that your Linux CD is going to find all of the hard disks in the machine. Bad assumption. What about non-standard controllers, controllers at unusual addresses, broken controllers? What if somebody removed the controller for use in another computer before they excessed it? What if the ribbon cables are missing? What if the computer was loaded up with obsolete or defective drives?
It isn't unusual for someone to cannibalize a computer for good parts and then load up the box with broken or obsolete parts before they turn it in for disposal.
The only safe way to do it is to open the case and do a physical inspection, and then physically remove all hard drives.
They can remove all hard disks before disposing of the computers and ship the hard disks to a data destruction specialist, who physically destroys the hard disks.
That is what some organizations do today.
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See http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/docs/misc/hp48gug.zip.
Of course it has nothing to do with state legislatures and governors spending money like a drunken sailor in a whore house when tax receipts were temporarily boosted by a booming economy and soaring stock market. The jerks in my state spent every dime that came in to the state treasury, with no consideration for what was going to happen when the bubble burst. As far as they were concerned, it was "free money", and they wasted no time in thinking up new ways to spend it.
I don't think a FPU would help. HP calculators use a BCD floating point format, not the binary floating point format commonly used on computers.
When you buy a calculator, you aren't just buying a generic handheld computer, you are buying a mathematical software package. I don't know about TI, but HP has invested many years of effort by HP mathematicians and engineers in designing, implementing and testing the software that runs on their calculators. That is what is valuable, not the near-obsolete hardware that the calculator is built from.
Agilent got the test and measurement stuff. HP kept the calculators and handheld computers.
The HP-32SII also has the benefit of being allowed on many examinations that prohibit the use of more sophisticated calculators like the HP-48GX and HP-49G. Plus, it is much more compact than the average graphing calculator.
If I could only have one calculator, I would buy an HP-48G+ or HP-48GX. It's missing some of the features of the HP-49G, but it was the last calculator HP produced with a full set of documentation and a decent keyboard.
If 95% of your spam is American, I would have no problem with you asking your ISP to pull the plug on the United States. Some people already do this to a limited extent, refusing email from AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo.
It's a matter of management priorities. J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI, hated bank robbers. If you robbed a bank, no matter how little was stolen, you could count on the FBI to make a serious effort at putting your butt in federal prison for a long time.
I'd like to see the IP traffic from these countries routed to /dev/null until they start making an effort to become good Internet citizens. I get nothing but loads of crap from South Korea, China and Russia. I'd advocate the same thing for American ISPs that show little interest in cleansing their networks of spammers, zombies and virus reservoirs.
The sum of $150,000 per song is based on the statutory damages allowed for willful infringement in copyright law.
It's the only editor that is guaranteed to be present on a UNIX system. Now that I wrote that, someone will post a counterexample. I've used old systems that predated vi, they always had /bin/ed.
A computer virus could wait several weeks before it nuked the hard drive.
If I wrote a virus, I would add anti-tamper features so that removing the virus would also trash the system. The virus could encrypt selected parts of the hard drive and decrypt them on-the-fly when the operating system accessed those sections of the hard drive.
If you are sufficiently paranoid, like the federal government, you can have a security officer accompany the disks and witness their destruction.
For example, I used to have an APO mailing address. I had to provide the FCC a description of the location of the station, Room X in Building Y on Army Base Z.
Then again, I got my amateur license when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. The FCC has eliminated or reformed many of its rules since then.
Neutron generator tubes, that rely on deuterium-tritium fusion to generate neutrons, have been available for decades.
I do know that they used to insist on a geographic address for the station. Every license application and renewal that I have filed had that language. They must have dropped the requirement since the last time I filled out the paperwork.
The FCC has the information, even if it isn't listed in the publicly available database. See FCC Form 605.
The FCC requires all radio stations to identify themselves with their callsign. This makes it much easier to track down sources of interference when combined with the license database.
The license database encourages accountability, and I think it should be kept a public record.
You can't get a station license for a P.O. box. The FCC insists on a geographical location.
If you are running an operating system that is the digital equivalent of a crack house, may be you should be fined or ordered to disconnect it from the public Internet. Ownership of private property does not give you immunity from the law.
Congress has told them to periodically review and rewrite FCC regulations to make sure that they are still necessary and relevant. That doesn't stop them from bashing the FCC when they don't like the result.
The courts have been striking down FCC decisions when the courts have decided that the FCC did not backup their decision with objective research and data.
Whenever a large corporation does not like the result of a FCC decision, they sue, hoping that the court will overturn the FCC's new rule.
This has turned the FCC into a punching bag for a wide variety of competing interests.
Maybe they didn't sell it. How do you know that it wasn't stolen and fenced on eBay?
It isn't unusual for someone to cannibalize a computer for good parts and then load up the box with broken or obsolete parts before they turn it in for disposal.
The only safe way to do it is to open the case and do a physical inspection, and then physically remove all hard drives.
They can remove all hard disks before disposing of the computers and ship the hard disks to a data destruction specialist, who physically destroys the hard disks. That is what some organizations do today.