That USB adapter hack is pretty crazy. The way backlights work some amount of blue light makes it through, but maybe it isn't enough to matter.
There are screen filters in common use that block blue light, as people have considered it to contribute to eye strain and fatigue for many years. It doesn't totally filter blue light, but it attenuates it significantly.
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke. Russia has man rated rockets to launch them.
Never in history has anyone taken a manned rocket to detonate a nuclear warhead. I can't say that it was never on the drawing board, but it seems like a bonehead idea.
The US's ICBMs fly up to around 1100 km before reentering to strike their targets. That's just above the maximum altitude of the old Shuttle Orbiter, and well beyond the typical operational altitude for most Shuttle missions (320 km).
Can Russia fly higher? probably. But is that a requirement for nukes in space? clearly not. In fact the highest test explosion was at 540 km, and yet about half of the known tests were under 100 km.
well theoretically if I have a printer I can print whatever I want. So given that a voting machine is supposed to be a trusted system that has been audited. Then my receipt needs to have a quick way to verify that it is correct. The first part is a counterfeit machine can't offer an authentic print out, so something as well known a a digital signature would be sufficient if that was the only concern. The second part is that would like to have some high confidence that the work you requested the machine to do (record your vote) has been performed. And finally if information is lost, due to corruption, lack of connectivity, or malicious state actors, then a secondary record that a particular person voted is useful in an investigation and in legal proceedings. But recording a person's identity and their votes is not considered acceptable here.
That I had to explain all this to you is a bit disappointing. You don't need to be "that guy" that is always right on the Internet.
RSS and things built on top of it like Podcasts are good for users. But the technology is bad for advertisers. If you see criticism of RSS, look closely at where it comes from. If it comes from someone trying to sell you something, take their advice with a grain of salt.
It's been said before that advertisers and ad brokers are at a disadvantage with RSS. But Web 2.0 developers that wish to sell frameworks and services are also at a big disadvantage too. You'll see self-described web experts that disregard RSS as being primitive, limited, or no longer relevant. But I have to wonder if this has more to do with such "experts" trying to compete with a free and established technology.
Still, I believe it is inevitable that RSS will die. Take Usenet newsgroups for example, that is basically dead, at least in terms of being a widely used communication hub as it once was. What replaces it? A fractured set of isolated web forums (that includes/. and Reddit). Instead of having a huge global network of message boards, we have tiny isolated communities, and even that medium is dying out. Replaced by the top post schemes of Facebook groups, Google+, and Twitter.
Why did Usenet die? There are many factors, but one of the big ones is that it's hard to get ad revenue from running a news server and easy set up on a web forum.
I use a keyboard that uses hall effect (magnetic) sensors instead of physical contacts. Theoretically it is nearly waterproof and won't wear out, with an exception for the bamboo version.
Hall effect, capacitive sensing, or opto-mechanical are all viable options for keyboards that are more robust than traditional rubber dome keyboards. If there were only a company that prided itself on innovation. It could perhaps make a thinner and lighter version of these designs.
I'm not sure if we've really hit the upper limit for a device that most people use dozens to hundreds of times a day. Seems like a bargain if you compare it to a Macintosh 512K from 1984 that was $2,495.00 (equivalent to $6,169.90 today), and that you weren't likely to use a computer like that more than once or twice a day.
PS - before anyone says PCs were generally cheaper than Macs. An IBM XT that was well equipped was still quite expensive when it was released: "1983: March - IBM announces the IBM PC XT, with a 10 MB hard drive, 128KB RAM and a 360KB floppy drive. It costs US$5000.". I wasn't able to find the price of a 512K or 640K RAM, dual 360KB floppy, and no HDD configuration that I remember better from that era.
Also, I'd like to amend my earlier statement about once a year. I checked and only 2 coworkers have died in the last 7 years while commuting by bicycle. Some others died while on bike trips. And one other died while commuting by motorcycle (great guy, really helped me out in my new role. And he rode the same make motorcycle that I do).
PS- I seem to have a lot of trouble using/. from my smartphone. I think the autocorrect thing causes me to skip over entire words. I'm barely coherent when I use that stupid thing. (smart phone makes you stupid? or at least sound stupid)
I don't to die. About once a year one of my coworkers die.
Also there is an airport in the way, so there is not a very good way between my home and work on surface streets. There is a light rail stop only 3 miles from me, but it runs north-south when I really need to travel west-east.
But other than those logistics riding a bicycle is very nice in San Jose, it's very flat.
I take 50 minutes to get from East San Jose to Santa Clara, a trip of 14 miles. If I go on a Sunday it's less than 15 minutes, 12 if I don't hit any stop lights.
Just a whole lot more people on the roads in San Jose than there were even 5 years ago. The only real difference between San Jose and "real" urban traffic is the rush hour is only bad for a few short periods a day. People who can pick when they travel don't have too many problems. But the worst traffic is when parents are picking up kids and then running them to various after school activities. The area has almost no school busing.
The weather is nice enough too, so you can live in an RV all year around. Only old timers remember snow in Silicon Valley. Nice outdoor weather and lots of affordable restaurants means you can take a quick walk if you don't feel like cooking in your RV.
You seem to have some vague concept that there might be bugs in implementations that are decades old and very very stable. Odd, that.
Unfortunately, I pay per line of code to a third party to do safety audits. My requirements and constraints are different than yours, so you should be less surprised that we came to different decisions.
Put numbers on each face of the cube. You can quickly manipulate the cube on your turn, then roll it like a die. add up all the numbers on a face and that is your result.
It's why JavaScript, PHP, VB.NET, etc exist and are popular. The learning curve isn't so too steep and just about anyone can write small programs in them. If you want to make a large and complex program, well that's a tough job. I guess we should be sorry that we haven't made it easy to do hard things?
Car analogy: It's not too hard for an amateur to make a small steam engine or small electric motor. It's significantly more complex to make a fully working and safe car, that includes engine, brakes, rolling chassis, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, lasting several days on a charge is a neat trick for a smartphone.
What if they made a smartphone that gets security updates for several years?
But Nintendo, Disney, and others own pieces of your childhood. Your childhood doesn't entirely belong to you.
CONSUME
I need to know when a phone gets a notch, or moves the clock to the left side of the status bar.
wow / so innovate / much phone
[insert picture of shiba inu]
That USB adapter hack is pretty crazy. The way backlights work some amount of blue light makes it through, but maybe it isn't enough to matter.
There are screen filters in common use that block blue light, as people have considered it to contribute to eye strain and fatigue for many years. It doesn't totally filter blue light, but it attenuates it significantly.
Time to throw away all this 4K HDR LCD garbage and go back to good old monochrome.
P.S. - Does anyone know how I can hook up a Hercules ISA card to PCIe?
Fuck me. Software has got to be the worst possible form of government.
who cares
Your local police department.
All the US warheads are on Triton and Minuteman III these days. And still nobody has sat in with a bomb, so the original post is kind of a crank.
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke. Russia has man rated rockets to launch them.
Never in history has anyone taken a manned rocket to detonate a nuclear warhead. I can't say that it was never on the drawing board, but it seems like a bonehead idea.
The US's ICBMs fly up to around 1100 km before reentering to strike their targets. That's just above the maximum altitude of the old Shuttle Orbiter, and well beyond the typical operational altitude for most Shuttle missions (320 km).
Can Russia fly higher? probably. But is that a requirement for nukes in space? clearly not. In fact the highest test explosion was at 540 km, and yet about half of the known tests were under 100 km.
well theoretically if I have a printer I can print whatever I want. So given that a voting machine is supposed to be a trusted system that has been audited. Then my receipt needs to have a quick way to verify that it is correct. The first part is a counterfeit machine can't offer an authentic print out, so something as well known a a digital signature would be sufficient if that was the only concern. The second part is that would like to have some high confidence that the work you requested the machine to do (record your vote) has been performed. And finally if information is lost, due to corruption, lack of connectivity, or malicious state actors, then a secondary record that a particular person voted is useful in an investigation and in legal proceedings. But recording a person's identity and their votes is not considered acceptable here.
That I had to explain all this to you is a bit disappointing. You don't need to be "that guy" that is always right on the Internet.
depends on the implementation details. you're making a lot of assumptions.
print out a blockchain and use the paper receipt as proof of work.
(I don't think any machine does that, just throwing out what is theoretically possible if a voting machine did give you some paper)
Maybe he means it's a Möbius strip.
everything is still within the ocean-moderated climate.
Sounds like paradise.
RSS and things built on top of it like Podcasts are good for users. But the technology is bad for advertisers. If you see criticism of RSS, look closely at where it comes from. If it comes from someone trying to sell you something, take their advice with a grain of salt.
It's been said before that advertisers and ad brokers are at a disadvantage with RSS. But Web 2.0 developers that wish to sell frameworks and services are also at a big disadvantage too. You'll see self-described web experts that disregard RSS as being primitive, limited, or no longer relevant. But I have to wonder if this has more to do with such "experts" trying to compete with a free and established technology.
Still, I believe it is inevitable that RSS will die. Take Usenet newsgroups for example, that is basically dead, at least in terms of being a widely used communication hub as it once was. What replaces it? A fractured set of isolated web forums (that includes /. and Reddit). Instead of having a huge global network of message boards, we have tiny isolated communities, and even that medium is dying out. Replaced by the top post schemes of Facebook groups, Google+, and Twitter.
Why did Usenet die? There are many factors, but one of the big ones is that it's hard to get ad revenue from running a news server and easy set up on a web forum.
EX-TER-MIN-ATE!
Dalek Supreme: They cannot escape! Our [legal team] will soon follow them! They will be exterminated! Exterminated! Exterminated!
They rubber domes do wear out though. And the feel is usually not great, but laptops are certainly a place where compromises are often made.
I use a keyboard that uses hall effect (magnetic) sensors instead of physical contacts. Theoretically it is nearly waterproof and won't wear out, with an exception for the bamboo version.
Hall effect, capacitive sensing, or opto-mechanical are all viable options for keyboards that are more robust than traditional rubber dome keyboards. If there were only a company that prided itself on innovation. It could perhaps make a thinner and lighter version of these designs.
I'm not sure if we've really hit the upper limit for a device that most people use dozens to hundreds of times a day. Seems like a bargain if you compare it to a Macintosh 512K from 1984 that was $2,495.00 (equivalent to $6,169.90 today), and that you weren't likely to use a computer like that more than once or twice a day.
PS - before anyone says PCs were generally cheaper than Macs. An IBM XT that was well equipped was still quite expensive when it was released: "1983: March - IBM announces the IBM PC XT, with a 10 MB hard drive, 128KB RAM and a 360KB floppy drive. It costs US$5000.". I wasn't able to find the price of a 512K or 640K RAM, dual 360KB floppy, and no HDD configuration that I remember better from that era.
correction:
I don't [want] to die.
Also, I'd like to amend my earlier statement about once a year. I checked and only 2 coworkers have died in the last 7 years while commuting by bicycle. Some others died while on bike trips. And one other died while commuting by motorcycle (great guy, really helped me out in my new role. And he rode the same make motorcycle that I do).
PS- I seem to have a lot of trouble using /. from my smartphone. I think the autocorrect thing causes me to skip over entire words. I'm barely coherent when I use that stupid thing. (smart phone makes you stupid? or at least sound stupid)
Why don't you ride a bicycle?
I don't to die. About once a year one of my coworkers die.
Also there is an airport in the way, so there is not a very good way between my home and work on surface streets. There is a light rail stop only 3 miles from me, but it runs north-south when I really need to travel west-east.
But other than those logistics riding a bicycle is very nice in San Jose, it's very flat.
I take 50 minutes to get from East San Jose to Santa Clara, a trip of 14 miles. If I go on a Sunday it's less than 15 minutes, 12 if I don't hit any stop lights.
Just a whole lot more people on the roads in San Jose than there were even 5 years ago. The only real difference between San Jose and "real" urban traffic is the rush hour is only bad for a few short periods a day. People who can pick when they travel don't have too many problems. But the worst traffic is when parents are picking up kids and then running them to various after school activities. The area has almost no school busing.
The weather is nice enough too, so you can live in an RV all year around. Only old timers remember snow in Silicon Valley. Nice outdoor weather and lots of affordable restaurants means you can take a quick walk if you don't feel like cooking in your RV.
You seem to have some vague concept that there might be bugs in implementations that are decades old and very very stable. Odd, that.
Unfortunately, I pay per line of code to a third party to do safety audits. My requirements and constraints are different than yours, so you should be less surprised that we came to different decisions.
Put numbers on each face of the cube. You can quickly manipulate the cube on your turn, then roll it like a die. add up all the numbers on a face and that is your result.
It's why JavaScript, PHP, VB.NET, etc exist and are popular. The learning curve isn't so too steep and just about anyone can write small programs in them. If you want to make a large and complex program, well that's a tough job. I guess we should be sorry that we haven't made it easy to do hard things?
Car analogy: It's not too hard for an amateur to make a small steam engine or small electric motor. It's significantly more complex to make a fully working and safe car, that includes engine, brakes, rolling chassis, etc.