Quantum physics was evolving as Einstein was doing his work, but it left Einstein feeling uneasy. Given that Einstein grew up learning a fairly Newtonian view of the world, it's understandable that he was hesitant to leave all of it behind even as he was redefining much of it. Although perhaps he didn't view it as redefining, but rather (consciously or unconsciously) refining, whereas quantum mechanics really are a redefinition of the laws of physics.
So, I presume it's also wrong to modify any code. Hell, we should just chuck out the whole "open source" movement. I mean, making any mod eradicates the artistic intention of the original author.
Open-source licenses generally explicitly allow the downstream user to alter the work, provided certain requirements are met, such as preserving copyright notices and licenses, so your point falls flat.
And if I had a 9 yr old kid. I'd probably like to pass on the scene as well.
I'm relaying the story as it was told to me a decade ago. Some of the details may be lost, but the fact that stall speed is lower doesn't negate the presence of a stall speed.
Incidentally, I passed the written test at the time with flying colors, but didn't have the money to undertake the practical side.
Because we're omnivores that have had meat in our diets for most of the last two million years.
Then again, based the URL you have, you're a lot like the guy with whom I had a fairly pointless debate on Technocrat a few weeks ago. He maintained that just because we'd been eating meat for two million years didn't mean that we were designed to eat meat, and that if we just got rid of all meat we'd get rid of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other economic and health issues. It was my position that we are omnivores, that our anatomy is based on an omnivorous diet, and that eating vegetarian/vegan is a choice. It can be a healthy choice, so long as it's entered into when well-informed of the sources of certain essential nutrients, but it's still a choice.
Indeed, the very site to which you link is being disingenuous with its quote on the main page:
"The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong direction.... Three glasses of low-fat milk add more than 300 calories a day. This is a real issue for the millions of Americans who are trying to control their weight. What's more, millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and even small amounts of milk or dairy products give them stomachaches, gas, or other problems. This recommendation ignores the lack of evidence for a link between consumption of dairy products and prevention of osteoporosis. It also ignores the possible increases in risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer associated with dairy products."
I went and looked up the source for that quote, and found the following further down in the article:
Dairy or Calcium Supplement (1 to 2 times). Building bone and keeping it strong takes calcium, vitamin D, exercise, and a whole lot more. Dairy products have traditionally been Americans' main source of calcium. But there are other healthy ways to get calcium than from milk and cheese, which can contain a lot of saturated fat. Three glasses of whole milk, for example, contains as much saturated fat as 13 strips of cooked bacon. If you enjoy dairy foods, try to stick with no-fat or low-fat products. If you don't like dairy products, calcium supplements offer an easy and inexpensive way to get your daily calcium.
While the site does point out the downsides of certain dairy products and that its nutrients can be gotten from other sources, it does not say that they should be outright avoided. The above quote mentions the fat content of whole milk, while most people I know drink 2% or 1% milk, and a growing number of them drink non-fat milk. Low-fat ice cream is just as tasty as -- and often identically priced to -- normal ice cream.
There are plenty of good arguments in favor of a veg diet. Resorting to half-truths and out-of-context quotes doesn't do anything to bolster them.
Actually, that's exactly what it's called -- a ground-effect airplane or a ground-effect aircraft. The advantages are there -- safer in the event of a catastrophic loss of power (due to only falling a few hundred feet at most), able to move huge masses with more conventionally-sized wings, and less detailed training for the crew. However, I recall that fuel efficiency and noise become a problem, as does dust kick-up on overland routes.
An amusing anecdote that I heard in ground school had to do with the maiden flight of what would become the U-2. The take-off and initial cruise tests worked out fine, but when it came in to land, the ground effect wouldn't let the plane low enough to land. Even sitting right at the stall line with the stall alarm buzzing at him, the pilot just couldn't get the thing down. Eventually, he brought it a little below stall speed and smacked it down rather hard, reportedly to the severe dismay and annoyance of the ground crew. Lockheed responded by doing some work on the wings to allow a more normal landing.
When I used to hear it, I always figured that Truth and Justice are largely universal, and that the American Way stood for the methods by which those were safeguarded in the United States. Haven't thought much about the phrase in years, though.
Even if they do salt their passwords, access to a few decent servers for a couple of weeks negates that if you know the salt and can generate the rainbow hashes on your own.
Just poor wording on the part of the author. Colon may have been provided access to the database by that FBI employee, and used a Perl script or any of several apps that can do their own SQL-connections to pull the data, only part of which would have been the hash.
And just for some additional information for others not familiar with this kind of thing, there are dozens of programs that can do brute-force comparisons. It's also possible that he just used a rainbow table, which are available on (sometimes more than one) DVD for relatively small sums for the comparison. With a few really good computers, or a distributed computing project, it's not terribly hard to build up a sizable rainbow table in a relatively short period of time.
A few years ago, one of the roving salespeople calls from Oklahoma into the help desk where I was working and complained that he couldn't get his e-mail, which contained something very important for a meeting he had scheduled for about an hour later. Finding that his account was at the servers in our Houston office, he was told that the e-mail wouldn't be accessible for another couple of days, because the facility was shut down due to severe flooding from a massive storm, and that the last report we had from a few hours prior had indicated four to five feet of water on the first floor (the servers were on the third or fourth floor). He insisted that he needed these e-mails, dammit, and that someone had better find a boat, go down there, and turn them back on so he could get them. It was again patiently explained that no one could turn them on, power was out in the whole area, and until the floodwaters receded, it would not be possible. At this point, he demanded that someone be contacted, that he knew the CEO, and that this was going to happen one way or the other. At this point, he was given the company cell number of the facilities manager and the IT manager for the Houston office, and invited to call them, as well as the CEO if it made him feel any better. I'm not sure what the final resolution was, but since the Houston office didn't come back up until three days later, I suspect he didn't get his e-mail.
Definitely among the more amusing calls while I was there.
As the consultants put it, "A well-designed and managed food & beverage operation can generate a 40+% profit after deducting cost-of-goods-sold and labor. Ban the words 'snack bar' and 'concession' from your vocabulary. Think café and restaurant instead."
They're probably right. That's something an arcade can deliver that you can't get at home.
When Virtual World was still around, I used to go down to the Costa Mesa location even when I didn't have the $8 to play a mission. I'd go up to the bar and get an iced tea for $2 (or something like that) and maybe some bread sticks, and talk and joke with the other players and the techs for an hour. Occasionally, one of the players would spring for a mission or two for me, which was cool.
I'd gladly go back if something like that were re-opened.
The United States has refused to sign the provision because to do so would require dismantling the minefield that separates the two Koreas, something which most experts acknowledge has been a major factor keeping the bulk of North Korea's army on its side of the fence. That minefield would wreak havoc with the largely infantry force that would probably be used.
On the other hand, it may well be argued that the minefield on the northern side of the border has kept some of the more aggressive military leaders from calling for an invasion of North Korea.
MetalStorm came up with an idea a few years ago that would have a series of launchers pose as a targeted minefield. Hidden by appropriate camoflauge, it would have sensors that would detect the approach of enemy vehicles (and possibly soldiers). It would identify the vehicles based on the sensor input (visual, thermal, acoustic, seismic) and determine based on other factors, such as soldiers walking nearby, how many, what type, and what pattern of munitions to use to destroy the force. For example, a wide-spread infantry walking along with supporting APCs/IFVs would garner a wide spread of fragmentation munitions, with narrow spreads of armor piercing munitions. The system could be cleaned up and recovered by a couple of soldiers and a truck afterward (just don't use a truck from the enemy's stores).
The price of the books is a real issue (I intend to use the Sony Reader for the significant number of technical papers I have, plus a number of classic books from the Gutenberg Project, among other places, and may well drop a note to the publishers about the prices they want to charge), but the device readability is the star here. PDAs will last most of a day, whereas the battery life of such readers is measured in page turns -- typically several thousand of them. They're reflective instead of backlit, which means that they can be used in bright light, unlike PDAs. Finally, the form factor is designed to be more comfortable to read than a PDA.
I read documents on my computer and used to on a PDA all the time. With the PDA, I can't keep my attention because I have to flip to a new page so often, and the form factor isn't quite right for comfort. On computers, it's better since I can look at more text at a time, but the inability to take it some places due to battery life combined with the weight factor (my notebook weighs about seven pounds) just makes it too inconvenient for constant use.
Except, of course, for creating the largest public health care segment in decades -- the Medicare prescription plan.
Axe social security? Check.
Except, of course, that this went down to defeat with even the Republicans in Congress showing moderately strong opposition to it.
Axe public education? They're most certainly working on it.
Except, of course, that more money goes into the public education system from the federal government than ever before. Federal spending on pre-university education in terms of percent GDP rose by more than 40% from 2000 to 2006, and up by about two-thirds in 2000 dollars.
Ignore urgent need to invest in renewable resources? Check.
The US has nearly 17,000 generators combining for a total nameplate output of more than a million megawatts, of which almost 11,000 are fossil fueled plants with nameplate capacities of about 825,000 megawatts. Converting that takes time, and at the moment, there isn't enough renewable capacity to even dent that, though there are certainly attempts going on, including the Dept of Energy assisting with a non-PV solar plant in Southern California that will have a rated capacity of about 500MW. There has also been significant work done to smooth the process for getting nuclear plants approved, however, so with some luck, we'll be able to take a nice chunk out with that. It's not renewable (not in the conventional sense), but it's a lot more stable than wind and solar.
You're granted the license to use the program. You don't own the license. The license may be removed by the copyright owner if you violate the EULA, which is akin to land in a fiefdom that can be removed if you cross the rules of the owning lord.
A few hours of firing the gun could record all possible grips that one could use.
Except a stress grip, which is the most important to have and most difficult to duplicate, at least for someone who has never been under fire -- which is the majority of cops, and virtually all rookies.
Well I define highly reliable as a 99.99% success rate.
The technology has never been tested in the field, with real officers putting it through the same stresses that they would place on a conventional firearm. Until then, any numbers about reliability are theoretical at best.
Smart gun technology will do little for the straw purchasing problem, because one of the most likely designs uses a ring to identify an authorized shooter. That ring can simply be passed on to the buyer. Other methods require either an implanted chip, which has its own, well-documented social stigma, or grip palm sensors, which become a potential problem if the weapon is drawn in a stress situation and the palm is not seated properly.
In all cases for police, a doubling is required (two rings, two chips, or two palm records) to allow for off-hand shooting. Each weapon also has to be matched to at least the officer's partner, if not to multiple partners or even an entire precinct to allow for emergency situations.
Electronically-fired weapons may be better, but you're going to have a very, very hard time convincing police of this.
Less recoil? I can see firing faster using a Metalstorm gun, and a lack of mechanical variance boosting accuracy (though it would only be detectable in the sharpest of shooters), but I fail to see how there would be less recoil for what is substantially the same round.
Your expectations are incorrect. Police want a gun that will fire when they need it to do so, and the don't want to have to worry that it will not fire because of a lack of a clean grip, a dead battery, or EM interference.
Police don't want to be shot by their own weapons. They are more worried about being shot because their own weapons refuse to fire. New Jersey's own legislation requiring smart gun technology be incorporated in all firearms sold three years after the state attorney general decides that it is viable, commercially available, and reliable, has an exemption in it for law enforcement officers specifically because the police organizations in that state demanded it.
Your own information source shows that an officer is far more likely to be killed by something other than his or her own firearm. In 2004, there were seven LEOs feloniously killed by their own firearms out of 54 total felonious deaths by firearm -- seven by their own firearm, and 47 by another, or nearly seven times more likely to be killed by another weapon.
When an officer holds a weapon, he wants it to work as expected. When on the range and it malfunctions, that's a nuisance. When in a possible defense situation and it malfunctions, that's potentially deadly.
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And yet the police are the first group to demand exemptions from legal requirements placed on gun owners. They don't want rings that authenticate the firing party, they want to keep high-capacity magazines, and they want to maintain access to weapons that civilians cannot usually buy.
How about a new stack and a completely new firewall which might actually remove the need for a 3rd party firewall.
I like what I'm seeing in Vista, but the firewall is perhaps the worst-implemented feature. When installing the client software for Checkpoint this last week, I was able to make a connection and get the key signature back for verification before the firewall asked if I wanted to block the program. No firewall should EVER let traffic out before it's been explicitly authorized. While I'm glad that it has some basic firewall capabilities, it can't be that hard to block a packet before it goes out.
The regulations are not always clear-cut. I suspect that if we routed PBX voice over that, SBC would still be required to provide CALEA access even though the lines are not accessible to the public because they're a commercial provider. The post to which I'd originally responded wanted a blanked QoS block on all telco lines. I was merely pointing out that this is not an effective remedy due to the mixed business of the telcos.
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Plus, ain't you ever thrown anything at a balloon? It'll just bounce off, man ;D
I did once. I missed and hit my brother in the head. He cried, I got grounded.
Quantum physics was evolving as Einstein was doing his work, but it left Einstein feeling uneasy. Given that Einstein grew up learning a fairly Newtonian view of the world, it's understandable that he was hesitant to leave all of it behind even as he was redefining much of it. Although perhaps he didn't view it as redefining, but rather (consciously or unconsciously) refining, whereas quantum mechanics really are a redefinition of the laws of physics.
No, but it does sound more terrifying. Big words scare people.
Open-source licenses generally explicitly allow the downstream user to alter the work, provided certain requirements are met, such as preserving copyright notices and licenses, so your point falls flat.
It was rated PG-13.
I'm relaying the story as it was told to me a decade ago. Some of the details may be lost, but the fact that stall speed is lower doesn't negate the presence of a stall speed.
Incidentally, I passed the written test at the time with flying colors, but didn't have the money to undertake the practical side.
Then again, based the URL you have, you're a lot like the guy with whom I had a fairly pointless debate on Technocrat a few weeks ago. He maintained that just because we'd been eating meat for two million years didn't mean that we were designed to eat meat, and that if we just got rid of all meat we'd get rid of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other economic and health issues. It was my position that we are omnivores, that our anatomy is based on an omnivorous diet, and that eating vegetarian/vegan is a choice. It can be a healthy choice, so long as it's entered into when well-informed of the sources of certain essential nutrients, but it's still a choice.
Indeed, the very site to which you link is being disingenuous with its quote on the main page:
I went and looked up the source for that quote, and found the following further down in the article:
While the site does point out the downsides of certain dairy products and that its nutrients can be gotten from other sources, it does not say that they should be outright avoided. The above quote mentions the fat content of whole milk, while most people I know drink 2% or 1% milk, and a growing number of them drink non-fat milk. Low-fat ice cream is just as tasty as -- and often identically priced to -- normal ice cream.
There are plenty of good arguments in favor of a veg diet. Resorting to half-truths and out-of-context quotes doesn't do anything to bolster them.
Actually, that's exactly what it's called -- a ground-effect airplane or a ground-effect aircraft. The advantages are there -- safer in the event of a catastrophic loss of power (due to only falling a few hundred feet at most), able to move huge masses with more conventionally-sized wings, and less detailed training for the crew. However, I recall that fuel efficiency and noise become a problem, as does dust kick-up on overland routes.
An amusing anecdote that I heard in ground school had to do with the maiden flight of what would become the U-2. The take-off and initial cruise tests worked out fine, but when it came in to land, the ground effect wouldn't let the plane low enough to land. Even sitting right at the stall line with the stall alarm buzzing at him, the pilot just couldn't get the thing down. Eventually, he brought it a little below stall speed and smacked it down rather hard, reportedly to the severe dismay and annoyance of the ground crew. Lockheed responded by doing some work on the wings to allow a more normal landing.
When I used to hear it, I always figured that Truth and Justice are largely universal, and that the American Way stood for the methods by which those were safeguarded in the United States. Haven't thought much about the phrase in years, though.
Even if they do salt their passwords, access to a few decent servers for a couple of weeks negates that if you know the salt and can generate the rainbow hashes on your own.
Just poor wording on the part of the author. Colon may have been provided access to the database by that FBI employee, and used a Perl script or any of several apps that can do their own SQL-connections to pull the data, only part of which would have been the hash.
And just for some additional information for others not familiar with this kind of thing, there are dozens of programs that can do brute-force comparisons. It's also possible that he just used a rainbow table, which are available on (sometimes more than one) DVD for relatively small sums for the comparison. With a few really good computers, or a distributed computing project, it's not terribly hard to build up a sizable rainbow table in a relatively short period of time.
A few years ago, one of the roving salespeople calls from Oklahoma into the help desk where I was working and complained that he couldn't get his e-mail, which contained something very important for a meeting he had scheduled for about an hour later. Finding that his account was at the servers in our Houston office, he was told that the e-mail wouldn't be accessible for another couple of days, because the facility was shut down due to severe flooding from a massive storm, and that the last report we had from a few hours prior had indicated four to five feet of water on the first floor (the servers were on the third or fourth floor). He insisted that he needed these e-mails, dammit, and that someone had better find a boat, go down there, and turn them back on so he could get them. It was again patiently explained that no one could turn them on, power was out in the whole area, and until the floodwaters receded, it would not be possible. At this point, he demanded that someone be contacted, that he knew the CEO, and that this was going to happen one way or the other. At this point, he was given the company cell number of the facilities manager and the IT manager for the Houston office, and invited to call them, as well as the CEO if it made him feel any better. I'm not sure what the final resolution was, but since the Houston office didn't come back up until three days later, I suspect he didn't get his e-mail.
Definitely among the more amusing calls while I was there.
As the consultants put it, "A well-designed and managed food & beverage operation can generate a 40+% profit after deducting cost-of-goods-sold and labor. Ban the words 'snack bar' and 'concession' from your vocabulary. Think café and restaurant instead."
They're probably right. That's something an arcade can deliver that you can't get at home.
When Virtual World was still around, I used to go down to the Costa Mesa location even when I didn't have the $8 to play a mission. I'd go up to the bar and get an iced tea for $2 (or something like that) and maybe some bread sticks, and talk and joke with the other players and the techs for an hour. Occasionally, one of the players would spring for a mission or two for me, which was cool.
I'd gladly go back if something like that were re-opened.
The United States has refused to sign the provision because to do so would require dismantling the minefield that separates the two Koreas, something which most experts acknowledge has been a major factor keeping the bulk of North Korea's army on its side of the fence. That minefield would wreak havoc with the largely infantry force that would probably be used.
On the other hand, it may well be argued that the minefield on the northern side of the border has kept some of the more aggressive military leaders from calling for an invasion of North Korea.
MetalStorm came up with an idea a few years ago that would have a series of launchers pose as a targeted minefield. Hidden by appropriate camoflauge, it would have sensors that would detect the approach of enemy vehicles (and possibly soldiers). It would identify the vehicles based on the sensor input (visual, thermal, acoustic, seismic) and determine based on other factors, such as soldiers walking nearby, how many, what type, and what pattern of munitions to use to destroy the force. For example, a wide-spread infantry walking along with supporting APCs/IFVs would garner a wide spread of fragmentation munitions, with narrow spreads of armor piercing munitions. The system could be cleaned up and recovered by a couple of soldiers and a truck afterward (just don't use a truck from the enemy's stores).
The price of the books is a real issue (I intend to use the Sony Reader for the significant number of technical papers I have, plus a number of classic books from the Gutenberg Project, among other places, and may well drop a note to the publishers about the prices they want to charge), but the device readability is the star here. PDAs will last most of a day, whereas the battery life of such readers is measured in page turns -- typically several thousand of them. They're reflective instead of backlit, which means that they can be used in bright light, unlike PDAs. Finally, the form factor is designed to be more comfortable to read than a PDA.
I read documents on my computer and used to on a PDA all the time. With the PDA, I can't keep my attention because I have to flip to a new page so often, and the form factor isn't quite right for comfort. On computers, it's better since I can look at more text at a time, but the inability to take it some places due to battery life combined with the weight factor (my notebook weighs about seven pounds) just makes it too inconvenient for constant use.
Axe public health? Check.
Except, of course, for creating the largest public health care segment in decades -- the Medicare prescription plan.
Axe social security? Check.
Except, of course, that this went down to defeat with even the Republicans in Congress showing moderately strong opposition to it.
Axe public education? They're most certainly working on it.
Except, of course, that more money goes into the public education system from the federal government than ever before. Federal spending on pre-university education in terms of percent GDP rose by more than 40% from 2000 to 2006, and up by about two-thirds in 2000 dollars.
Ignore urgent need to invest in renewable resources? Check.
The US has nearly 17,000 generators combining for a total nameplate output of more than a million megawatts, of which almost 11,000 are fossil fueled plants with nameplate capacities of about 825,000 megawatts. Converting that takes time, and at the moment, there isn't enough renewable capacity to even dent that, though there are certainly attempts going on, including the Dept of Energy assisting with a non-PV solar plant in Southern California that will have a rated capacity of about 500MW. There has also been significant work done to smooth the process for getting nuclear plants approved, however, so with some luck, we'll be able to take a nice chunk out with that. It's not renewable (not in the conventional sense), but it's a lot more stable than wind and solar.
You're granted the license to use the program. You don't own the license. The license may be removed by the copyright owner if you violate the EULA, which is akin to land in a fiefdom that can be removed if you cross the rules of the owning lord.
Because the statutes probably make exceptions for dash-mounted cameras.
A few hours of firing the gun could record all possible grips that one could use.
Except a stress grip, which is the most important to have and most difficult to duplicate, at least for someone who has never been under fire -- which is the majority of cops, and virtually all rookies.
Well I define highly reliable as a 99.99% success rate.
The technology has never been tested in the field, with real officers putting it through the same stresses that they would place on a conventional firearm. Until then, any numbers about reliability are theoretical at best.
Smart gun technology will do little for the straw purchasing problem, because one of the most likely designs uses a ring to identify an authorized shooter. That ring can simply be passed on to the buyer. Other methods require either an implanted chip, which has its own, well-documented social stigma, or grip palm sensors, which become a potential problem if the weapon is drawn in a stress situation and the palm is not seated properly.
In all cases for police, a doubling is required (two rings, two chips, or two palm records) to allow for off-hand shooting. Each weapon also has to be matched to at least the officer's partner, if not to multiple partners or even an entire precinct to allow for emergency situations.
Electronically-fired weapons may be better, but you're going to have a very, very hard time convincing police of this.
Less recoil? I can see firing faster using a Metalstorm gun, and a lack of mechanical variance boosting accuracy (though it would only be detectable in the sharpest of shooters), but I fail to see how there would be less recoil for what is substantially the same round.
Your expectations are incorrect. Police want a gun that will fire when they need it to do so, and the don't want to have to worry that it will not fire because of a lack of a clean grip, a dead battery, or EM interference.
Police don't want to be shot by their own weapons. They are more worried about being shot because their own weapons refuse to fire. New Jersey's own legislation requiring smart gun technology be incorporated in all firearms sold three years after the state attorney general decides that it is viable, commercially available, and reliable, has an exemption in it for law enforcement officers specifically because the police organizations in that state demanded it.
Your own information source shows that an officer is far more likely to be killed by something other than his or her own firearm. In 2004, there were seven LEOs feloniously killed by their own firearms out of 54 total felonious deaths by firearm -- seven by their own firearm, and 47 by another, or nearly seven times more likely to be killed by another weapon.
When an officer holds a weapon, he wants it to work as expected. When on the range and it malfunctions, that's a nuisance. When in a possible defense situation and it malfunctions, that's potentially deadly.
And yet the police are the first group to demand exemptions from legal requirements placed on gun owners. They don't want rings that authenticate the firing party, they want to keep high-capacity magazines, and they want to maintain access to weapons that civilians cannot usually buy.
How about a new stack and a completely new firewall which might actually remove the need for a 3rd party firewall.
I like what I'm seeing in Vista, but the firewall is perhaps the worst-implemented feature. When installing the client software for Checkpoint this last week, I was able to make a connection and get the key signature back for verification before the firewall asked if I wanted to block the program. No firewall should EVER let traffic out before it's been explicitly authorized. While I'm glad that it has some basic firewall capabilities, it can't be that hard to block a packet before it goes out.
The regulations are not always clear-cut. I suspect that if we routed PBX voice over that, SBC would still be required to provide CALEA access even though the lines are not accessible to the public because they're a commercial provider. The post to which I'd originally responded wanted a blanked QoS block on all telco lines. I was merely pointing out that this is not an effective remedy due to the mixed business of the telcos.