You forgot the part where the Germans tattooed the message on the scalp of an young Austrian corporal, A. Schickelgruber, let his hair grow out and sent him to Mexico via the German submarine U-571. The British destroyer HMS "Two Sheds" Jackson depth charged the submarine and forced it to the surface. An alert Royal Navy lieutenant, Alfred Hill, noticed the tattoo and covertly made a transcription of it for RN Intelligence. The crew of the U-571 was turned over to the Mexican authorities for repatriation. The message was decoded by British codebreakers and passed to the Foreign Office. Prime Minister Robert Borden passed the decoded message on to the Americans.
I liked the "acid will screw up your chromosomes and your kids will look like the creature from the black lagoon" meme. Excuse me while I stare at the Sun, put the baby in the microwave and practice flying off the roof.
The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Dissenting Opinion
Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 US 1, 37 (1949)
No, because they can legally fire you for almost anything except the protected categories of race, religion, gender etc. It's called "at will" employment.
The clariity of the medium is irrelevant. What you should be concerned about is the BER (bit error rate) of the communication link. The BER is dependant on the signal-to-noise ratio, type of modulation used and some other factors. For digital transmission systems with an adequate signal-to-noise ratio, the BER will be extremely small. A few dB of path loss added or subtracted will not change the BER by a significant amount. This means that as long as the communications link, in this case an optical cable and associated circuitry, has an adequate signal-to-noise ratio, the choice of material for the cable is irrelevant.
Who cares if it is plastic or glass? Do you think the photons care? Bits is bits.
The practitioners of audiophile voodoo probably will insist that they can hear the difference between plastic and their $5000 glass cables, made by Buddhist monks in Tibet.
Get rid of the fan. I would like to see a system that used heat pipes and a large, convection cooled heatsink. I've seen this done with tactical military radio systems. The electronics are inside a waterproof box and the heat is conducted to a large cast aluminum heatsink on the outside of the box.
Influenza kills 10-40 thousand people per year in the United States. It may not be a big deal if you are young and healthy, but it is a serious illness for many people.
I use ADC/DAC I/O cards to digitize ionospheric sounder data recorded on analog tapes so that it can be processed on a computer. Many people use these cards to log data from experiments and to monitor and control industrial processes. These are not "sound cards" but it would be trivial to configure one to behave like a simple sound card. Is the RIAA going to demand that all ADC/DAC I/O cards contain copy protection circuits? Sorry about that oil refinery blowing up, the I/O card shut down after it falsely detected a copy protection watermark in the signal from the cat cracker pressure sensor.
What a bunch of losers, everyone should know about shift-right-click, it's plainly described in the Windows User's Manual. Oh wait, there is no user's manual. Microsoft, being so enviromentally sensitive, doesn't want to burden the end user with useless frills like documentation.
The USA has not violated the ABM treaty, unlike the Russians (Krasnoyarsk phased-array radar). The USA has discussed withdrawing from the treaty, which is provided for in the treaty.
The hydrogen-oxygen fireball didn't destroy Challenger, it was destroyed by the aerodynamic forces that occurred when the external tank disintegrated and the orbiter lost attitude control. At those speeds, any loss of control is likely to be catastrophic.
The SNAP-27 was used on the Apollo missions to power the ALSEP packages that were left on the Moon. It had a Pu-238 core, lots of thermocouples, and an external heat radiator. It was inefficient by conventional power generation standards, but it had no moving parts or working fluids.
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Another possibility would be to use some of the technology that is used to determine the orbital elements and positions of satellites. The base station can transmit a carrier modulated with a PN code or ranging tones. The cell phone modulates its transmitter with the output of its receiver. The base station can use the cell phone's signal to determine the range and doppler (relative speed) of the cell phone.
I see one big problem with using GPS. It only works when you have a clear view of the sky. It doesn't work inside buildings or other places where the view is obstructed.
911 service can also be screwed up by PBX systems. I know of several cases where someone called 911 and the ambulance responded to the company headquarters building, where the PBX was located, instead of the building where the emergency occurred.
I don't mind clicking on a banner ad if it is advertising something interesting or useful. The problem is that very few banner ads meet those requirements. The current banner ad that I am looking at is for a "Penguin Computing rack mount server". I suppose that it is somewhat targeted, given the demographics of slashdot. The problem is that I am not looking to buy a rack mount server, and even if I was, why should I consider buying their server? Why should I click on their banner ad?
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You forgot the part where the Germans tattooed the message on the scalp of an young Austrian corporal, A. Schickelgruber, let his hair grow out and sent him to Mexico via the German submarine U-571. The British destroyer HMS "Two Sheds" Jackson depth charged the submarine and forced it to the surface. An alert Royal Navy lieutenant, Alfred Hill, noticed the tattoo and covertly made a transcription of it for RN Intelligence. The crew of the U-571 was turned over to the Mexican authorities for repatriation. The message was decoded by British codebreakers and passed to the Foreign Office. Prime Minister Robert Borden passed the decoded message on to the Americans.
I liked the "acid will screw up your chromosomes and your kids will look like the creature from the black lagoon" meme. Excuse me while I stare at the Sun, put the baby in the microwave and practice flying off the roof.
And how many stone do you weigh?
Dissenting Opinion
Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 US 1, 37 (1949)
No, because they can legally fire you for almost anything except the protected categories of race, religion, gender etc. It's called "at will" employment.
The clariity of the medium is irrelevant. What you should be concerned about is the BER (bit error rate) of the communication link. The BER is dependant on the signal-to-noise ratio, type of modulation used and some other factors. For digital transmission systems with an adequate signal-to-noise ratio, the BER will be extremely small. A few dB of path loss added or subtracted will not change the BER by a significant amount. This means that as long as the communications link, in this case an optical cable and associated circuitry, has an adequate signal-to-noise ratio, the choice of material for the cable is irrelevant.
The practitioners of audiophile voodoo probably will insist that they can hear the difference between plastic and their $5000 glass cables, made by Buddhist monks in Tibet.
Get rid of the fan. I would like to see a system that used heat pipes and a large, convection cooled heatsink. I've seen this done with tactical military radio systems. The electronics are inside a waterproof box and the heat is conducted to a large cast aluminum heatsink on the outside of the box.
Influenza kills 10-40 thousand people per year in the United States. It may not be a big deal if you are young and healthy, but it is a serious illness for many people.
Communications engineers deal with bits or symbols, not bytes. In that context, kilo and mega are almost always the normal SI meanings (10^n).
I wouldn't bet on it. My limited experience with security audits has been that the security people want to see the source code for everything.
I use ADC/DAC I/O cards to digitize ionospheric sounder data recorded on analog tapes so that it can be processed on a computer. Many people use these cards to log data from experiments and to monitor and control industrial processes. These are not "sound cards" but it would be trivial to configure one to behave like a simple sound card. Is the RIAA going to demand that all ADC/DAC I/O cards contain copy protection circuits? Sorry about that oil refinery blowing up, the I/O card shut down after it falsely detected a copy protection watermark in the signal from the cat cracker pressure sensor.
What a bunch of losers, everyone should know about shift-right-click, it's plainly described in the Windows User's Manual. Oh wait, there is no user's manual. Microsoft, being so enviromentally sensitive, doesn't want to burden the end user with useless frills like documentation.
NASCAR would like to have some drivers survive to race next season.
The USA has not violated the ABM treaty, unlike the Russians (Krasnoyarsk phased-array radar). The USA has discussed withdrawing from the treaty, which is provided for in the treaty.
The hydrogen-oxygen fireball didn't destroy Challenger, it was destroyed by the aerodynamic forces that occurred when the external tank disintegrated and the orbiter lost attitude control. At those speeds, any loss of control is likely to be catastrophic.
There are international treaties, not laws. A treaty only applies to the countries that have signed it.
The SNAP-27 was used on the Apollo missions to power the ALSEP packages that were left on the Moon. It had a Pu-238 core, lots of thermocouples, and an external heat radiator. It was inefficient by conventional power generation standards, but it had no moving parts or working fluids.
Another possibility would be to use some of the technology that is used to determine the orbital elements and positions of satellites. The base station can transmit a carrier modulated with a PN code or ranging tones. The cell phone modulates its transmitter with the output of its receiver. The base station can use the cell phone's signal to determine the range and doppler (relative speed) of the cell phone.
911 service can also be screwed up by PBX systems. I know of several cases where someone called 911 and the ambulance responded to the company headquarters building, where the PBX was located, instead of the building where the emergency occurred.
Is he related to Mr. Clete, secretary of the Musicians' Guild?
I've noticed weird errors on that home page over the last week, which made me wonder if Excite was imploding.
I don't mind clicking on a banner ad if it is advertising something interesting or useful. The problem is that very few banner ads meet those requirements. The current banner ad that I am looking at is for a "Penguin Computing rack mount server". I suppose that it is somewhat targeted, given the demographics of slashdot. The problem is that I am not looking to buy a rack mount server, and even if I was, why should I consider buying their server? Why should I click on their banner ad?
Some techniques that have been used in the past:
- Execute the criminal and all of his/her family members.
- Destroy the criminal's village, including all structures and residents.
Would these be effective in the modern world?It's shorthand for the number of the beast.