Sadly, you seem a bit misinformed about the Buran and the Space Shuttle. The aerodynamic design of the Buran was so similar to the Space Shuttle because that aerodynamic shape is for the most part the best design for a spaceplane within the parameters and with the available technology each project had. Did the politburo order the design of their shuttle to look like it did? Yes, but not after determining that NASA had looked at 64 designs themselves and chose the Space Shuttle design and not until the Buran was compared to three other Soviet designs. The engines were moved to the stack for two major reasons, the Soviets had no desire or ability to design and research a reusable engine that performed as well as the SSME. The other issue was that the Soviets had little experience with LOX/LH2 propellants and with rocket engines that put out that much thrust. On the other hand, the Soviets had more experience with other liquid rocket engines than the US, so an engine that performed as well as the SSME, that used LOX/LH2, was designed. To reduce risk the engine was not made to be reused.
As for the liquid boosters of the Buran, they were of lower performance than the Shuttle's solid rocket engines. Variants on the Buran stack would have used four or even six liquid boosters. The Soviets used liquid boosters because they essentially had no experience with segmented solid rocket engines, but the US had been researching, designing, and using solid rocket engines for ICBMs and upper stages of rockets since the mid-1960s, so the US did have a bit of a technological advantage there. The boosters of the Buran also used LOX and Kerosene, a fine set of propellants at lower altitudes, but not as good at higher altitudes, that the Soviets had a great deal of experience with.
Until the Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003, Alliant Techsystems, who then owned and still owns Thiokol, had been working on adding a segment to the SRBs, resulting in a five segment SRB, and adding a third SRB to the Space Shuttle stack. An increase in payload was the intention, and even the potential for entering a polar orbit would have been possible. The plan is to reuse this research to build safer, redesigned solid rocket engines for the Ares program, at least. The break up of the Columbia, of course, ended this work. However, the last flight of the Columbia used an older design of the main tank, and the tank was old as well. The insulation was perhaps a bit past its prime.
As for the re-use of old Soviet designs, certain pieces of technology have been reused already in the US when it was a better design, an upper stage of the Delta IV rocket uses engines derived from a Soviet design. The Shuttle orbiters have also been outfitted with better performance turbopumps derived from Russian designs. The Ariane series of rockets made by France were built through a partnership with the Soviet Union, before that the French had done little research into rockets. It isn't like all the Russian technology went to waste.
Wow, I'm impressed a quote from Heinlein that I agree with strongly, usually I find him to have been a bit dumb and a bit far to the right. Granted, according to wikiquote, he made it in 1939 in "Life-Line", when he was a fairly left-wing socialist. It took Heinlein until his third marriage in 1947 for him to become the wacky right-winger I question the sanity of. Heinlein wrote "Starship Troopers" in support of the actions of the rabidly anti-communist Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, and the whole affair with HUAC obviously looks pretty bad today.
Frequently, the weirdos that buy these kinds of cases are the ones who put ten fans in their case and have even more fans as part of the various components in the machine. Five case fans end up in the locations built into the case and then they add five more fan mounting locations and fans using a hole saw or worse a metal nibbling tool. Then they say how the components in their case are obviously as low as possible and include numbers for the temperature, but not for the amount of noise produced by the computer. However, someone with a clue builds their own similar system, uses a single case fan, and ends up with lower component temperatures and noise levels well below the 90dB the first guy's monster produces.
Ugh, I'm going to mention an old Sony Vaio Pentium D desktop that came from the factory with a dead Ethernet port, I owned. I called Sony's tech support number, convinced the operator I knew what I was doing and that the Ethernet port was dead, a tech came out a couple days later to my apartment, replaced the motherboard. Things were better, until a RAM slot became non-functional on its own, another call to Sony that went the same way, the tech replaced the motherboard again. I didn't try to turn on the computer after the second replacement motherboard, as one might think would make sense, so when I tried to turn on the computer with all the cables back in place I received a nasty surprise, the board would not even power up, much less POST. The third motherboard replacement went like the other two and the computer still works today, but I don't own the computer anymore.
While I am not certain this is the case, but I would blame Sony's refurbishment procedures for not scrapping boards that that been refurbished, sent out, but failed again and then sending the same board back out again after refurbishment and receiving the board back again as defective, and following this sequence repeatedly. For cripes sake, permanently label your boards with serial numbers (no label stickers) so that after receiving a motherboard from a customer that has been refurbished twice already, you can track that and either recycle the damn board or find a better company to test and repair your boards. Sending boards that have cycled through the refurbishment process, say six times, out to fix customers machines is bad. The seventh time will not be the charm and it hurts yout reputation. Not that Sony has much of a reputation to lose after their atrocious handling of the defective nVidia 8400M and 8600M laptop GPUs. Not acknowledging the problem and offering a warranty extension for over a year after nVidia admits a problem is poor form for Sony.
Got news for you, you don't OWN your property. You fail to pay taxes ONCE and they'll take it away from you.
Got news for YOU. The money and property I inherit from my parents has had the taxes paid on it already. Taxing it again is unethical and immoral.
So what? If you have a job, I assume from your tone that you don't have actually have one, any income is taxed by the IRS before you receive it and then taxed again by the state government through sales taxes, gasoline taxes, and etc. after you buy something with it. There are plenty of people in this world with more talent than you, but born to parents with no money, and end up nowhere in life. All the ambition in the world won't help these people. Why should society let someone with as little talent as you, for instance, get a free ride because you happened to be born to the right family that is well off from its own inheritance? Also, if your grandparents farmed, for instance, and buying the land after World War II when farmland was cheap, farmed it, and you happened to inherit the land and decide to sell it, what happens to the capital gains taxes on the land? If your grandparents sold the land the capital gains taxes would be astronomical, would letting you get off without paying any capital gains taxes be reasonable? Of course not! Granted, the way that capital gains taxes are structured for small family farmers is absurd anyway, but not the capital gains tax itself in nearly every other case.
Oh yeah, and taxation "double" or otherwise is entirely moral and ethical. The GP may also have been referencing the consequences of not paying local property taxes, I think at least. However, the government will confiscate money, Social Security retirement benefits, and property if you are seriously delinquent on income taxes. You really have to be stupid though for this to happen though, not contacting the IRS after receiving delinquency letters and making really stupid arguments in Tax Court, are both good ways though.
Nice, but I don't fancy dying slowly of thirst because I fell off the roadway. This would be one case where dying of hypothermia during the winter might be preferable. Another fun option - being burned to death in a roaring inferno.
Yeah, the video card just ends up having its RAM mapped somewhere in the additional seven bits of address space that PAE adds. I suppose you could use the version of the Windows Vista kernel without PAE if you thought it negatively affected performance, but it does not. If you did so you might encounter problems with 2GB of RAM and two 2 GB video cards, but losing the ability to mark pages not executable, the NX flag only is available with PAE on, and even worse, spending that much money to build a stupid system like that would be idiotic.
Why was this modded insightful. It should be "-1 ignorant". There is virtually nothing factual or truthful about the parent post about the ICC, it is a rant from either an libertarian extremist or a far-right extremist. Personally, and without looking at the user's other posts, I vote for far-right with a patina of libertarianism. I say this because the poster appears to claim that the Republicans weren't really conservative. Apparently it seems he may have his own custom definition of conservative not shared by the rest of society.
According to the parent, the ICC was formed after a dispute over four trucks, especially considering that the article states the ICC was formed in 1887 to regulate railroads. I'm fairly sure that interstate cargo transport would not have been done by ICE trucks. If they existed the existing roads would have not been passable, the relative unreliability of early ICE engines and vehicles is another factor to consider. Even better, in the 1970' and 1980's Congress started taking away powers from the ICC (many were probably just redistributed instead) and in 1995 the ICC was abolished by the Republicans in Congress. The remaining functions of the ICC were distributed to the Surface Transportation Board. Interestingly, the ICC was the model for many other federal agencies like the FCC, SEC, and FTC among others. Its hard to argue against the need for a functional SEC and FTC today at least in a credible manner.
While personally I would like more people, who are well informed to be involved in a constructive manner with the government. I prefer inactive, but informed individuals rather than people like the parent, who is badly misinformed or who even knows what they are spewing is untrue. While I'm not saying the parent does this, but acting like hooligans nonviolent or otherwise in order to obstruct the government helps no one, not even themselves.
Off the top of my head, I wouldn't want to be on a space-flight where a less expensive, less capable part was used in order to save money. I would also not want to end up free-falling into the Atlantic for the want of a more reliable $500 part. This is where SpaceX and other companies offering low cost space flight get it wrong, using cheap, off the shelf, parts may work for cars and even small single engine aircraft, but they are not reliable or robust enough for large commercial aircraft and especially not for use in space flight.
Yeah, and all of the methods the GP posted are needlessly messy, dangerous, and destructive. Try this instead: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml Secure Erase uses ATA commands to tell the drive erase itself using the drive's own built in methods. Using the Secure Erase ATA command will erase parts of the drive that are normally missed by reformatting using the OS, and takes on the order of 20 minutes. Data on an ATA hard drive can be missed by the OS, ATA drives reallocate sectors due to damaged media and do so on the fly. If this happens and an all zero reformat is attempted, the old sectors are left behind, potentially with usable data left behind. The issue is that the ATA command set only exposes logical locations on the drive and not the direct physical addresses. Multiple pass erasing stresses the drive media a large amount, shortening the life of the drive itself. In any case, a secure erase will get the hidden data erased better anyway.
A better way to deter burglary is to remove the motivation for burglary, but that would most likely mean additional taxes for job training programs, decent housing, etc. for potential burglars as well as additional police services and equipment for the police. In the end, however, you and the other guy would both be better off in this scenario. It ends up increasing your standard of living and is cheaper than other methods when you help the other guy out as well.
Off the top of my head, moderate scale rioting usually happens less often than once every decade, in a single city, in the entire US. The circumstances in which it happens depends largely on several things going wrong. Additionally, while apocalyptic scenarios are fun to think up, what will more likely get you is something you hadn't thought up before hand and for which your defenses would be useless. For instance, having a defensible location is useless when forest fires, industrial accidents, or chemical spills make your house and the area around it not worth defending, forcing you to leave.
3. has CBN weapons (because a couple of V2s don't justify this laser program.)
Consider, that if a 'rogue' nation has CBN weapons, this weapon system is only useful if a ballistic missile is used. For nuclear weapons with small warheads, chemical weapons, which have been used in modern warfare, and even biological weapons, which have not been used in modern warfare, short to medium range targets can be attacked just as easily using artillery or cruise missiles, delivery systems which Boeing's laser would be ineffective. For Boeing's system to be effective, the plane must be in the air, be well defended by friendly airplanes, and then be close enough to the launch site to fire on the rocket depending on rocket type. Solid fueled missiles IIRC are easier to destroy with Boeing's system than a liquid fueled rocket with cryogenic propellants. The propellants in solid fueled rockets are less stable and require less energy to ignite accidentally than the cryogenic liquids in a liquid fueled rocket. However, getting solid fueled missiles to work properly may be beyond the available expertise of a rogue nation, solid fueled rockets may have simple propellant components Ammonium Perchlorate (NH4ClO4) and Aluminum Powder, but have a nasty habit of exploding if looked at funny. Also, liquid propellants for a liquid fueled rocket stable at -40F to +120F are too unstable, reactive, and/or toxic to be stored or used effectively.
I would also wonder why digital devices that were already powered off without the device mentioned above were suddenly useless. In any case, enough with your "It's still the Cold War/New Endless War and the Commies/Socialists/Fascists/Islamofascists are after me specifically." survivalist mental masturbation.
If the floppies are 800K floppies, I wish you good luck in finding an old Mac with a working internal floppy drive or some other solution. Older Mac 800K standard density disks with no additional hole opposite the lock switch are not encoded the same as 1.44MB high density disks and these 800K disks are unreadable on a standard PC floppy drive. You may be able to find an old 50-pin SCSI floppy drive compatible with an old SCSI card. As I remember though, the old SCSI floppy drives were bursting with much bad and lacked greatly in any sort of fun. On the other hand, or there may also have been (I'm not positive though) old ISA cards for PCs with sockets for Mac ROM chips, a SWIM floppy drive controller and a Mac floppy drive port which would have been intended to allow a PC to run various versions of System 6 or System 7. Good luck with finding drivers for any old peripheral like these.
Got any accurate figures from reliable, peer reviewed, published studies on the amount of Medicare fraud and is the amount of fraud significant? No, AC, personal anecdotes or isolated incidents do not count and neither does anything that comes out of (or goes into) Rush's mouth. In any case, I thought you had no actual evidence. The use of a fraud prevention programs of any type must be justified by a significant amount of easily discovered fraud. This fraud must also significantly affect the program in a negative way for program beneficiaries. The program must also pay for itself, spending $200 million to find and save $10 million is not a good trade-off. It is especially bad if there are an excessive number of false positives that deprive deserving potential beneficiaries of benefits. So at least some analysis should be done before a fraud prevention program is instated that shows, without biased figures, that the program will be of benefit. Consider the ratio of 100 guilty people going free to the one innocent person falsely convicted preferable. Keep in mind that those 101 people are also a small subset of those convicted or found innocent in the legal system. This also counts for the imaginary "convicted felons" and "illegal immigrant" voter problem.
It is important to set the password on the hard drive itself and delete the password in the BIOS when "they" come. Setting a BIOS password for the computer itself is the only option on many desktop computers and would be a waste of time. When "they" come they will boot the computer, see the password, giggle madly, mock you, turn the computer off, disassemble the computer, remove the drives and happily read the contents of the hard drives on another computer. For really stupidly broken motherboards, and regardless of original cost or manufacturer, resetting the CMOS using the CMOS jumper would be something "they" might do as well and may actually work more often than not for BIOS passwords.
Seriously though, the government advises those government contractors and employees working with sensitive data and who use a laptop to have the hard drive password set and thus encrypted with AES and to either have a prompt for the hard drive password at boot up or to delete the hard drive encryption key from the BIOS in order to quickly and easily make the data on the drive useless.
That would be why the ATA standard requires the data to be encrypted with AES, so removing the physical flash chips and attempting to read them would do no good without the encryption key and the data would only be in 512 byte blocks with some ECC code and with an unknown physical to logical mapping. Good luck on decrypting and reconstructing the contents of a 160GB drive 512 bytes at a time with an unknown and complex type of error checking code.
It's even better if that storm has large amounts of hail, you can expect to buy new solar panels (they really aren't bulletproof in the least bit). While you are busy obtaining and installing new solar panels you may also want power from the electrical company. While you could use a gasoline or diesel generator, having one, keeping it in working order, and actually paying for the fuel when you do need it, is more costly and more trouble than it is worth, so just keep the grid connection. Using batteries to store power during the day and then use it at night may seem like a good idea until you are replacing lead-acid batteries at a rate of one bad battery a month. Of course, you might leave the good batteries in place, but at what age do you chuck all of the batteries? You can still perhaps expect to run the generator at least some of the time as well due to a bad panel or a bad inverter.
The economics of this may change if some might describe you as a "freeptard", but you already probably like doing things the hard way anyway. However, the rest of us are probably happy to have the electrical company do the maintenance work on their end in an expert fashion and realize that we as amateurs don't have the time, expertise, patience, energy, or parts available to maintain a steady source of power to our homes.
Government-funded research is just one form of funding-by-monopolist, which has already been covered. The only difference is that in the government's case the monopoly is established and maintained through the active and continual application of aggressive coercion, whereas most private monopolies are either natural--meaning the market will only support a single provider--or merely the result of good business instincts.
Yes, but we can petition our government, in the US, and the rules are for the most part clear and benign and corruption is reasonably low. Any "coercion" that occurs is gentle, but will escalate in step with one's response to the government after refusing to follow these rules. If you do not like this situation, Afghanistan and Somalia since the early 1990's are both a good examples of how things often work otherwise. If you have a gun and a few guys you can pretty much do what you want to whomever you want, regardless of the type of weapons held by the other guys. For that matter, the lack of current examples of large scale, functional societies with no or little government would seem to indicate that a fair amount of government is necessary in all cases.
When it comes to monopolies, markets that truly can only support one provider in a given geographic regions are not really common and those markets could be restructured to allow more competition. While not always the case, monopolists that abuse their position in order to either achieve their position or to maintain their position are not exercising "good business instincts", they are just acting criminal and costing you money. Even if a monopolist is acting responsibly, the cost of that monopoly is too great and does affect the consumer. A monopoly in a market could be justified if there were high setup costs and high maintenance costs present, however, the government could also provide the same services with better oversight, less expensively, and at a better quality than a corporation. This assumes that a constant, consistent source of funding is set up and with Congress not attempting to micromanage the agency or gut its funding when ideologically it seems to be a good idea.
Could we just drop the deci- prefix and go with bels instead? Deci- isn't an SI prefix and it makes bels, an already hard to understand measurement for stupid^W lay people to not get confused by, something even harder to comprehend for these individuals.
Yeah, but where my parents live, which is in an inner ring suburb of Minneapolis, with Verizon, I can expect one bar intermittently, at best, on the top floor and no reception at all at either the ground level or outside in the yard. As one might expect, there is no reception as well in the partially underground basement. Granted, the signal is better than Sprint or T-mobile, which have no signal, but that's not saying much. I suppose there is the Verizon picocell basestation, but why should anyone have to pay any more than a trivial fee to deal with a poor signal, especially in a suburban area that, Verizon does not want seem to want to fix on its own.
Or to 2TB and potentially beyond. Hack a SATA cable to an eSATA port on a PS3, fail at making the port look pretty. Then, connect a 2TB drive in an external case with an eSATA port to your PS3. Then explain why you did this at all. More drives could be added if the SATA port on PS3 systems support SATA multipliers, stir in more fail for fun and enjoy.
So is there an 8000 or 9000 series nVidia GPU in your laptop and was the laptop manufactured before March 2009? If this is the case, you are just plain fucked, HP so far has done little for people with models with the affected GPUs that are defective. Well, aside from repairing the old, broken motherboard and returning it to the owner. The owner then gets to see it happen again and again and then again a few more times for fun. HP should exchange the affected laptops with new laptops of a new model type without nVidia graphics. Dell is doing this for its customers with bad nVidia GPUs. For the record, the GPU has a design flaw from nVidia, the chip packaging used the wrong type of underfill material from the start. The fact this even happened shows that nVidia cares very little about the end user.
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Sadly, you seem a bit misinformed about the Buran and the Space Shuttle. The aerodynamic design of the Buran was so similar to the Space Shuttle because that aerodynamic shape is for the most part the best design for a spaceplane within the parameters and with the available technology each project had. Did the politburo order the design of their shuttle to look like it did? Yes, but not after determining that NASA had looked at 64 designs themselves and chose the Space Shuttle design and not until the Buran was compared to three other Soviet designs. The engines were moved to the stack for two major reasons, the Soviets had no desire or ability to design and research a reusable engine that performed as well as the SSME. The other issue was that the Soviets had little experience with LOX/LH2 propellants and with rocket engines that put out that much thrust. On the other hand, the Soviets had more experience with other liquid rocket engines than the US, so an engine that performed as well as the SSME, that used LOX/LH2, was designed. To reduce risk the engine was not made to be reused.
As for the liquid boosters of the Buran, they were of lower performance than the Shuttle's solid rocket engines. Variants on the Buran stack would have used four or even six liquid boosters. The Soviets used liquid boosters because they essentially had no experience with segmented solid rocket engines, but the US had been researching, designing, and using solid rocket engines for ICBMs and upper stages of rockets since the mid-1960s, so the US did have a bit of a technological advantage there. The boosters of the Buran also used LOX and Kerosene, a fine set of propellants at lower altitudes, but not as good at higher altitudes, that the Soviets had a great deal of experience with.
Until the Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003, Alliant Techsystems, who then owned and still owns Thiokol, had been working on adding a segment to the SRBs, resulting in a five segment SRB, and adding a third SRB to the Space Shuttle stack. An increase in payload was the intention, and even the potential for entering a polar orbit would have been possible. The plan is to reuse this research to build safer, redesigned solid rocket engines for the Ares program, at least. The break up of the Columbia, of course, ended this work. However, the last flight of the Columbia used an older design of the main tank, and the tank was old as well. The insulation was perhaps a bit past its prime.
As for the re-use of old Soviet designs, certain pieces of technology have been reused already in the US when it was a better design, an upper stage of the Delta IV rocket uses engines derived from a Soviet design. The Shuttle orbiters have also been outfitted with better performance turbopumps derived from Russian designs. The Ariane series of rockets made by France were built through a partnership with the Soviet Union, before that the French had done little research into rockets. It isn't like all the Russian technology went to waste.
Try this as well:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/buran.htm
Wow, I'm impressed a quote from Heinlein that I agree with strongly, usually I find him to have been a bit dumb and a bit far to the right. Granted, according to wikiquote, he made it in 1939 in "Life-Line", when he was a fairly left-wing socialist. It took Heinlein until his third marriage in 1947 for him to become the wacky right-winger I question the sanity of. Heinlein wrote "Starship Troopers" in support of the actions of the rabidly anti-communist Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, and the whole affair with HUAC obviously looks pretty bad today.
Frequently, the weirdos that buy these kinds of cases are the ones who put ten fans in their case and have even more fans as part of the various components in the machine. Five case fans end up in the locations built into the case and then they add five more fan mounting locations and fans using a hole saw or worse a metal nibbling tool. Then they say how the components in their case are obviously as low as possible and include numbers for the temperature, but not for the amount of noise produced by the computer. However, someone with a clue builds their own similar system, uses a single case fan, and ends up with lower component temperatures and noise levels well below the 90dB the first guy's monster produces.
Ugh, I'm going to mention an old Sony Vaio Pentium D desktop that came from the factory with a dead Ethernet port, I owned. I called Sony's tech support number, convinced the operator I knew what I was doing and that the Ethernet port was dead, a tech came out a couple days later to my apartment, replaced the motherboard. Things were better, until a RAM slot became non-functional on its own, another call to Sony that went the same way, the tech replaced the motherboard again. I didn't try to turn on the computer after the second replacement motherboard, as one might think would make sense, so when I tried to turn on the computer with all the cables back in place I received a nasty surprise, the board would not even power up, much less POST. The third motherboard replacement went like the other two and the computer still works today, but I don't own the computer anymore.
While I am not certain this is the case, but I would blame Sony's refurbishment procedures for not scrapping boards that that been refurbished, sent out, but failed again and then sending the same board back out again after refurbishment and receiving the board back again as defective, and following this sequence repeatedly. For cripes sake, permanently label your boards with serial numbers (no label stickers) so that after receiving a motherboard from a customer that has been refurbished twice already, you can track that and either recycle the damn board or find a better company to test and repair your boards. Sending boards that have cycled through the refurbishment process, say six times, out to fix customers machines is bad. The seventh time will not be the charm and it hurts yout reputation. Not that Sony has much of a reputation to lose after their atrocious handling of the defective nVidia 8400M and 8600M laptop GPUs. Not acknowledging the problem and offering a warranty extension for over a year after nVidia admits a problem is poor form for Sony.
Got news for you, you don't OWN your property. You fail to pay taxes ONCE and they'll take it away from you.
Got news for YOU. The money and property I inherit from my parents has had the taxes paid on it already. Taxing it again is unethical and immoral.
So what? If you have a job, I assume from your tone that you don't have actually have one, any income is taxed by the IRS before you receive it and then taxed again by the state government through sales taxes, gasoline taxes, and etc. after you buy something with it. There are plenty of people in this world with more talent than you, but born to parents with no money, and end up nowhere in life. All the ambition in the world won't help these people. Why should society let someone with as little talent as you, for instance, get a free ride because you happened to be born to the right family that is well off from its own inheritance? Also, if your grandparents farmed, for instance, and buying the land after World War II when farmland was cheap, farmed it, and you happened to inherit the land and decide to sell it, what happens to the capital gains taxes on the land? If your grandparents sold the land the capital gains taxes would be astronomical, would letting you get off without paying any capital gains taxes be reasonable? Of course not! Granted, the way that capital gains taxes are structured for small family farmers is absurd anyway, but not the capital gains tax itself in nearly every other case.
Oh yeah, and taxation "double" or otherwise is entirely moral and ethical. The GP may also have been referencing the consequences of not paying local property taxes, I think at least. However, the government will confiscate money, Social Security retirement benefits, and property if you are seriously delinquent on income taxes. You really have to be stupid though for this to happen though, not contacting the IRS after receiving delinquency letters and making really stupid arguments in Tax Court, are both good ways though.
That was the plan for the NOAA, more or less.
Nice, but I don't fancy dying slowly of thirst because I fell off the roadway. This would be one case where dying of hypothermia during the winter might be preferable. Another fun option - being burned to death in a roaring inferno.
Yeah, the video card just ends up having its RAM mapped somewhere in the additional seven bits of address space that PAE adds. I suppose you could use the version of the Windows Vista kernel without PAE if you thought it negatively affected performance, but it does not. If you did so you might encounter problems with 2GB of RAM and two 2 GB video cards, but losing the ability to mark pages not executable, the NX flag only is available with PAE on, and even worse, spending that much money to build a stupid system like that would be idiotic.
Why was this modded insightful. It should be "-1 ignorant". There is virtually nothing factual or truthful about the parent post about the ICC, it is a rant from either an libertarian extremist or a far-right extremist. Personally, and without looking at the user's other posts, I vote for far-right with a patina of libertarianism. I say this because the poster appears to claim that the Republicans weren't really conservative. Apparently it seems he may have his own custom definition of conservative not shared by the rest of society.
The article for the ICC at Wikipedia is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission
According to the parent, the ICC was formed after a dispute over four trucks, especially considering that the article states the ICC was formed in 1887 to regulate railroads. I'm fairly sure that interstate cargo transport would not have been done by ICE trucks. If they existed the existing roads would have not been passable, the relative unreliability of early ICE engines and vehicles is another factor to consider. Even better, in the 1970' and 1980's Congress started taking away powers from the ICC (many were probably just redistributed instead) and in 1995 the ICC was abolished by the Republicans in Congress. The remaining functions of the ICC were distributed to the Surface Transportation Board. Interestingly, the ICC was the model for many other federal agencies like the FCC, SEC, and FTC among others. Its hard to argue against the need for a functional SEC and FTC today at least in a credible manner.
While personally I would like more people, who are well informed to be involved in a constructive manner with the government. I prefer inactive, but informed individuals rather than people like the parent, who is badly misinformed or who even knows what they are spewing is untrue. While I'm not saying the parent does this, but acting like hooligans nonviolent or otherwise in order to obstruct the government helps no one, not even themselves.
Off the top of my head, I wouldn't want to be on a space-flight where a less expensive, less capable part was used in order to save money. I would also not want to end up free-falling into the Atlantic for the want of a more reliable $500 part. This is where SpaceX and other companies offering low cost space flight get it wrong, using cheap, off the shelf, parts may work for cars and even small single engine aircraft, but they are not reliable or robust enough for large commercial aircraft and especially not for use in space flight.
Yeah, and all of the methods the GP posted are needlessly messy, dangerous, and destructive. Try this instead: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
Secure Erase uses ATA commands to tell the drive erase itself using the drive's own built in methods. Using the Secure Erase ATA command will erase parts of the drive that are normally missed by reformatting using the OS, and takes on the order of 20 minutes. Data on an ATA hard drive can be missed by the OS, ATA drives reallocate sectors due to damaged media and do so on the fly. If this happens and an all zero reformat is attempted, the old sectors are left behind, potentially with usable data left behind. The issue is that the ATA command set only exposes logical locations on the drive and not the direct physical addresses. Multiple pass erasing stresses the drive media a large amount, shortening the life of the drive itself. In any case, a secure erase will get the hidden data erased better anyway.
A better way to deter burglary is to remove the motivation for burglary, but that would most likely mean additional taxes for job training programs, decent housing, etc. for potential burglars as well as additional police services and equipment for the police. In the end, however, you and the other guy would both be better off in this scenario. It ends up increasing your standard of living and is cheaper than other methods when you help the other guy out as well.
Off the top of my head, moderate scale rioting usually happens less often than once every decade, in a single city, in the entire US. The circumstances in which it happens depends largely on several things going wrong. Additionally, while apocalyptic scenarios are fun to think up, what will more likely get you is something you hadn't thought up before hand and for which your defenses would be useless. For instance, having a defensible location is useless when forest fires, industrial accidents, or chemical spills make your house and the area around it not worth defending, forcing you to leave.
3. has CBN weapons (because a couple of V2s don't justify this laser program.)
Consider, that if a 'rogue' nation has CBN weapons, this weapon system is only useful if a ballistic missile is used. For nuclear weapons with small warheads, chemical weapons, which have been used in modern warfare, and even biological weapons, which have not been used in modern warfare, short to medium range targets can be attacked just as easily using artillery or cruise missiles, delivery systems which Boeing's laser would be ineffective. For Boeing's system to be effective, the plane must be in the air, be well defended by friendly airplanes, and then be close enough to the launch site to fire on the rocket depending on rocket type. Solid fueled missiles IIRC are easier to destroy with Boeing's system than a liquid fueled rocket with cryogenic propellants. The propellants in solid fueled rockets are less stable and require less energy to ignite accidentally than the cryogenic liquids in a liquid fueled rocket. However, getting solid fueled missiles to work properly may be beyond the available expertise of a rogue nation, solid fueled rockets may have simple propellant components Ammonium Perchlorate (NH4ClO4) and Aluminum Powder, but have a nasty habit of exploding if looked at funny. Also, liquid propellants for a liquid fueled rocket stable at -40F to +120F are too unstable, reactive, and/or toxic to be stored or used effectively.
In the situation you mention, I would wonder why more of these devices were not in use: http://www.maxwell.com/pdf/me/product_datasheets/ned/HSN3000_Rev3.pdf
I would also wonder why digital devices that were already powered off without the device mentioned above were suddenly useless. In any case, enough with your "It's still the Cold War/New Endless War and the Commies/Socialists/Fascists/Islamofascists are after me specifically." survivalist mental masturbation.
If the floppies are 800K floppies, I wish you good luck in finding an old Mac with a working internal floppy drive or some other solution. Older Mac 800K standard density disks with no additional hole opposite the lock switch are not encoded the same as 1.44MB high density disks and these 800K disks are unreadable on a standard PC floppy drive. You may be able to find an old 50-pin SCSI floppy drive compatible with an old SCSI card. As I remember though, the old SCSI floppy drives were bursting with much bad and lacked greatly in any sort of fun. On the other hand, or there may also have been (I'm not positive though) old ISA cards for PCs with sockets for Mac ROM chips, a SWIM floppy drive controller and a Mac floppy drive port which would have been intended to allow a PC to run various versions of System 6 or System 7. Good luck with finding drivers for any old peripheral like these.
Got any accurate figures from reliable, peer reviewed, published studies on the amount of Medicare fraud and is the amount of fraud significant? No, AC, personal anecdotes or isolated incidents do not count and neither does anything that comes out of (or goes into) Rush's mouth. In any case, I thought you had no actual evidence. The use of a fraud prevention programs of any type must be justified by a significant amount of easily discovered fraud. This fraud must also significantly affect the program in a negative way for program beneficiaries. The program must also pay for itself, spending $200 million to find and save $10 million is not a good trade-off. It is especially bad if there are an excessive number of false positives that deprive deserving potential beneficiaries of benefits. So at least some analysis should be done before a fraud prevention program is instated that shows, without biased figures, that the program will be of benefit. Consider the ratio of 100 guilty people going free to the one innocent person falsely convicted preferable. Keep in mind that those 101 people are also a small subset of those convicted or found innocent in the legal system. This also counts for the imaginary "convicted felons" and "illegal immigrant" voter problem.
And the CSR on the other end when called should not be able to mute, end, or transfer the call without supervisor assistance.
It is important to set the password on the hard drive itself and delete the password in the BIOS when "they" come. Setting a BIOS password for the computer itself is the only option on many desktop computers and would be a waste of time. When "they" come they will boot the computer, see the password, giggle madly, mock you, turn the computer off, disassemble the computer, remove the drives and happily read the contents of the hard drives on another computer. For really stupidly broken motherboards, and regardless of original cost or manufacturer, resetting the CMOS using the CMOS jumper would be something "they" might do as well and may actually work more often than not for BIOS passwords.
Seriously though, the government advises those government contractors and employees working with sensitive data and who use a laptop to have the hard drive password set and thus encrypted with AES and to either have a prompt for the hard drive password at boot up or to delete the hard drive encryption key from the BIOS in order to quickly and easily make the data on the drive useless.
That would be why the ATA standard requires the data to be encrypted with AES, so removing the physical flash chips and attempting to read them would do no good without the encryption key and the data would only be in 512 byte blocks with some ECC code and with an unknown physical to logical mapping. Good luck on decrypting and reconstructing the contents of a 160GB drive 512 bytes at a time with an unknown and complex type of error checking code.
It's even better if that storm has large amounts of hail, you can expect to buy new solar panels (they really aren't bulletproof in the least bit). While you are busy obtaining and installing new solar panels you may also want power from the electrical company. While you could use a gasoline or diesel generator, having one, keeping it in working order, and actually paying for the fuel when you do need it, is more costly and more trouble than it is worth, so just keep the grid connection. Using batteries to store power during the day and then use it at night may seem like a good idea until you are replacing lead-acid batteries at a rate of one bad battery a month. Of course, you might leave the good batteries in place, but at what age do you chuck all of the batteries? You can still perhaps expect to run the generator at least some of the time as well due to a bad panel or a bad inverter.
The economics of this may change if some might describe you as a "freeptard", but you already probably like doing things the hard way anyway. However, the rest of us are probably happy to have the electrical company do the maintenance work on their end in an expert fashion and realize that we as amateurs don't have the time, expertise, patience, energy, or parts available to maintain a steady source of power to our homes.
Government-funded research is just one form of funding-by-monopolist, which has already been covered. The only difference is that in the government's case the monopoly is established and maintained through the active and continual application of aggressive coercion, whereas most private monopolies are either natural--meaning the market will only support a single provider--or merely the result of good business instincts.
Yes, but we can petition our government, in the US, and the rules are for the most part clear and benign and corruption is reasonably low. Any "coercion" that occurs is gentle, but will escalate in step with one's response to the government after refusing to follow these rules. If you do not like this situation, Afghanistan and Somalia since the early 1990's are both a good examples of how things often work otherwise. If you have a gun and a few guys you can pretty much do what you want to whomever you want, regardless of the type of weapons held by the other guys. For that matter, the lack of current examples of large scale, functional societies with no or little government would seem to indicate that a fair amount of government is necessary in all cases.
When it comes to monopolies, markets that truly can only support one provider in a given geographic regions are not really common and those markets could be restructured to allow more competition. While not always the case, monopolists that abuse their position in order to either achieve their position or to maintain their position are not exercising "good business instincts", they are just acting criminal and costing you money. Even if a monopolist is acting responsibly, the cost of that monopoly is too great and does affect the consumer. A monopoly in a market could be justified if there were high setup costs and high maintenance costs present, however, the government could also provide the same services with better oversight, less expensively, and at a better quality than a corporation. This assumes that a constant, consistent source of funding is set up and with Congress not attempting to micromanage the agency or gut its funding when ideologically it seems to be a good idea.
Could we just drop the deci- prefix and go with bels instead? Deci- isn't an SI prefix and it makes bels, an already hard to understand measurement for stupid^W lay people to not get confused by, something even harder to comprehend for these individuals.
Yeah, but where my parents live, which is in an inner ring suburb of Minneapolis, with Verizon, I can expect one bar intermittently, at best, on the top floor and no reception at all at either the ground level or outside in the yard. As one might expect, there is no reception as well in the partially underground basement. Granted, the signal is better than Sprint or T-mobile, which have no signal, but that's not saying much. I suppose there is the Verizon picocell basestation, but why should anyone have to pay any more than a trivial fee to deal with a poor signal, especially in a suburban area that, Verizon does not want seem to want to fix on its own.
Or to 2TB and potentially beyond. Hack a SATA cable to an eSATA port on a PS3, fail at making the port look pretty. Then, connect a 2TB drive in an external case with an eSATA port to your PS3. Then explain why you did this at all. More drives could be added if the SATA port on PS3 systems support SATA multipliers, stir in more fail for fun and enjoy.
So is there an 8000 or 9000 series nVidia GPU in your laptop and was the laptop manufactured before March 2009? If this is the case, you are just plain fucked, HP so far has done little for people with models with the affected GPUs that are defective. Well, aside from repairing the old, broken motherboard and returning it to the owner. The owner then gets to see it happen again and again and then again a few more times for fun. HP should exchange the affected laptops with new laptops of a new model type without nVidia graphics. Dell is doing this for its customers with bad nVidia GPUs. For the record, the GPU has a design flaw from nVidia, the chip packaging used the wrong type of underfill material from the start. The fact this even happened shows that nVidia cares very little about the end user.