I do not know if he changed it but I have one of my great grandfather's ball and peen hammers and I have changed the handle once where I also refinished it and painted it.
Personally, I have a computer that lives in a case I got in 2003. I am on motherboard #4, power supply #2, processor #2, memory modules #6 & #7, hard drives #4 & #5, etc.
My FreeBSD router has been running since about 2000 with a Celeron 300A and Supermicro P6SBA Revision 2.0 motherboard with 384M of ECC SDRAM.
I upgraded the storage from a 600MB hard drive to compact flash a couple years ago for faster booting and lower power. The power supply has been replaced once.
Other than power outages, occasional software updates, and routine maintenance for cleaning dust and maintaining the fans, the only failure has been when the ice machine upstairs sprung a leak which managed to drip right into the case and onto the motherboard. The system was out of operation for about a day to dry out but a backup system was built in about 15 minutes running the same BSD image on a Pentium 4 box.
You're going to tell me that the active investigations along with the potential liability of not holding data for years worth of solved cases was somehow not worth $4000?
What legal liability? Some cases might get dismissed but why would that matter for the police department?
That's because it's not profitable for them. Compared to traffic tickets, this one's a loser. Policing has turned into a profit center.
And it is especially not profitable compared to civil assets forfeiture. Plus there is the added risk of confronting a true criminal to may use lethal force.
Common zener diodes, even "beefy" ones, are not really suitable for high current surge operation. TVS diodes, even low voltage ones which rely on zener breakdown rather than avalanche breakdown, are specially processed and specified to handle high surge currents without damage. Special processing is used to make a more uniform junction preventing hot spots from forming. Avalanche rated rectifiers are processed the same way. (1)
A normal zener can be used with a bipolar transistor to make a power shunt regulator which acts as a high power surge suppressor and transistors are commonly available with much higher current and power ratings than diodes.
Polyfuses are pretty slow and may have undesired voltage drop in some applications. I have designed tough high performance protection circuits before by including active series elements but it is understandable that cheap computing equipment gets by with the bare minimum. Maybe the threat model needs to be updated.
(1) I have taken advantage of this before by using normal zener diodes as "fuses" which short out instead of blowing open thereby acting as a true crowbar.
But idiots clamored for more power by virtue of their numbers. So state governments neutered their own congressional delegations by requiring that they vote for the popular choice.
The result? Trump. And people clamoring for more democracy.
The history of the the 17th amendment is also complex. In a nutshell, the people clamored for direct election to stop corruption. Prior to this, the state legislators chose Senators, which as you can guess meant they were very prone to bribery and intimidation to get certain people selected for the Senate. Also, it was easy for state legislatures to get stuck without choosing anyone because of political infighting, meaning that some states would often not be represented in the Senate for lengths of time while state legislatures argued.
It was an interesting idea, but didn't appear to work out that great in practice, so we changed it. As the Constitution was specifically written to do, via amendments.
A majority of the states already directly elected their US senators before the 17th amendment was ratified.
Sorry? Calling from Canada, here, 35 million people scattered across a larger country than the USA, and we have had the highest immigration rate in the world (nearly 1% of the population, per year) for over 20 years; a quarter of Canada was not born here. Recently, our major donor nations are not European, but all over Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
And we rank pretty high on the index - just above Germany, which is over twice our size and now famous for taking in more refugees than anybody; they've had some cultural strains because of it.
But all that has had nothing to do with their transparency and democracy, or ours.
Canada is larger but most of the population is close to the US border.
I half agree, and I half don't. The 30% CPU speed increases were far more noticeable in the late 90's and early 2000s, but I think you'd be comfortably within the second standard deviation of users who would be able to meaningfully distinguish between 4x2.5ghz cores and 16x3.5ghz cores.
Unfortunately not only have significant CPU speed increases with every generation stopped but increasingly bloated software which slows down with every generation has not.
I suspect that this is why MS is catering to programmers. They are one of the bastions of professional users who also create products for other professional users. If they programmers all go to linux and mac then there is going to be a trend to more and more professional products on those platforms.
Bwhahahahaha, that is funny. Microsoft is pissing off programmers and professional users in the quest to turn the PC into a locked down desk bound tablet. If they continue, we will see a return to the era when CP/M was commonly used for business applications and development work except it will be Linux or anything except Windows.
I went through one but that was enough. PayPal's security is so good that it locked me out of my account and of course now my email is tied to an account that I cannot use.
What I'm now more curious about is the true impact of a $20 million dollar penalty against corporate lying. If it is a mere slap on the wrist financially, then the FTC is doing nothing but encouraging this kind of arrogant fucking behavior by organizations. They are literally perpetuating the concept that it's OK to bullshit and lie about products. If that's the case, you might as well abolish all regulatory agencies.
The impact is becoming far too great to continue to ignore the fact that accountability does not exist within corporations anymore. Neither does ethics. Capitalistic greed has trumped all.
Think of it more as organized crime; only the government is allowed to cheat its citizens and if you want to do that also, then they expect their cut. The difference is that organized crime does not expect its victims to praise it while the government does; when the government cheats you, then it is for your own good.
Telling people not to use WhatsApp is apparently "endangering people"...as it is a "crucial issue".
I do not know if it is happening here but there is actually precedent for security agencies doing this. The next best thing to compromising a secure system is to make the users believe that you have so they change to something less secure.
I went to a thicker phone. Sure, it takes a little more room in my pocket, but it doesn't slip out of my hand while I'm trying to hold it up to my head either.
I liked it because they had "marines" as boarding parties.
Yes, that added a bit of nautical authenticity.
It was more because it is such an obvious thing to have for both attack and defense. Of course using them for attack will be problematical later when shields become ubiquitous preventing transporters from being used but then how is it that they are only used for defense under the same conditions which would allow attack? I liked Enterprise *more* than most of the other series.
I write it up as just another unrealistically idealistic concept in the Star Trek universe along with the usual collection of plot holes and assumptions which make most episodes poor science fiction at best.
The safest thing to do is give him a phone with no sim card, set the shortcut for twitter to open notepad, and let him tweet til his heart is content in that local text file.
You do know that there aren't really aliens right? Humans only have two genders (perhaps 3).
They aren't really aliens because they are all the same species. How that was suppose to be remotely real I have no idea and it among other things makes Star Trek fantasy instead of science fiction. Babylon 5 even teased Star Trek about it.
I also like Enterprise, especially for its "stuff isn't quite ready for space travel" and the Vulcan's "we have to help the poor earthlings and not let them hurt themselves as they venture out" approach. The time travel story line jumped the shark; and the alternate universe one, "In a Mirror, Darkly," involving the Tholian Web and some real promise. A ST:Empire with the Klingons as good guys had a lot of potential.
I liked it because they had "marines" as boarding parties.
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I do not know if he changed it but I have one of my great grandfather's ball and peen hammers and I have changed the handle once where I also refinished it and painted it.
Personally, I have a computer that lives in a case I got in 2003. I am on motherboard #4, power supply #2, processor #2, memory modules #6 & #7, hard drives #4 & #5, etc.
My FreeBSD router has been running since about 2000 with a Celeron 300A and Supermicro P6SBA Revision 2.0 motherboard with 384M of ECC SDRAM.
I upgraded the storage from a 600MB hard drive to compact flash a couple years ago for faster booting and lower power. The power supply has been replaced once.
Other than power outages, occasional software updates, and routine maintenance for cleaning dust and maintaining the fans, the only failure has been when the ice machine upstairs sprung a leak which managed to drip right into the case and onto the motherboard. The system was out of operation for about a day to dry out but a backup system was built in about 15 minutes running the same BSD image on a Pentium 4 box.
You're going to tell me that the active investigations along with the potential liability of not holding data for years worth of solved cases was somehow not worth $4000?
What legal liability? Some cases might get dismissed but why would that matter for the police department?
It it is not sales, then it is overhead.
That's because it's not profitable for them. Compared to traffic tickets, this one's a loser. Policing has turned into a profit center.
And it is especially not profitable compared to civil assets forfeiture. Plus there is the added risk of confronting a true criminal to may use lethal force.
Common zener diodes, even "beefy" ones, are not really suitable for high current surge operation. TVS diodes, even low voltage ones which rely on zener breakdown rather than avalanche breakdown, are specially processed and specified to handle high surge currents without damage. Special processing is used to make a more uniform junction preventing hot spots from forming. Avalanche rated rectifiers are processed the same way. (1)
A normal zener can be used with a bipolar transistor to make a power shunt regulator which acts as a high power surge suppressor and transistors are commonly available with much higher current and power ratings than diodes.
Polyfuses are pretty slow and may have undesired voltage drop in some applications. I have designed tough high performance protection circuits before by including active series elements but it is understandable that cheap computing equipment gets by with the bare minimum. Maybe the threat model needs to be updated.
(1) I have taken advantage of this before by using normal zener diodes as "fuses" which short out instead of blowing open thereby acting as a true crowbar.
But idiots clamored for more power by virtue of their numbers. So state governments neutered their own congressional delegations by requiring that they vote for the popular choice.
The result? Trump. And people clamoring for more democracy.
The history of the the 17th amendment is also complex. In a nutshell, the people clamored for direct election to stop corruption. Prior to this, the state legislators chose Senators, which as you can guess meant they were very prone to bribery and intimidation to get certain people selected for the Senate. Also, it was easy for state legislatures to get stuck without choosing anyone because of political infighting, meaning that some states would often not be represented in the Senate for lengths of time while state legislatures argued.
It was an interesting idea, but didn't appear to work out that great in practice, so we changed it. As the Constitution was specifically written to do, via amendments.
A majority of the states already directly elected their US senators before the 17th amendment was ratified.
Sorry? Calling from Canada, here, 35 million people scattered across a larger country than the USA, and we have had the highest immigration rate in the world (nearly 1% of the population, per year) for over 20 years; a quarter of Canada was not born here. Recently, our major donor nations are not European, but all over Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
And we rank pretty high on the index - just above Germany, which is over twice our size and now famous for taking in more refugees than anybody; they've had some cultural strains because of it.
But all that has had nothing to do with their transparency and democracy, or ours.
Canada is larger but most of the population is close to the US border.
I half agree, and I half don't. The 30% CPU speed increases were far more noticeable in the late 90's and early 2000s, but I think you'd be comfortably within the second standard deviation of users who would be able to meaningfully distinguish between 4x2.5ghz cores and 16x3.5ghz cores.
Unfortunately not only have significant CPU speed increases with every generation stopped but increasingly bloated software which slows down with every generation has not.
I suspect that this is why MS is catering to programmers. They are one of the bastions of professional users who also create products for other professional users. If they programmers all go to linux and mac then there is going to be a trend to more and more professional products on those platforms.
Bwhahahahaha, that is funny. Microsoft is pissing off programmers and professional users in the quest to turn the PC into a locked down desk bound tablet. If they continue, we will see a return to the era when CP/M was commonly used for business applications and development work except it will be Linux or anything except Windows.
"Out of sight, out of mind."
Translation:
"Invisible idiot."
I went through one but that was enough. PayPal's security is so good that it locked me out of my account and of course now my email is tied to an account that I cannot use.
You do realize that every time scientists mess with hydrogen things tend to go boom?
And Nazis. But oddly enough not Nazi scientists.
I have had it in for the seagulls since one stole a french fry from me.
They they do not want a wind farm to be visible from their property, then they can buy the property that the wind farm would be located on.
I'm still catching up to fruits being vegetables.
What I'm now more curious about is the true impact of a $20 million dollar penalty against corporate lying. If it is a mere slap on the wrist financially, then the FTC is doing nothing but encouraging this kind of arrogant fucking behavior by organizations. They are literally perpetuating the concept that it's OK to bullshit and lie about products. If that's the case, you might as well abolish all regulatory agencies.
The impact is becoming far too great to continue to ignore the fact that accountability does not exist within corporations anymore. Neither does ethics. Capitalistic greed has trumped all.
Think of it more as organized crime; only the government is allowed to cheat its citizens and if you want to do that also, then they expect their cut. The difference is that organized crime does not expect its victims to praise it while the government does; when the government cheats you, then it is for your own good.
So are trips on the bus in Japan a waste of time time or do their phones have insufficient battery capacity?
Telling people not to use WhatsApp is apparently "endangering people"...as it is a "crucial issue".
I do not know if it is happening here but there is actually precedent for security agencies doing this. The next best thing to compromising a secure system is to make the users believe that you have so they change to something less secure.
I went to a thicker phone. Sure, it takes a little more room in my pocket, but it doesn't slip out of my hand while I'm trying to hold it up to my head either.
You are holding it wrong.
I liked it because they had "marines" as boarding parties.
Yes, that added a bit of nautical authenticity.
It was more because it is such an obvious thing to have for both attack and defense. Of course using them for attack will be problematical later when shields become ubiquitous preventing transporters from being used but then how is it that they are only used for defense under the same conditions which would allow attack? I liked Enterprise *more* than most of the other series.
I write it up as just another unrealistically idealistic concept in the Star Trek universe along with the usual collection of plot holes and assumptions which make most episodes poor science fiction at best.
The safest thing to do is give him a phone with no sim card, set the shortcut for twitter to open notepad, and let him tweet til his heart is content in that local text file.
Wouldn't it be safer to give him an etch-a-sketch?
I recall an episode of Enterprise where there was a three gender race too, with the third gender being treated as little more than a breeding animal.
It was too bad they did not take that to the extreme (or not extreme since it actually exists) that Niven did with the Puppeteers.
You do know that there aren't really aliens right? Humans only have two genders (perhaps 3).
They aren't really aliens because they are all the same species. How that was suppose to be remotely real I have no idea and it among other things makes Star Trek fantasy instead of science fiction. Babylon 5 even teased Star Trek about it.
I also like Enterprise, especially for its "stuff isn't quite ready for space travel" and the Vulcan's "we have to help the poor earthlings and not let them hurt themselves as they venture out" approach. The time travel story line jumped the shark; and the alternate universe one, "In a Mirror, Darkly," involving the Tholian Web and some real promise. A ST:Empire with the Klingons as good guys had a lot of potential.
I liked it because they had "marines" as boarding parties.