The advantage of physical destruction is that you don't have to care about who made it, the model number, the interface, jumper settings, spare blocks and tracks, dead heads, fried electronics, and anything else that might prevent you from erasing everything on the drive. Hulk smash drive. Problem solved.
A couple of people are killed every year because they didn't follow guidelines and had their internal organs cooked.
Cite? I've heard these sea stories for decades. The only factual reports of injuries that I've read involve RF burns and increases in rates of cataracts.
I've discovered, on several occasions, that a visible ham radio antenna will cause large numbers of problems with the television sets and hi-fi systems of my neighbors, even when the antenna has never been connected to a transmitter. Many of the complainants are intelligent people, but the logic center of their brain shuts down when they see an unusual antenna.
Insightful, my butt. The number of systems with enough ERP to hurt birds or humans is very small. It's things like military search radars and Deep Space Network ground stations. Your typical point-to-point microwave relay system isn't running any more power than a small light bulb. Wi-Fi uses S-band, which isn't any more dangerous than other microwave frequencies. It also runs at very low power,
To be fair, the coupon program created the market for cheap converter boxes. Before that, it was often difficult to find converter boxes, and the prices were much higher.
Get a better dictionary. "Few" does not mean thousands. Hamas and other militants have fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel. Be glad that you do not live in Siderot, where every time the alarm sounds, you have 15 seconds to get to a shelter.
Why don't we string up the "term life insurance broker in Charlotte, North Carolina" who paid for this crap? Any business that pays spammers to promote their business should face criminal charges and civil damages.
Bullshit. I work at a large federal facility and they have explicitly said in a policy memo that photography is permitted on and around the facility. The only exception is for secure areas where classified information is stored or handled. In those cases, the secure area is posted with big signs that cite the relevant federal law and the prohibited activities.
Back when all the railroads were privately owned, they had railway police that had jurisdiction over railroad property. They are real police, not rent-a-cops. Their existence and police powers are authorized by state and federal law. See Wikipedia.
It's a program that I used to setup and offload data from a portable data acquisition device. I plug a special RS-232 serial cable into the computer and the data acquisition device, and then run the program to offload the collected data and set it up for another run. It also has some features that let me analyze and graph the data, and export it to other programs.
I thought that it dropped support for 16-bit Windows applications. That's a problem for those of us that have some old programs that were never updated to run in 32-bit mode.
It "fell apart" because a wing was severely damaged. The same thing happens in any high-performance aircraft when you lose aerodynamic stability, either from structural failure, control system malfunction, or pilot error. It isn't a failure of structural engineering.
I think the idea is that in a more survivable accident, an improved seat and restraint system, and better procedures, could make the difference between life and death. Look at the improvements that have been made in race cars over the years, like head restraint systems. Race car drivers are much more likely to survive a crash than in the old days. The same is true for high-performance military aircraft. You learn what you can from the fatalities, and try to fix the problems exposed by the accident investigation.
Federal prison? The federal government does investigate and prosecute people who violate export control laws. Try buying some surplus aircraft parts and shipping them to Iran.
The scary thing isn't the impact site, or the earthquakes, or the monster tidal waves. It's when the ejecta starts reentering the atmosphere and surface temperatures reach 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Maybe because they felt no obligation to be compatible with a device that was used by relatively few people. I think they made the right choice. A telephone is not a desk calculator.
Leap years are a separate issue. They keep the calendar in sync with the seasons. Leap seconds keep our clocks in sync with the apparent positions of the Sun and stars.
NTP isn't good enough for many systems. Where I work, millisecond level accuracy and resolution is the bare minimum. Some applications require microsecond level accuracy and resolution. That's why we have dedicated timing systems and timing distribution systems. NTP is used on systems, like general purpose PCs, that don't have a requirement for accurate time.
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I wouldn't bet on it. I've seen devices that could read, but not format, both FAT16 and FAT32.
The early versions of SCSI were limited to a 21-bit logical block address. This was later extended to 32 and 64 bits. That should last for a while.
The advantage of physical destruction is that you don't have to care about who made it, the model number, the interface, jumper settings, spare blocks and tracks, dead heads, fried electronics, and anything else that might prevent you from erasing everything on the drive. Hulk smash drive. Problem solved.
Everything generates EM radiation, even your own body.
Cite? I've heard these sea stories for decades. The only factual reports of injuries that I've read involve RF burns and increases in rates of cataracts.
I've discovered, on several occasions, that a visible ham radio antenna will cause large numbers of problems with the television sets and hi-fi systems of my neighbors, even when the antenna has never been connected to a transmitter. Many of the complainants are intelligent people, but the logic center of their brain shuts down when they see an unusual antenna.
Insightful, my butt. The number of systems with enough ERP to hurt birds or humans is very small. It's things like military search radars and Deep Space Network ground stations. Your typical point-to-point microwave relay system isn't running any more power than a small light bulb. Wi-Fi uses S-band, which isn't any more dangerous than other microwave frequencies. It also runs at very low power,
To be fair, the coupon program created the market for cheap converter boxes. Before that, it was often difficult to find converter boxes, and the prices were much higher.
Get a better dictionary. "Few" does not mean thousands. Hamas and other militants have fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel. Be glad that you do not live in Siderot, where every time the alarm sounds, you have 15 seconds to get to a shelter.
That's no different than many other crimes. We don't ignore them because there's a chance that someone made a false accusation.
Why don't we string up the "term life insurance broker in Charlotte, North Carolina" who paid for this crap? Any business that pays spammers to promote their business should face criminal charges and civil damages.
Bullshit. I work at a large federal facility and they have explicitly said in a policy memo that photography is permitted on and around the facility. The only exception is for secure areas where classified information is stored or handled. In those cases, the secure area is posted with big signs that cite the relevant federal law and the prohibited activities.
Back when all the railroads were privately owned, they had railway police that had jurisdiction over railroad property. They are real police, not rent-a-cops. Their existence and police powers are authorized by state and federal law. See Wikipedia.
It's a program that I used to setup and offload data from a portable data acquisition device. I plug a special RS-232 serial cable into the computer and the data acquisition device, and then run the program to offload the collected data and set it up for another run. It also has some features that let me analyze and graph the data, and export it to other programs.
I thought that it dropped support for 16-bit Windows applications. That's a problem for those of us that have some old programs that were never updated to run in 32-bit mode.
Simple, she's better than you are. What have you done for the world, or the UK?
It "fell apart" because a wing was severely damaged. The same thing happens in any high-performance aircraft when you lose aerodynamic stability, either from structural failure, control system malfunction, or pilot error. It isn't a failure of structural engineering.
I think the idea is that in a more survivable accident, an improved seat and restraint system, and better procedures, could make the difference between life and death. Look at the improvements that have been made in race cars over the years, like head restraint systems. Race car drivers are much more likely to survive a crash than in the old days. The same is true for high-performance military aircraft. You learn what you can from the fatalities, and try to fix the problems exposed by the accident investigation.
That's what many people said about scrap metal and oil exports to Japan before December 7th, 1941.
Federal prison? The federal government does investigate and prosecute people who violate export control laws. Try buying some surplus aircraft parts and shipping them to Iran.
The scary thing isn't the impact site, or the earthquakes, or the monster tidal waves. It's when the ejecta starts reentering the atmosphere and surface temperatures reach 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.
They'll just bring along a tanker of barbecue sauce.
Maybe because they felt no obligation to be compatible with a device that was used by relatively few people. I think they made the right choice. A telephone is not a desk calculator.
Leap years are a separate issue. They keep the calendar in sync with the seasons. Leap seconds keep our clocks in sync with the apparent positions of the Sun and stars.
NTP isn't good enough for many systems. Where I work, millisecond level accuracy and resolution is the bare minimum. Some applications require microsecond level accuracy and resolution. That's why we have dedicated timing systems and timing distribution systems. NTP is used on systems, like general purpose PCs, that don't have a requirement for accurate time.