Many drunk drivers are not "obviously drunk". They can behave normally, even though their reflexes and judgement are substantially impaired. Are you going to give your friends a roadside sobriety test every time you get in their car?
Mechanical lever voting machines were widely used in the United States during the 20th century. They had their own set of problems and could also be manipulated by unscrupulous election officials.
The United States has a long and glorious history of election tampering, even when paper ballots were the norm. If you can't think of multiple ways to tamper with paper ballots, you don't have a very good imagination or sense of history. Many of the most notorious political machines used paper ballots for their elections.
I voted in Prince George's County and everything appeared to be working smoothly. The only change that I noticed was that the printed voter rolls had been replaced with some sort of machine. They asked me to fill out a short paper form with entries for name, date of birth, and party affiliation.
The idea that this was some sort of Republican conspiracy is comical. Montgomery County and Prince George's County have been firmly under Democratic control for a very long time. If they screwed the pooch, they only have themselves to blame.
The Montgomery Bus Company was owned by National City Lines, Inc. of Chicago, not the City of Montgomery. Privately owned bus companies used to be the norm in the United States.
It's complex system. You often see similar issues with modern jet aircraft. There are so many things than can degrade or fail that it is unusual for 100% of the systems to be working perfectly. You end up making a list of what systems must be working before takeoff. That's also why there are redundant systems. You don't want to be in a situation where you are one failure away from a catastrophe. You don't want to be running on a single fuel cell. With two fuel cells, you can lose one, abort the mission and safely return to Earth. With three fuel cells, you can lose one and safely continue the mission.
That depends on how it's being licensed to PC software vendors. The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD people can insist that any software video players on PCs only support HDCP-compliant hardware, even if you don't need it for a video player running on a game console.
What makes you think they've "dropped the XBox 1 like a hot potato?"
The problem is that they have stopped selling the hardware. I have a broken xbox that I would like to replace with a new xbox. I can't find anyone that has them in stock. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on an xbox 360, which has limited compatibility with my collection of xbox games. Besides, I don't have an HDTV, so why should I pay for HD capabilities?
The problem is maturity and training. I've run into more than a few "loss prevention specialists" who acted like juiced-up high school football players who've watched too many cop shows on television. I wouldn't trust them to mop the floor, let alone detain a suspected shoplifter. People have been killed and seriously injured while being detained by people who have more testosterone than brains. I'd rsther see stores hire off-duty cops or other people who have been properly trained in the law and the use of force.
They were doing this during World War II, using the unique characteristics and variations of transmitters to "fingerprint" them. Similar things were done with the way radio operators send morse code to help detect spies that had been compromised.
Why not, I've seen old films of bicycle and motorcycle infantry troops in Europe during World War II. Some modern scouts use militarized dirt bikes and things that look like mutant dune buggies.
Lack of standards. Joe Firefighter walks in to your building. Is he using VHF-LO, VHF-HI, UHF, T-Band, 800 MHz? Is it analog or digital? Is it conventional or trunked? If trunked, which proprietary trunking system do they use? To make things worse, the feds usually use frequency bands that are reserved for the federal government, and are incompatible with the frequency bands used by state and local governments.
The problem is that you aren't just dealing with the federal government, you have to deal with a multitude of federal, stste, county, city, town and local agencies. All of which have their own needs, priorities, funding issues and politics. In many cases, they aren't used to cooperating with each other. You usually end up with a bunch of systems that can't communicate with each other. Most of this could be solved with better radio technology and adherence to open standards, but who is going to foot the bill for the new hardware?
That's why you hire an experienced radio engineer to do a study of the proposed system and the costs and construction requirements for the desired level of coverage. There's nothing wrong with 800 MHz as long as you recognize that it takes more base stations to get the same level of coverage as an existing VHF/UHF system. All systems have dead spots.
How many 70 year olds do you know that have very liberal attitudes towards love or hell, how many of them wear their hair longer than shoulder length? I can't remember the last time I saw an old woman who did not have very short, permed hair (and I live in Florida, so believe me when I say that I see a *lot* of little old women.)
It's the same reason that you don't see large numbers of 70 year olds in the Ironman Triathlon, biology. As you get older, your hair tends to thin out and get weaker. That's much of why shorter cuts are popular.
Where I've worked, what Microsoft is calling a "beta" or "release candidate" would be considered an alpha release. Beta releases are supposed to be feature complete, but in need of testing and debugging.
Interlaced and progressive scan displays are not directly comparable. See Why Do We Interlace?. Using the numbers in that article, 1080i is equivalent to 648p. That's why many people prefer 720p to 1080i. There's no free lunch.
Don't underestimate the ability of a store to screw up a demo. I saw a blu-ray player being demonstrated at a local Best Buy store. It looked terrible, even worse than a well-mastered DVD. Plus, the player appeared to be slow and buggy.
The courts often throw out disclaimers. An insurance company can't ignore state law by just writing a clever disclaimer and adding it to their contracts.
I use EMC Retrospect to backup Windows XP and Mac OS X systems to DVD. It's easy to use and the price is reasonable. It doesn't meet all your requirements but I don't think you will find free software that does. The problem is that it takes a lot of work to write software that supports all or most of the backup devices on the market. In an ideal world, the operating system would have fully functional device drivers for tapes and CD/DVD burners. In the real world (Windows XP), these have to be written and supported by the people who write the backup software.
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Many drunk drivers are not "obviously drunk". They can behave normally, even though their reflexes and judgement are substantially impaired. Are you going to give your friends a roadside sobriety test every time you get in their car?
Mechanical lever voting machines were widely used in the United States during the 20th century. They had their own set of problems and could also be manipulated by unscrupulous election officials.
The United States has a long and glorious history of election tampering, even when paper ballots were the norm. If you can't think of multiple ways to tamper with paper ballots, you don't have a very good imagination or sense of history. Many of the most notorious political machines used paper ballots for their elections.
The idea that this was some sort of Republican conspiracy is comical. Montgomery County and Prince George's County have been firmly under Democratic control for a very long time. If they screwed the pooch, they only have themselves to blame.
The Montgomery Bus Company was owned by National City Lines, Inc. of Chicago, not the City of Montgomery. Privately owned bus companies used to be the norm in the United States.
Look at the contents of your average trash can. It's full of materials that will produce a surplus of energy when burned.
If your neighbor complains too much, you've got an ideal device to dispose of the body :-).
I'm not aware of any modern hard drive that will survive erasure of the embedded servo data.
Second, I don't think you can get bulk erasers that work for modern harddrives. The magnetic fiel strenght may just be too large.
You can, they just wont be cheap or small. See the NSA Degausser Evaluated Products List (PDF).
In many places, it's to make efficient use of the school buses.
It's complex system. You often see similar issues with modern jet aircraft. There are so many things than can degrade or fail that it is unusual for 100% of the systems to be working perfectly. You end up making a list of what systems must be working before takeoff. That's also why there are redundant systems. You don't want to be in a situation where you are one failure away from a catastrophe. You don't want to be running on a single fuel cell. With two fuel cells, you can lose one, abort the mission and safely return to Earth. With three fuel cells, you can lose one and safely continue the mission.
That depends on how it's being licensed to PC software vendors. The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD people can insist that any software video players on PCs only support HDCP-compliant hardware, even if you don't need it for a video player running on a game console.
The problem is that they have stopped selling the hardware. I have a broken xbox that I would like to replace with a new xbox. I can't find anyone that has them in stock. I don't want to spend a bunch of money on an xbox 360, which has limited compatibility with my collection of xbox games. Besides, I don't have an HDTV, so why should I pay for HD capabilities?
The problem is maturity and training. I've run into more than a few "loss prevention specialists" who acted like juiced-up high school football players who've watched too many cop shows on television. I wouldn't trust them to mop the floor, let alone detain a suspected shoplifter. People have been killed and seriously injured while being detained by people who have more testosterone than brains. I'd rsther see stores hire off-duty cops or other people who have been properly trained in the law and the use of force.
They were doing this during World War II, using the unique characteristics and variations of transmitters to "fingerprint" them. Similar things were done with the way radio operators send morse code to help detect spies that had been compromised.
Why not, I've seen old films of bicycle and motorcycle infantry troops in Europe during World War II. Some modern scouts use militarized dirt bikes and things that look like mutant dune buggies.
Lack of standards. Joe Firefighter walks in to your building. Is he using VHF-LO, VHF-HI, UHF, T-Band, 800 MHz? Is it analog or digital? Is it conventional or trunked? If trunked, which proprietary trunking system do they use? To make things worse, the feds usually use frequency bands that are reserved for the federal government, and are incompatible with the frequency bands used by state and local governments.
The problem is that you aren't just dealing with the federal government, you have to deal with a multitude of federal, stste, county, city, town and local agencies. All of which have their own needs, priorities, funding issues and politics. In many cases, they aren't used to cooperating with each other. You usually end up with a bunch of systems that can't communicate with each other. Most of this could be solved with better radio technology and adherence to open standards, but who is going to foot the bill for the new hardware?
That's why you hire an experienced radio engineer to do a study of the proposed system and the costs and construction requirements for the desired level of coverage. There's nothing wrong with 800 MHz as long as you recognize that it takes more base stations to get the same level of coverage as an existing VHF/UHF system. All systems have dead spots.
It's the same reason that you don't see large numbers of 70 year olds in the Ironman Triathlon, biology. As you get older, your hair tends to thin out and get weaker. That's much of why shorter cuts are popular.
Where I've worked, what Microsoft is calling a "beta" or "release candidate" would be considered an alpha release. Beta releases are supposed to be feature complete, but in need of testing and debugging.
effective-resolution = lines-per-field + lines-per-field * 0.6
Interlaced and progressive scan displays are not directly comparable. See Why Do We Interlace?. Using the numbers in that article, 1080i is equivalent to 648p. That's why many people prefer 720p to 1080i. There's no free lunch.
Don't underestimate the ability of a store to screw up a demo. I saw a blu-ray player being demonstrated at a local Best Buy store. It looked terrible, even worse than a well-mastered DVD. Plus, the player appeared to be slow and buggy.
The courts often throw out disclaimers. An insurance company can't ignore state law by just writing a clever disclaimer and adding it to their contracts.
I use EMC Retrospect to backup Windows XP and Mac OS X systems to DVD. It's easy to use and the price is reasonable. It doesn't meet all your requirements but I don't think you will find free software that does. The problem is that it takes a lot of work to write software that supports all or most of the backup devices on the market. In an ideal world, the operating system would have fully functional device drivers for tapes and CD/DVD burners. In the real world (Windows XP), these have to be written and supported by the people who write the backup software.