It is not recorded for the same reason that the FBI does not (or did not until recently) record interviews. The officer's report and testimony is assumed to be trustworthy by the court and this presents an avenue to fabricate testimony and discredit inconvenient witnesses. The delay also allows officers to decide together on what to write so they do not contradict each other; they can make up reasons for reasonable suspicion and probable cause after the fact.
One of the problems I had with the MSO5000 is that when the instrument is tilted back allowing easier access to the controls and placement of the keyboard and mouse, torque on the larger probe bodies causes them to separate from the probe interface causing all kinds of problems including crashes. That might work if the retention mechanism of the probe interface was better but with all of that plastic, it is not mechanically sound.
It is the large current that overloads transformers, circuit breakers, and anything else that happens to be connected to the grid. So wrapping a transformer in a Faraday cage would provide no protection as the damage isn't from EMF.
It is not the current itself from the geomagnetic storm which damages the transformer.
What happens is that the low frequency common mode current from the geomagnetic storm moves the B-H curve of the transformer core toward saturation. When that happens, the inductance falls and the existing 60 Hz circulating current increases catastrophically causing failure do to high temperature in the copper windings. If power was removed before this happened, then the transformer would survive.
Unfortunately lead time for constructing the largest transformers is months to years and the US no longer even has the facilities to do so; they have to be imported. The example transformer which failed in the 1989 event was only replaced in a timely manner because there was an suitable unused transformer for a nuclear plant which was cancelled.
The galvanic isolation that ethernet supplies is intended to prevent common mode ground loops over 100 meter distances which is far enough that separate building grounds can be at each end. Once you have to deal with high voltages like lightning, the isolation transformers might as well not exist.
I would settle for one of their lower end MSO/DPO/MDO oscilloscopes but forget the high end like the MSO/DPO5000 which runs Windows 7. At least when I evaluated it, it had all kind of problems.
The kids should be scared, like cry for mommie scared. Getting to the door should be a challenge of their willpower, and the treat a reward for making it without wetting themselves.
We had that happen one year.
We setup our big tesla coil in the yard but it was not the 2 foot sparks coming off of the top which scared them. The design used a very loud spark gap and it was so bright it was lighting up the entire street. We were watching and turning in on from inside the house when we saw kids coming up the path and several times, they just dropped their candy and ran screaming and crying down the street.
A lot of valuable test equipment gets junked this way. On the other hand, if one is vigilant and has the opportunity, it can sometimes be saved and restored providing features which would cost 20 times the price new or even higher.
Test equipment produced starting in the early 1990s is largely unrepairable though so this is a diminishing activity.
The thing I find really annoying is when they cut probe cables or separate probes from their test instruments. Then the equipment often does become junk at any price.
Even if the protections offered by the Whistle-blower Protection Act were not dubious and routinely ineffective, at the time it did not apply to contractors including Snowden. It operates more as a trap to encourage whistle-blowers to reveal themselves so they can be properly persecuted.
In the same way that online ad vendors have demonstrated why add blocking is desirable, Microsoft (and others including Sony) has managed to demonstrate why automatic patching is not. The manufacturers will start using it as a vehicle for push marketing.
Besides do to the number of cycles, lithium secondary batteries wear out as a power function of their voltage so to extend their life, they can be charged to a lower voltage which sacrifices capacity. That is easier to do if you have excess capacity do to enlarged size or the small yearly improvement in energy density. It is rare but some devices have a "long life" mode where the cells are only charged to say 80% of their rated capacity.
Incidentally, ultra-capacitors have a similar operating life versus voltage relationship which lowers their life by 10 times for every 0.2 volt increase in voltage.
I still consider Apple's decision to design in a non-replaceable battery a form of enforced obsolescence. Other companies do the same thing and it is not a new behavior; I know of examples going back decades where this was done deliberately.
The meta-data is what was given to the service provider to route the message like the telephone number, right? That is a pair of IP addresses and nothing else. Since IP encryption does not involve them, what are they complaining about if the encryption only affects data they should need a warrant to seize and search anyway?
What could make wind and solar more expensive in the future?
The cost of the source and load balancing which is currently "free" in the sense that solar and wind and lowering the capacitor factor of base-load and peaking power plants.
Inmates have lower recidivism rates when they keep social contacts with the family and friends. Isolating these people from society by restricting phone calls arbitrarily, and charging extortionate tolls, is not sensible policy.
It is if your job depends on having more criminals.
It is not a violation if they use parallel construction to prevent standing to challenge it in court.
Setup the van to surreptitiously irradiate and inspect people as they pass by. When they stop and search someone based on what they saw, make up some other reason.
It seems, however, that there's a business opportunity for someone who offers micro-apartments with shared common spaces (like some college dorm designs, where four or five people have extremely compact private bedrooms but there's a shared den/kitchen/bathroom. Figure out a way to squeeze it into the size of a moderately sized standard apartment and offer it at a reasonable rate.
I am sure those who are preventing lower cost housing will be thrilled with this idea and support it wholeheartedly.
.Countries with actual gun regulations have this little-known feature - ballistic fingerprinting. Every registered gun is required to get analyzed periodically, so its bullets are traceable. It's not foolproof, but it's fairly reliable if done correctly. Also, microstamping should be mandated for all guns.
Not foolproof? It is not even close to reliable if the perpetrator takes some simple steps.
1. Dispose of the firearm and ammunition. 2. Remove any microstamping. This happens if a gun is well used anyway. 3. Change the characteristics of the rifling, firing pin, extractor, and ejector. This happens if the gun is well used anyway. 4. Do not leave shell casing behind. This is trivial with a revolver but possible with autoloading and other designs. I have done it when target shooting to recover my brass.
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At least with your own servers, you *know* when the government seizes your data. Amazon/Microsoft/Google can just hand it over silently.
It is not recorded for the same reason that the FBI does not (or did not until recently) record interviews. The officer's report and testimony is assumed to be trustworthy by the court and this presents an avenue to fabricate testimony and discredit inconvenient witnesses. The delay also allows officers to decide together on what to write so they do not contradict each other; they can make up reasons for reasonable suspicion and probable cause after the fact.
That *is* odd.
One of the problems I had with the MSO5000 is that when the instrument is tilted back allowing easier access to the controls and placement of the keyboard and mouse, torque on the larger probe bodies causes them to separate from the probe interface causing all kinds of problems including crashes. That might work if the retention mechanism of the probe interface was better but with all of that plastic, it is not mechanically sound.
Sure but it is an extra expense and the extra complexity lowers reliability outside of a Carrington type event.
It is not the current itself from the geomagnetic storm which damages the transformer.
What happens is that the low frequency common mode current from the geomagnetic storm moves the B-H curve of the transformer core toward saturation. When that happens, the inductance falls and the existing 60 Hz circulating current increases catastrophically causing failure do to high temperature in the copper windings. If power was removed before this happened, then the transformer would survive.
Unfortunately lead time for constructing the largest transformers is months to years and the US no longer even has the facilities to do so; they have to be imported. The example transformer which failed in the 1989 event was only replaced in a timely manner because there was an suitable unused transformer for a nuclear plant which was cancelled.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/...
http://www.solarstorms.org/Spo...
The galvanic isolation that ethernet supplies is intended to prevent common mode ground loops over 100 meter distances which is far enough that separate building grounds can be at each end. Once you have to deal with high voltages like lightning, the isolation transformers might as well not exist.
I would settle for one of their lower end MSO/DPO/MDO oscilloscopes but forget the high end like the MSO/DPO5000 which runs Windows 7. At least when I evaluated it, it had all kind of problems.
As much as I like the 7A13 and 7603, a 7L5 or 7L14 with a 7613 and home made sniffer probe would probably be a better choice.
It has? They are still selling them. Maybe I need to buy a spare while I can.
We had that happen one year.
We setup our big tesla coil in the yard but it was not the 2 foot sparks coming off of the top which scared them. The design used a very loud spark gap and it was so bright it was lighting up the entire street. We were watching and turning in on from inside the house when we saw kids coming up the path and several times, they just dropped their candy and ran screaming and crying down the street.
It is when the DNS server is accessed through the VPN service.
A lot of valuable test equipment gets junked this way. On the other hand, if one is vigilant and has the opportunity, it can sometimes be saved and restored providing features which would cost 20 times the price new or even higher.
Test equipment produced starting in the early 1990s is largely unrepairable though so this is a diminishing activity.
The thing I find really annoying is when they cut probe cables or separate probes from their test instruments. Then the equipment often does become junk at any price.
The act's protections did not apply to him as a contractor.
Even if the protections offered by the Whistle-blower Protection Act were not dubious and routinely ineffective, at the time it did not apply to contractors including Snowden. It operates more as a trap to encourage whistle-blowers to reveal themselves so they can be properly persecuted.
This is the same EU that did this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They have burned any trust they may have had. They will just cooperate secretly.
In the same way that online ad vendors have demonstrated why add blocking is desirable, Microsoft (and others including Sony) has managed to demonstrate why automatic patching is not. The manufacturers will start using it as a vehicle for push marketing.
The power may be worth more later making up for the cost of storing it.
"Far Superior" is an exaggeration.
Besides do to the number of cycles, lithium secondary batteries wear out as a power function of their voltage so to extend their life, they can be charged to a lower voltage which sacrifices capacity. That is easier to do if you have excess capacity do to enlarged size or the small yearly improvement in energy density. It is rare but some devices have a "long life" mode where the cells are only charged to say 80% of their rated capacity.
Incidentally, ultra-capacitors have a similar operating life versus voltage relationship which lowers their life by 10 times for every 0.2 volt increase in voltage.
I still consider Apple's decision to design in a non-replaceable battery a form of enforced obsolescence. Other companies do the same thing and it is not a new behavior; I know of examples going back decades where this was done deliberately.
The meta-data is what was given to the service provider to route the message like the telephone number, right? That is a pair of IP addresses and nothing else. Since IP encryption does not involve them, what are they complaining about if the encryption only affects data they should need a warrant to seize and search anyway?
The cost of the source and load balancing which is currently "free" in the sense that solar and wind and lowering the capacitor factor of base-load and peaking power plants.
It is if your job depends on having more criminals.
Someone who wants power loss protection of unwritten data?
It is not a violation if they use parallel construction to prevent standing to challenge it in court.
Setup the van to surreptitiously irradiate and inspect people as they pass by. When they stop and search someone based on what they saw, make up some other reason.
I am sure those who are preventing lower cost housing will be thrilled with this idea and support it wholeheartedly.
Not foolproof? It is not even close to reliable if the perpetrator takes some simple steps.
1. Dispose of the firearm and ammunition.
2. Remove any microstamping. This happens if a gun is well used anyway.
3. Change the characteristics of the rifling, firing pin, extractor, and ejector. This happens if the gun is well used anyway.
4. Do not leave shell casing behind. This is trivial with a revolver but possible with autoloading and other designs. I have done it when target shooting to recover my brass.