Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spoke to Japanese reporters on the issue, saying that: "Of course before the launch of the Wii hardware Nintendo had a number of tests on the durability of everything, including the strap, but our understanding right now is that even beyond our expectations people are becoming more and more excited playing with the Wii."
The point here in the US (with our wonderful for-profit system) is not to make people well. That went out the window years ago.
The point is to find a way to rule regular conditions (like an allergy to pollen during the springtime) as a sickness, and find a way to rake in a few dollars from it as a result.
I maintain that Americans are not actually more sick than residents of other countries, but that routine conditions that are regular and normal (colds in the winter, allergies in the spring, headaches, etc) are paperworked into being 'sick' and treated medically, because there is more profit in doing so.
...but, working in the healthcare profession in the US, no one gets paid unless you're sick. Sadly, healthcare here is definitely for-profit. So of course we're all 'sick.'
(Not a supporter of socialist programs in general, but healthcare is too important to be trusted to human greed.)
On the mods for cars theme, am I the only person who finds the pick up trucks with the body jacked up a foot over the axles to look utterly ridiculous?
This modification exists for offroading purposes.. Of course, most of the poseurs who do it don't offroad, but nonetheless there's a reason for it.
B> Monocoque/ Unit body: Stiffer, cheaper to produce.
The vast majority of front wheel drive cars are monocoque, whereas the majority of RWD cars are body-on-frame (Exceptions: The Mustang is RWD, yet is monocoque, as is the Jeep Grand Cherokee).
While as a rule most cars produced after 1980 or so are monocoque, there are exceptions. For instance, Chrysler products were monocoque from the mid-fifties on.
Considering that singlemode silica fiber is already flexible enough to wrap around a pencil continuously without breaking, I don't know how much more flexible it needs to be.
Maybe they're putting into layman's terms the new fiber's lessened susceptibility to attenuation due to bending. Modern fiber attenuates horribly if bent to less then (as a general rule) twenty times the outside diameter.
The upside of this is that if your signal is too high, a proper level is only a pen and some scotch tape away.
It's easy to tell a fiber signal is being tapped as transmission equipment is.
Light is finite. If some power is diverted to an eavesdropping reciever, the amount the intended receiver will recieve will drop proportionately.
Most optical recievers are intelligent enough to set off an alarm if light drops significantly during operation, even if the drop doesn't make the signal untenable.
Any eavesdropping has to be very professional or very quickly done, or the eavesdropped have to be very incompetant, for it to not be noticed.
Yeah, until someone gets their hands on the documentation and duplicates it. The point is to make sure the key isn't copied, if you will.
This method of transmission seems pretty much the same... Eavesdroppers can't listen until they get one of these nifty new recievers that can interpret it.
My point was that since the "encryption" comes along with the "signal", all you have to do is hook a "polarization-based" reciever to it to listen... No special token required.
Hence, it'll be secure until anyone with the right dosh can get their hands on one of these recievers.
There's alot more fiber out there than you may think. Any cable TV system newer than 1995 or so consists of more fiber than copper by the distance the signal travels.
Very new systems are quite literally fiber to the curb.
Were it not for the expense involved in termination (and the precision required), fiber into the home would be feasible.
...until polarizaton-based recievers become widespread, anyway.
Security through exclusivity ("It'll be secure, because we're the ONLY PEOPLE who have the hardware to read it!") doesn't work for very long.
Not that it's easy to tap fibers, anyway... Even if you have the equipment, you have to figure out which fiber out of 288 or more is the one you need, and the documentation is usually kept locked up tight.
She's not, IMHO, as gorgeous as everyone makes her out to be. She has "Girl next door" appeal. That's about it. They ruined that by making her wear gratuitously and pointlessly slutty outfits in the film, instead of adding something to the feel of the movie by dressing her as the dignitary she supposedly is.
Besides, being attractive doesn't make up for being terrible at acting. Her performance in Episode 2 was wooden, at best.
Chess players are paranoid because they are chess players, not vice versa. Five years of swirlys and locker room beatings in high school while a member of the Chess Club usually causes that.
Dasmegabyte, about time someone said that.. I work in the telecom industry as a fiber optic splicer, and people have NO idea what a pain in the ass the stuff is to work on... An outdoor cable with that number of fibers (216 or so?) will take four hours just to get it ready to splice, before you ever set cleaver to glass.
A good splicer, working in tandem with an assistant, and a good machine, might burn 24-36 in an hour, if he/she is experienced. A single guy working by himself with an older machine (far more common in the telecom industry) will burn 12 fibers in an hour, once you average things out.
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Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
Having grown up in the Pottsville, PA area, I can attest that the locals are "hick yokels", but where do YOU live? Nothing irritates me more than the assumption of northeasterners and west coast residents that anyone living in between those two regions is a 'bum hick yokel'. Get off your elitist trip. --
Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
"...people would probably benefit more from a healthy relationship with food (cooking themselves with fresh ingredients)..."
Dude, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider cooking myself healthy, no matter what kind of ingredients I used... --
Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
As a regular listener of Fresh Air, I'm happy to say that this will be their first heterosexual male guest in 351 episodes. --
Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
He said for a few weeks he along with transit workers would begin late at night, early in the morning, and go step by step through the tunnels. I recall him saying it was a pain staking process since it carefully had to be set as to avoid any remote thought of all kinds of problems, kinks, high electrical interference etc.
The part of fiber optic cabling used for carrying
information is completely dielectric, and thus impervious to electrical interference. Fiber is often used in power plants when normal wiring
would do for that very reason.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata spoke to Japanese reporters on the issue, saying that: "Of course before the launch of the Wii hardware Nintendo had a number of tests on the durability of everything, including the strap, but our understanding right now is that even beyond our expectations people are becoming more and more excited playing with the Wii."
The jokes write themselves.
That's because it's a game of semantics.
The point here in the US (with our wonderful for-profit system) is not to make people well. That went out the window years ago.
The point is to find a way to rule regular conditions (like an allergy to pollen during the springtime) as a sickness, and find a way to rake in a few dollars from it as a result.
I maintain that Americans are not actually more sick than residents of other countries, but that routine conditions that are regular and normal (colds in the winter, allergies in the spring, headaches, etc) are paperworked into being 'sick' and treated medically, because there is more profit in doing so.
...but, working in the healthcare profession in the US, no one gets paid unless you're sick. Sadly, healthcare here is definitely for-profit. So of course we're all 'sick.'
(Not a supporter of socialist programs in general, but healthcare is too important to be trusted to human greed.)
Yeah, how about Great Britain's amazingly low crime rate?
Switzerland's crime rate is sky high due to the proliferation of firearms there, too! What a bunch of brainless morons, right?
On the mods for cars theme, am I the only person who finds the pick up trucks with the body jacked up a foot over the axles to look utterly ridiculous?
This modification exists for offroading purposes.. Of course, most of the poseurs who do it don't offroad, but nonetheless there's a reason for it.
Not neccesarily up to the 80's..
There are two major schools of car construction
A> Body on frame: More durability.
B> Monocoque/ Unit body: Stiffer, cheaper to produce.
The vast majority of front wheel drive cars are monocoque, whereas the majority of RWD cars are body-on-frame (Exceptions: The Mustang is RWD, yet is monocoque, as is the Jeep Grand Cherokee).
While as a rule most cars produced after 1980 or so are monocoque, there are exceptions. For instance, Chrysler products were monocoque from the mid-fifties on.
Considering that singlemode silica fiber is already flexible enough to wrap around a pencil continuously without breaking, I don't know how much more flexible it needs to be.
Maybe they're putting into layman's terms the new fiber's lessened susceptibility to attenuation due to bending. Modern fiber attenuates horribly if bent to less then (as a general rule) twenty times the outside diameter.
The upside of this is that if your signal is too high, a proper level is only a pen and some scotch tape away.
Considering that they'd need to put a splice in at the exact point of the break, and there's a tap in place there, they'd probably notice it...
It's easy to tell a fiber signal is being tapped as transmission equipment is.
Light is finite. If some power is diverted to an eavesdropping reciever, the amount the intended receiver will recieve will drop proportionately.
Most optical recievers are intelligent enough to set off an alarm if light drops significantly during operation, even if the drop doesn't make the signal untenable.
Any eavesdropping has to be very professional or very quickly done, or the eavesdropped have to be very incompetant, for it to not be noticed.
Oh? My bad, then.
You learn something new every day.
Yeah, until someone gets their hands on the documentation and duplicates it. The point is to make sure the key isn't copied, if you will.
This method of transmission seems pretty much the same... Eavesdroppers can't listen until they get one of these nifty new recievers that can interpret it.
My point was that since the "encryption" comes along with the "signal", all you have to do is hook a "polarization-based" reciever to it to listen... No special token required.
Hence, it'll be secure until anyone with the right dosh can get their hands on one of these recievers.
There's alot more fiber out there than you may think. Any cable TV system newer than 1995 or so consists of more fiber than copper by the distance the signal travels.
Very new systems are quite literally fiber to the curb.
Were it not for the expense involved in termination (and the precision required), fiber into the home would be feasible.
...until polarizaton-based recievers become widespread, anyway.
Security through exclusivity ("It'll be secure, because we're the ONLY PEOPLE who have the hardware to read it!") doesn't work for very long.
Not that it's easy to tap fibers, anyway... Even if you have the equipment, you have to figure out which fiber out of 288 or more is the one you need, and the documentation is usually kept locked up tight.
...What makes Natalie Portman so "hot."
She's not, IMHO, as gorgeous as everyone makes her out to be. She has "Girl next door" appeal. That's about it. They ruined that by making her wear gratuitously and pointlessly slutty outfits in the film, instead of adding something to the feel of the movie by dressing her as the dignitary she supposedly is.
Besides, being attractive doesn't make up for being terrible at acting. Her performance in Episode 2 was wooden, at best.
...I'd probably kill myself too.
..Or Aquaglide.. The ultimate lube is here!
Chess players are paranoid because they are chess players, not vice versa. Five years of swirlys and locker room beatings in high school while a member of the Chess Club usually causes that.
The bandwidth choke on HFC networks, the coax, is often capable of 1 GHz in newer systems (a year or three old). Do the math..
(One TV channel == 6.25 or so MHz)
Actually, GM was NOT engaged in any mergers in the Sixties. GM had become the company it is today by the 1930s.
Dasmegabyte, about time someone said that.. I work in the telecom industry as a fiber optic splicer, and people have NO idea what a pain in the ass the stuff is to work on... An outdoor cable with that number of fibers (216 or so?) will take four hours just to get it ready to splice, before you ever set cleaver to glass. A good splicer, working in tandem with an assistant, and a good machine, might burn 24-36 in an hour, if he/she is experienced. A single guy working by himself with an older machine (far more common in the telecom industry) will burn 12 fibers in an hour, once you average things out. This stuff doesn't just coalesce out of thin air; it takes hard work to get it going.
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Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
Having grown up in the Pottsville, PA area, I can attest that the locals are "hick yokels", but where do YOU live? Nothing irritates me more than the assumption of northeasterners and west coast residents that anyone living in between those two regions is a 'bum hick yokel'. Get off your elitist trip.
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Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
"...people would probably benefit more from a healthy relationship with food (cooking themselves with fresh ingredients)..."
Dude, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider cooking myself healthy, no matter what kind of ingredients I used...
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Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
As a regular listener of Fresh Air, I'm happy to say that this will be their first heterosexual male guest in 351 episodes.
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Were I in touch with the toilet that is humanity, I'd have flushed it long ago.
He said for a few weeks he along with transit workers would begin late at night, early in the morning, and go step by step through the tunnels. I recall him saying it was a pain staking process since it carefully had to be set as to avoid any remote thought of all kinds of problems, kinks, high electrical interference etc.
The part of fiber optic cabling used for carrying information is completely dielectric, and thus impervious to electrical interference. Fiber is often used in power plants when normal wiring would do for that very reason.
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