Services providers can keep whatever records they like (with a few odd exceptions). It's up to their privacy agreement whether or not they actually do anything with it, commercially speaking. AFAIK there is nothing requiring a service provider to save this type of information, so it is possible the LEA can obtain a warrant only to get the response, "Are you crazy? We don't have the storage space to maintain that kind of trivial information!". LEAs gets this response all the time for warrants on ISPs; check CALEA for more information on what capabilities mobile operators must provide in the US.
precedent is a legal term. Just because a senario is obviously protected by the 4th amendment does not mean the senario has been explicitly tested in court. This article is just saying "now this one has". The only argument against this ruling is the one jrockway presents just above.
I can picture it now! We'll call them "firemen" and they'll wear a badge that says "451". I mean, if we're gonna do it, we may as well do it with some style!
More wasted research money! Before even reading TFA I could've written it on pure conjecture. "If ur a dummy who doesn't know how to use email notifications or filters, you waste ur timez!"
Newsflash, if you don't like your job, you'll FIND something to waste your time (*cough* slashdot), and no amount of research or policy enforcement will stop that. And if you're being interrupted by actual important emails, then they're actual important emails, and the interruptions are necessary and justified.
I use pricewatch.com to find the cheapest vendor for one or two of the higher ticket items. If I'm trying to keep my vendor list short, I then investigate the prices of those winning vendors for the other items on my shopping list and compare those prices against pricewatch's best. For big price hikes, I use separate vendors; if it's only a few bucks, I keep the vendor list low.
I just gotta say, I love it when I can guess what goofy tags an article is gonna have just by reading the first sentence. PLANETES is a phenomenal show; a must-see for any astronautics/space geek; whether you consider yourself an anime fan or not. The premise of dealing with the serious problem of space debris is brilliant. Most important to me, it is one of the few space dramas that actually strives to get all the physics right; no sound in space, conservation of momentum, etc. I haven't seen anything that has come close to it since Kubrick's 2001.
Thank you for mentioning that, I couldn't agree more. As I understand it, the early days of pressure cookers caused many fatalities.
Also a note to anyone interested that for pressurizing larger items, one usually uses an autoclave, which can be found as large as a schoolbus to pressure cure things like fiberglass boat hulls.
Molding & Casting (through replica propwork and creature prosthetic effecs) is a hobby of mine, so here's what I know about resins. Maybe it will help
Epoxy resin is good at holding up to high temperatures. It comes in a variety of cure times and is available in small quantities at hardware stores and large quantities at marine supply stores. The fumes are smelly and unsafe, but they at least dissapate soon after curing.
Polyester resin (aka fiberglass resin) is cheaper than epoxy. It is generally weaker. It's fumes are quite nasty and hang around for days, so it's really an outside thing. It's probably no good for this task as uncured resin ravenously dissolves polystyrene (I don't know if PCs ahve polystyrene, but I wouldn't risk it).
Polyurethane resins come in the widest variety of formulations. It varies from hard as rock to a very flexible rubber, and any mixture inbetween. It is very low odor, but the fumes are still nothing to mess around with. Some formulations use metal fillers like aluminum (reduces shrinkage/thermal warping), so look out for that. It will certainly shrink a bit, so thicker coatings should be done with more flexible varieties. Shrinkage can be reduced by adding loose chopped fiberglass, though this does raise thickness.
Silicone rubber, particularly Platinum cure silicone has low to zero shrinkage. It's also by far the least toxic. It's also the most expensive by volume. again wide range of cure times, thickness/thixotropy can be adjusted by adding fumed silica (just don't breath the stuff). It is thermally resistive, so you will want to keep coatings thin, and suppliment it with submersion. Still, if I was tinkering around with such hardhacks, I suspect I'd go this route. Silicone is a great electrical resistor and has fantastic waterproofing abilities
for thin coats of any of these materials, you'll want to brush or spray the liquid to minimize airbubbles. All types resins have sprayable formulations, either by using specialty spray devices sold by the resin manufacturer, or by thinning the resin with the appropriate solvent. The more solvent you add, the more shrinkage is an issue, which is supplanted by applying thin coats in good ventilation.
I've done business with all the major online (US) retailers. I've had excellent experiences with all of them; be sure to take advantage of personal customer support. For more information check out http://polytek.com/http://smoothon.com/ and http://tapplastics.com/
There are alternatives to vacuum degassing for removing airbubbles/pinhole flaws. What is often done is to use pressure instead of vacuum, in a device called a "pressure pot". instead of trying to pull a vacuum on an object the size of a desktop, it is MUCH cheaper to put it in a pressurized chamber. This has the effect of bringing the air bubbles into solution so when the resin has cured the airbubbles are shrunk to a nonexistent size. Usually in molding and casting, you just vacuum degas the mixed resin in a bucket; then carefully pour the mixture and pressurize the mold. I've been considering homebrewing a vacuum chamber for exactly this reason recently, and the quality of pump needed to pull a sufficient vacuum to degas resin is hundreds of dollars more than a compressor sufficient to bring a chamber up to 30 PSI. Granted, in either case, the chamber isn't cheap. Pressure pots are usually made from cast aluminum, but you can get away with using modified pressure cookers or other devices if you are clever (and careful!).
Most resins outgas really nasty fumes. Smell-wise, epoxy resin isn't nearly as bad as polyester (aka fiberglass) resin IMHO. Any major resin work should be done outside or in a professionally designed cross-ventilated room. A carbon respirator is also worth its weight in gold. Cancer and Nerological damage are pretty good things to avoid.
I wonder about that. Sure silicone oil is a lovely nonelectroconductive fluid (though it also evaporates). My concern is that silicone oil weakens or dissolves any silicone rubber present on the board. I know most components are insulated with PVC, but is anyone certain there are no critical silicone components on a MB?
Curses you beat me! Fluorinert has definately got it's advantages. Once you get past the enormous startup costs, all you'd need is an appropriately sized radiator outside and the cost to run a liquid pump at a surprisingly low volume.
aw come on, the iPhone can ACCESS "the entire Internet". They've got an IP stack, all is happy. There's no promise that the iPhone will know what to do with the bits once they actually ARRIVE! I'm no iphone guy but if they just include a decent copy of telnet, so long as you can read ascii encoded hex and type REALLY fast integrating knowledge of whatever protocol is involved, then you technically have the WHOLE Internet!
Look, you know-it-all science type, maybe YOUR great great great grandfather was a phone sanitizer, but not MINE! I believe what I was brought up to believe, praise Jeebus!
Yes, but Neanderthals open sourced the design of their tools. Unfortunately, the designs are considered not as user-friendly and the better advertised homo sapien tools prevail. The good news is, I just read an article telling me that this is FINALLY The Year of Neanderthal Tools!
I'm just south of you in Baltimore and I LOFF my FIOS. I also love Comcast begging me to take them back claiming 1Mbps faster than fios, and telling them "Sure, as soon as you give me a signed statement promising not to throttle my torrent traffic or anything else."
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Services providers can keep whatever records they like (with a few odd exceptions). It's up to their privacy agreement whether or not they actually do anything with it, commercially speaking. AFAIK there is nothing requiring a service provider to save this type of information, so it is possible the LEA can obtain a warrant only to get the response, "Are you crazy? We don't have the storage space to maintain that kind of trivial information!". LEAs gets this response all the time for warrants on ISPs; check CALEA for more information on what capabilities mobile operators must provide in the US.
precedent is a legal term. Just because a senario is obviously protected by the 4th amendment does not mean the senario has been explicitly tested in court. This article is just saying "now this one has". The only argument against this ruling is the one jrockway presents just above.
I can picture it now! We'll call them "firemen" and they'll wear a badge that says "451". I mean, if we're gonna do it, we may as well do it with some style!
Nuclear technician, spaceflight experience. Not as proficient as the inanimate carbon rod, but who is?
Handset and aligator clips for phone sex....I guess that makes this a HARD-HACK *Rimshot*
More wasted research money! Before even reading TFA I could've written it on pure conjecture. "If ur a dummy who doesn't know how to use email notifications or filters, you waste ur timez!"
Newsflash, if you don't like your job, you'll FIND something to waste your time (*cough* slashdot), and no amount of research or policy enforcement will stop that. And if you're being interrupted by actual important emails, then they're actual important emails, and the interruptions are necessary and justified.
I use pricewatch.com to find the cheapest vendor for one or two of the higher ticket items. If I'm trying to keep my vendor list short, I then investigate the prices of those winning vendors for the other items on my shopping list and compare those prices against pricewatch's best. For big price hikes, I use separate vendors; if it's only a few bucks, I keep the vendor list low.
I just gotta say, I love it when I can guess what goofy tags an article is gonna have just by reading the first sentence. PLANETES is a phenomenal show; a must-see for any astronautics/space geek; whether you consider yourself an anime fan or not. The premise of dealing with the serious problem of space debris is brilliant. Most important to me, it is one of the few space dramas that actually strives to get all the physics right; no sound in space, conservation of momentum, etc. I haven't seen anything that has come close to it since Kubrick's 2001.
Thank you for mentioning that, I couldn't agree more. As I understand it, the early days of pressure cookers caused many fatalities.
Also a note to anyone interested that for pressurizing larger items, one usually uses an autoclave, which can be found as large as a schoolbus to pressure cure things like fiberglass boat hulls.
I'm glad you know that. However, polyester resin is popularly used WITH fiberglass, so some companies call it "fiberglass resin".
Molding & Casting (through replica propwork and creature prosthetic effecs) is a hobby of mine, so here's what I know about resins. Maybe it will help
Epoxy resin is good at holding up to high temperatures. It comes in a variety of cure times and is available in small quantities at hardware stores and large quantities at marine supply stores. The fumes are smelly and unsafe, but they at least dissapate soon after curing.
Polyester resin (aka fiberglass resin) is cheaper than epoxy. It is generally weaker. It's fumes are quite nasty and hang around for days, so it's really an outside thing. It's probably no good for this task as uncured resin ravenously dissolves polystyrene (I don't know if PCs ahve polystyrene, but I wouldn't risk it).
Polyurethane resins come in the widest variety of formulations. It varies from hard as rock to a very flexible rubber, and any mixture inbetween. It is very low odor, but the fumes are still nothing to mess around with. Some formulations use metal fillers like aluminum (reduces shrinkage/thermal warping), so look out for that. It will certainly shrink a bit, so thicker coatings should be done with more flexible varieties. Shrinkage can be reduced by adding loose chopped fiberglass, though this does raise thickness.
Silicone rubber, particularly Platinum cure silicone has low to zero shrinkage. It's also by far the least toxic. It's also the most expensive by volume. again wide range of cure times, thickness/thixotropy can be adjusted by adding fumed silica (just don't breath the stuff). It is thermally resistive, so you will want to keep coatings thin, and suppliment it with submersion. Still, if I was tinkering around with such hardhacks, I suspect I'd go this route. Silicone is a great electrical resistor and has fantastic waterproofing abilities
for thin coats of any of these materials, you'll want to brush or spray the liquid to minimize airbubbles. All types resins have sprayable formulations, either by using specialty spray devices sold by the resin manufacturer, or by thinning the resin with the appropriate solvent. The more solvent you add, the more shrinkage is an issue, which is supplanted by applying thin coats in good ventilation.
I've done business with all the major online (US) retailers. I've had excellent experiences with all of them; be sure to take advantage of personal customer support. For more information check out http://polytek.com/ http://smoothon.com/ and http://tapplastics.com/
There are alternatives to vacuum degassing for removing airbubbles/pinhole flaws. What is often done is to use pressure instead of vacuum, in a device called a "pressure pot". instead of trying to pull a vacuum on an object the size of a desktop, it is MUCH cheaper to put it in a pressurized chamber. This has the effect of bringing the air bubbles into solution so when the resin has cured the airbubbles are shrunk to a nonexistent size. Usually in molding and casting, you just vacuum degas the mixed resin in a bucket; then carefully pour the mixture and pressurize the mold. I've been considering homebrewing a vacuum chamber for exactly this reason recently, and the quality of pump needed to pull a sufficient vacuum to degas resin is hundreds of dollars more than a compressor sufficient to bring a chamber up to 30 PSI. Granted, in either case, the chamber isn't cheap. Pressure pots are usually made from cast aluminum, but you can get away with using modified pressure cookers or other devices if you are clever (and careful!).
Most resins outgas really nasty fumes. Smell-wise, epoxy resin isn't nearly as bad as polyester (aka fiberglass) resin IMHO. Any major resin work should be done outside or in a professionally designed cross-ventilated room. A carbon respirator is also worth its weight in gold. Cancer and Nerological damage are pretty good things to avoid.
I wonder about that. Sure silicone oil is a lovely nonelectroconductive fluid (though it also evaporates). My concern is that silicone oil weakens or dissolves any silicone rubber present on the board. I know most components are insulated with PVC, but is anyone certain there are no critical silicone components on a MB?
Curses you beat me! Fluorinert has definately got it's advantages. Once you get past the enormous startup costs, all you'd need is an appropriately sized radiator outside and the cost to run a liquid pump at a surprisingly low volume.
aw come on, the iPhone can ACCESS "the entire Internet". They've got an IP stack, all is happy. There's no promise that the iPhone will know what to do with the bits once they actually ARRIVE! I'm no iphone guy but if they just include a decent copy of telnet, so long as you can read ascii encoded hex and type REALLY fast integrating knowledge of whatever protocol is involved, then you technically have the WHOLE Internet!
Look, you know-it-all science type, maybe YOUR great great great grandfather was a phone sanitizer, but not MINE! I believe what I was brought up to believe, praise Jeebus!
From TFA (but not really): "Curiously, they poo facing South-Southeast..."
Conclusion, stand a safe distance from rotating cows.
Don't make fun of my small brain size you insensitive clod!
-Yo-Yo Ma
Yes, but Neanderthals open sourced the design of their tools. Unfortunately, the designs are considered not as user-friendly and the better advertised homo sapien tools prevail. The good news is, I just read an article telling me that this is FINALLY The Year of Neanderthal Tools!
I'm just south of you in Baltimore and I LOFF my FIOS. I also love Comcast begging me to take them back claiming 1Mbps faster than fios, and telling them "Sure, as soon as you give me a signed statement promising not to throttle my torrent traffic or anything else."
It is the entire motivation behind Mandatory Fun Day.
Aw man: I just lost The Game.
Compiling!
....Oh....carry on.
Yes, good idea! I'm going to start my OWN standards organization. With hookers!...And blackjack!...In fact, forget the standards!