I wouldn't vote for a Nazi either, does that make me a bigot? Islam says that, at best, I'm a second-class citizen, at worst. an infidel who should be killed. That's mainstream Islam for you.
All of those security features in paper checks are becoming worthless. I was standing in line at the grocery store, and the customer ahead of me wrote a check. The clerk fed the check into a document scanner built into the cash register, and returned the original check to the customer. Besides, banks are so automated that it's a rare occasion that a human ever looks at a check.
Most of the hatred was already there. Like Tito in Yugoslavia, Hussein kept a lid on things. The only new force that I can think of is al Queda in Iraq, who seem to have worn out their welcome with the Sunnis.
The USA has a legitimate interest in restricting exports of weapons and ammunition to people who are hostile to us or to our allies. The Mexican government is engaged in a nasty war with drug traffickers in Mexico. I'd prefer to see that any weapons exports went to the federal government, not the drug gangs.
The underlying technology is important. China may have some technology, but that is no reason to make it easy for them to upgrade their systems to the current state=of-the-art. Let them spend many decades and billions of dollars like the USA and USSR/Russia. We may not be able to stop them, but we can slow them down.
An ATSC receiver can deal with some amount of in-band interference. That's a result of the use of several layers of forward error correction coding to reduce the bit-error-rate at the receiver.
I'd vote for the touch screen. I have similar problems with the new ATMs at my credit union. Where the machine thinks I'm touching the screen and where my eye thinks I'm touching the screen are often different.
BEEP! YOU HAVE SELECTED SWAHILI FOR THIS SESSION AND HAVE BOUGHT 10,000 SHARES OF LEHMAN BROS.
You wouldn't get interference if your television receiver wasn't a POS. We know how to design and build receivers that can operate in hostile RF environments, we just choose not to, because it's cheaper to build the POS.
Amateur radio operators have had to deal with similar problems for decades. It isn't the cell phone's fault. The problem is that consumer electronics, your typical Part 15 devices, are designed to be cheap. It isn't difficult to design a device that is resistant to interference, but it costs money. Money that manufacturers wont spend unless you hold a gun to their head and threaten to take their hookers and coke. In general the problem is solved by using a shielded enclosure, shielded cables, and adding filters to any place where things enter or leave the box, like the AC cord. If you hear funny noises from your widget, complain to the manufacturer. If they get enough complaints, they might start using good engineering practices, but I'm not holding my breath.
The structural requirements for an aircraft are very different than those of a rocket. With mass being such a critical problem in rocket design, are you any better off if you have to add a substantial amount of mass to add the capability of taking off and flying to high altitude? From what I remember about rockets launched from balloons, the main problem in reaching space wasn't altitude, it was velocity, and a balloon launch didn't help much in reaching escape velocity.
Put down your Handbook of Marxism-Leninism and read some real history books. What ethnic group dominated the senior positions in the Red Army
and other sensitive areas?
File cabinets may not keep logs, but clerks do if that is part of their job. There are a number of good reasons to make people sign for a file when they check it out. If you have a government job handling classified information, that sort of thing is routine procedure. There's no reason that the same standards of accountability can't be applied to sensitive information stored on computers. The IRS will fire you in a heartbeat if they catch you accessing files that aren't relevant to your job.
Russia, back in the days of the USSR, made a big deal out of encouraging Russian women to have lots of children. They were/are paranoid about losing control to ethnic groups that are out-reproducing them.
In the Stone Age, we could "SYSGEN" a new version of the operating system that only had the drivers that were needed for the hardware and already knew all of the I/O addresses, numbers, and types of I/O devices, etc. The boot process was simple and fast. Load an image of the operating system into RAM and go. The problem was that it could take a whole day to do a SYSGEN, and you had to know the exact hardware configuration of the system. Not something that the average end-user would be able to deal with.
The problem is MPEG-2. Even if everything else works instantly, the TV has to wait for a reference frame before it can begin to decode video. With analog, you just wait for the vertical sync pulse (60 per second) and go.
I've seen birds (sooty terns) that can spend years in the air. I've been told that they can let one part of their brain sleep while they use the other part to fly. They only need to land when they build a nest and lay eggs. You can go outside at night and see them soaring in the air currents.
What happens if I'm 50 miles away from the border and I tell some nosy Border Patrol agent to get stuffed, I'm under no obligation to answer his questions. If he was stupid enough to make an issue of it, what could he charge me with? I legally don't have to talk to my state and local police, other than to identify myself.
It happens all the time with beer and soft drinks. I used to know a pub owner in Hawaii that imported beer from Australia. It definitely tasted different from the export version of the brand that was sold on the mainland. Coke adjusts their recipe to suit local tastes and commodity prices.
D. R. Boggs , J. C. Mogul , C. A. Kent, Measured capacity of an Ethernet: myths and reality, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.25 n.1, p.123-136, Jan. 1995
I've overheard people bragging about voting twice while I was standing in line for the polls. It's easy to do and rarely investigated or prosecuted. The integrity of the process is largely base upon the honor system.
One solution is to do all inspections in a quarantine zone, where you aren't allowed to take anything in or out, besides your uniform and a security badge. Issue them coveralls with no pockets.
There is no right to "not to be offended". Especially when the group in question, or at least its more vocal components, respond to satire and criticism with riots, bombs, and assassination. In some parts of the world, all it takes is an ill-founded rumor that someone interprets as a slight to Islam to trigger riots and mob violence. The solution isn't to appease the mob. If people act like thugs, they should be treated like thugs.
Give us a call when you get tired of living in the dark ages.
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I wouldn't vote for a Nazi either, does that make me a bigot? Islam says that, at best, I'm a second-class citizen, at worst. an infidel who should be killed. That's mainstream Islam for you.
All of those security features in paper checks are becoming worthless. I was standing in line at the grocery store, and the customer ahead of me wrote a check. The clerk fed the check into a document scanner built into the cash register, and returned the original check to the customer. Besides, banks are so automated that it's a rare occasion that a human ever looks at a check.
Most of the hatred was already there. Like Tito in Yugoslavia, Hussein kept a lid on things. The only new force that I can think of is al Queda in Iraq, who seem to have worn out their welcome with the Sunnis.
Some of the devices use precision machined parts that are made in Iran. You could build an IED without them, but they wouldn't be as deadly.
The USA has a legitimate interest in restricting exports of weapons and ammunition to people who are hostile to us or to our allies. The Mexican government is engaged in a nasty war with drug traffickers in Mexico. I'd prefer to see that any weapons exports went to the federal government, not the drug gangs.
The underlying technology is important. China may have some technology, but that is no reason to make it easy for them to upgrade their systems to the current state=of-the-art. Let them spend many decades and billions of dollars like the USA and USSR/Russia. We may not be able to stop them, but we can slow them down.
The FCC requires 47 dB suppression of out-of-band emissions. The following web page has a nice graph of the emission mask:
OET CLARIFIES EMISSION MASK MEASUREMENTS FOR DTV TRANSMITTERS
An ATSC receiver can deal with some amount of in-band interference. That's a result of the use of several layers of forward error correction coding to reduce the bit-error-rate at the receiver.
I'd vote for the touch screen. I have similar problems with the new ATMs at my credit union. Where the machine thinks I'm touching the screen and where my eye thinks I'm touching the screen are often different.
BEEP! YOU HAVE SELECTED SWAHILI FOR THIS SESSION AND HAVE BOUGHT 10,000 SHARES OF LEHMAN BROS.
You wouldn't get interference if your television receiver wasn't a POS. We know how to design and build receivers that can operate in hostile RF environments, we just choose not to, because it's cheaper to build the POS.
Amateur radio operators have had to deal with similar problems for decades. It isn't the cell phone's fault. The problem is that consumer electronics, your typical Part 15 devices, are designed to be cheap. It isn't difficult to design a device that is resistant to interference, but it costs money. Money that manufacturers wont spend unless you hold a gun to their head and threaten to take their hookers and coke. In general the problem is solved by using a shielded enclosure, shielded cables, and adding filters to any place where things enter or leave the box, like the AC cord. If you hear funny noises from your widget, complain to the manufacturer. If they get enough complaints, they might start using good engineering practices, but I'm not holding my breath.
The structural requirements for an aircraft are very different than those of a rocket. With mass being such a critical problem in rocket design, are you any better off if you have to add a substantial amount of mass to add the capability of taking off and flying to high altitude? From what I remember about rockets launched from balloons, the main problem in reaching space wasn't altitude, it was velocity, and a balloon launch didn't help much in reaching escape velocity.
Go fuck your mother.
Put down your Handbook of Marxism-Leninism and read some real history books. What ethnic group dominated the senior positions in the Red Army and other sensitive areas?
File cabinets may not keep logs, but clerks do if that is part of their job. There are a number of good reasons to make people sign for a file when they check it out. If you have a government job handling classified information, that sort of thing is routine procedure. There's no reason that the same standards of accountability can't be applied to sensitive information stored on computers. The IRS will fire you in a heartbeat if they catch you accessing files that aren't relevant to your job.
Russia, back in the days of the USSR, made a big deal out of encouraging Russian women to have lots of children. They were/are paranoid about losing control to ethnic groups that are out-reproducing them.
In the Stone Age, we could "SYSGEN" a new version of the operating system that only had the drivers that were needed for the hardware and already knew all of the I/O addresses, numbers, and types of I/O devices, etc. The boot process was simple and fast. Load an image of the operating system into RAM and go. The problem was that it could take a whole day to do a SYSGEN, and you had to know the exact hardware configuration of the system. Not something that the average end-user would be able to deal with.
The problem is MPEG-2. Even if everything else works instantly, the TV has to wait for a reference frame before it can begin to decode video. With analog, you just wait for the vertical sync pulse (60 per second) and go.
I've seen birds (sooty terns) that can spend years in the air. I've been told that they can let one part of their brain sleep while they use the other part to fly. They only need to land when they build a nest and lay eggs. You can go outside at night and see them soaring in the air currents.
Federal does not mean unlimited jurisdiction.
What happens if I'm 50 miles away from the border and I tell some nosy Border Patrol agent to get stuffed, I'm under no obligation to answer his questions. If he was stupid enough to make an issue of it, what could he charge me with? I legally don't have to talk to my state and local police, other than to identify myself.
It happens all the time with beer and soft drinks. I used to know a pub owner in Hawaii that imported beer from Australia. It definitely tasted different from the export version of the brand that was sold on the mainland. Coke adjusts their recipe to suit local tastes and commodity prices.
These myths about Ethernet just refuse to die. Please do not propagate them.
http://hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-88-4.pdf
D. R. Boggs , J. C. Mogul , C. A. Kent, Measured capacity of an Ethernet: myths and reality, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.25 n.1, p.123-136, Jan. 1995
I've overheard people bragging about voting twice while I was standing in line for the polls. It's easy to do and rarely investigated or prosecuted. The integrity of the process is largely base upon the honor system.
So you've got no sense of aesthetics, and you're proud of it. Would you like a cookie?
One solution is to do all inspections in a quarantine zone, where you aren't allowed to take anything in or out, besides your uniform and a security badge. Issue them coveralls with no pockets.
There is no right to "not to be offended". Especially when the group in question, or at least its more vocal components, respond to satire and criticism with riots, bombs, and assassination. In some parts of the world, all it takes is an ill-founded rumor that someone interprets as a slight to Islam to trigger riots and mob violence. The solution isn't to appease the mob. If people act like thugs, they should be treated like thugs.
Give us a call when you get tired of living in the dark ages.