You're not allowed to go to Cuba, but many do regardless. You're also not allowed to spend money while there, iirc.
According to the State Department, journalists, government officials, and certain professionals going for academic reasons may travel to Cuba without a specific license from the Treasury Department to do so. Licenses to travel to Cuba are required for people visiting family members, students and instructors participating in programs at least 10 weeks in length, staff from schools sponsoring such programs, researchers, and Cuban scholars teaching or presenting at US colleges or universities. Licenses may also be issued, subject to some limitations, for religious or humanitarian organizations; athletes, actors, singers, and others participating in public performances or exhibitions; and those involved in the export of what goods are allowed through the embargo.
Money can be spent as part of staying there, too. It's kind of hard to eat or get a hotel room or taxi without paying for it.
Because it's an accident waiting to happen. These satellites can cost anywhere from a few hundred million to a billion dollars, and to lose it because a software glitch causes the self-destruct system to go off would be bad. In addition, an explosive self-destruct system could litter orbit with debris.
The best thing to do when a satellite needs to be removed from orbit is to de-orbit it with thrusters. Unfortunately, the computer on this satellite flaked completely soon after launch, and the de-orbit system could not be activated.
TechNet is actually pretty inexpensive, running me $350 per year. For that, I get quick (and usually early) access to most non-development software, some decent archives, and ten licenses for each. I can experiment to my heart's content without having to shell out tens of thousands in licensing fees or pirating the software, so long as I don't use the licenses for production environments.
The drivers that are causing problems with SP1 are mostly with the installers. I thought I saw something recently that named the problem drivers, and they were for fairly uncommon devices, including one particular scanner model. Microsoft feels that they have to do a staged roll-out of driver updates to address these issues, but those of us with TechNet subscriptions are usually savvy enough to get past that kind of thing ourselves, so it is a little annoying.
Office is, and has been for years, the primary non-game breadwinner at Microsoft. The OSes are next, and the middleware falls third (sometimes going negative). Almost everything they do for Internet, though, is at a loss.
It is, but then you have an additional mess at the switch location. What is more likely to happen is that those APs using PoE will not be upgraded to.11n until such time as the switches off of which they feed are upgraded. However, this may, in some circumstances, require that power in the room be upgraded, especially if PoE is used on a wide scale.
Actually, it doesn't cover much of the energy used in planting, care, or harvest, as I referenced only gasoline usage, while most farm equipment uses diesel. Aircraft used to spray the fields use avgas, but this is small in comparison to the amount of diesel used by tractors, combines, and farm and delivery trucks.
How many acres are we going to have to devote to ethanol feedstock to supplant oil?
That depends on the feedstock. We can never do it with corn, as the math just doesn't bear out. Consider the following, based on the recently-published Crop Production 2007 Summary:
Planted area: 93.6 million acres Average yield: 151.1 bushels per acre Total production: 14.1 billion bushels
Ethanol production from corn usually nets about 9.5 liters of ethanol per bushel. A conversion of all of the corn to ethanol would net about 134 billion liters of ethanol. Ethanol has an energy density of 24 MJ/L, and gasoline's is 34.6 MJ/L, so E85 would come in at about 25.6 MJ/L. Daily average gasoline consumption in the US is about 1.47 billion liters per day, or about 50.9 billion MJ. To match that with E85 would require 1.99 billion liters of E85, which would require 1.69 billion liters of ethanol. Unfortunately, converting all of the corn production to ethanol would allow only 79 days of consumption of E85 at current energy use rates.
It's an extreme, unrealistic calculation, as we could never do a complete conversion, and it doesn't factor in energy used for the planting, care, or harvest. But it does help to drive home the point that it's infeasible to use standard plants for ethanol production. Even switching to sugarcane or sugarbeets isn't going to help because of the massive acreage required. The only mechanisms that will be able to reliably replace our reliance on fossil fuels are those that are able to take advantage of volume of organic materials, including excretion methods such as algae and bacteria, and possibly methods such as cellulosic conversion and thermal depolymerization (if they work out profitably).
If you cannot produce the clear text of the messages sent, then you may be in violation. This is why many e-mail encryption solutions are coming or being sold with archival solutions, so that the clear text version of the mail is stored separately and (hopefully) securely for possible retrieval in litigation. IM is only recently getting caught up on this.
It's equivalent, but more precise -- something that you might want and expect in a nuclear engineer. Some atoms oxidize to form ions, and others reduce to form ions. He's just specifying the particular direction.
Linus did a huge mistake, and that doesn't relate to GPLv3: he locked the kernel into a license that CANNOT be changed.
On the contrary, it can be easily changed. All he has to do is republish his code with the desired license attached to it; as copyright holder, he has this right. Code in that release is now subject to the new license. While this may be trickier for someone small to do, Linus can do it very easily with announcements in the normal locations, and if he chooses to go back and do the same with prior kernels, he has that option, too. There may be some issues with how the licenses for other code bits may affect distribution, but we're potentially going to have to deal with that in any case as the GPLv3 becomes more common.
'Damaged beyond repair' is one way of saying it, since the engineers have said that the pumps will, IIRC, seize up, tear away from their mountings, and tear apart the local area, probably causing catastrophic damage to the orbiter and possibly outright destroying it, depending on where it is in flight.
TSA personnel actually start out around $16/hr in SoCal. However, as I understand it, the people doing the behavioral profiling are provided much better training, and some come from law enforcement backgrounds, which gives them some practical experience. The training process does need to be substantive, educating where necessary, honing where possible. But I'd much rather this process than the inanity of the current mechanisms.
How one looks at that equipment is going to depend on how they perceive the police. When I'm near a cop, I trust that person in general to use the equipment in a manner consistent with my safety, so long as I'm not attacking him or someone else. It gives me a sense of protection.
However, other people (including people in my own family) view cops as just looking for a reason to write them up, and see the equipment as a method of intimidation. Most cops that I talk to are happy to help and joined the force because they wanted to help. There are a few of them that are bad apples, but most are on the level.
They do get insular, but most of us do when we have experiences that differ from the norm and we have some people around who understand. When a firewall has to be rebuilt from scratch, I don't call my friends who work in customer service, because they won't understand. I do talk to friends who are at least in IT, because they will. That group tends to also back each other a bit more than others because we understand what can go wrong, and why there are alternative explanations that don't seem likely to the outsider (read: non-technical management), but which are perfectly logical (or at least understandable) to those inside. Cops get like that because they deal up close with people that may shoot them just because they don't want to spend six months in jail, or even just get a speeding ticket. Soldiers involved in combat often do the same thing, commiserating with each other rather than with their spouses, because their spouses won't understand.
I think both groups -- cops and civilians -- need to loosen up some and not be so suspicious. Relaxing the laws will help, as police won't have a long list to work from and civilians won't fear that there's something on the list that they don't know about.
Cloaking yourself with black holes may well end up drawing attention to you. It's a decidedly unnatural arrangement, the poles tend to spew X-rays, and even without that, a hole in space could well draw curiosity. I heard tell of stories of the early days of the Ohio-class boomers which were so quiet that the Soviets looked for dead spots in the water. It wasn't a perfect method, but it sometimes gave more clues as to the location than the US ever planned. Eventually, some method of combating this with white noise or some other similar method was integrated, and the loose tracking stopped.
Or an even worse practice: "bottom-fishing" changelogs and bug trackers in order to discover vulnerabilities that have already been addressed.
I'm not sure that this is necessarily a bad thing, as people with far more time than I to look for how to make trouble for others are doing exactly the same thing.
If I'm running foo 1.3.2, I may miss that 1.3.3 came out, or may disregard it if I don't think it's imperative that I update, watching for 1.4 to come out. There are a lot of disparate systems that I have to watch out for, and it's not uncommon that a minor upgrade is skipped because it does not clearly offer something that I require or fix some problem that I may be experiencing. However, if I see on a mailing list (BugTraq, Secunia, whatever) that it turns out that foo 1.3.2 has a vulnerability that was fixed in 1.3.3, I'm more likely to look into updating.
If an SUV is built on a truck chassis, then it's a truck. However, such vehicles drive like trucks, and have been slowly losing favor for a few years (hence the cross-over lines that are built on car or minivan chassis.) Getting something in the 3- to 4-ton range up to 35mpg is going to be difficult, but with the hybrids coming along (especially the pluggable hybrids), reaching the mark shouldn't be that difficult. If the ultracapacitors that have been discussed over the last couple of months can pan out, it's going to be even easier.
Personally, I believe that the auto manufacturers will do what they have always done with mileage targets: meet them with a couple of years to spare, and without adding any exorbitant cost to the vehicles. They complain basically out of habit right now, but between California's clean air laws and federally-mandated improvements in mileage, they're forced to either move ahead to meet market requirements or perish. If the latter is the case, then so be it. That's how our brand of capitalism works -- provide what the consumer wants within the legal framework, or don't provide anything at all.
Taps are often the recommended method of handling IDS now if you're not doing it in-line. However, if someone can see which ports are mirrored, there's a good chance that they can figure out which interfaces are handling the most traffic, and so more likely to be on IDS (if one's IDS deployment is more on the limited side, that is).
Apparently once again the 35MPG is a "fleet" standard, so not every vehicle has to meet it as long as the fleet as a whole does.
It's very difficult to get some vehicles to that level. While the muscle cars are slowly moving up and will probably reach that mark (and probably well short of 2020), large trucks and SUVs have a lot of mass to move, and there's a legitimate market niche for them. If the company comes up with a couple of vehicles that exceed 50mpg, are you not willing to grant them any concession at all for a larger vehicle that comes up a bit short? (I do agree that any ethanol credit such as you say is in the bill is insane, as ethanol is a complete dead-end and should not get this kind of encouragement.)
And firewalls are capable of and do perform routing. However, most people consider them separate from routers.
I'm glad I read the comments for this story. Pedantry seemed to be on the decline here at Slashdot in recent weeks. Apparently, it was just being stored up.
If an officer pulls the trigger on his service weapon, there's usually (always?) an investigation. If it's determined that the bullet hit something substantial, the officer may be temporarily reassigned to desk duty pending the outcome of the investigation. If a person is hit by the bullet, the officer is just about always reassigned to desk duty, if not given some paid time off.
It's unclear how often taser use is investigated, and while I'm generally favorably minded towards them, it may still be a good idea to review procedures of use and follow-up.
As long as you're bringing up the consequences of failure modes, it should be noted that the most common result from a gas tank failure is the need for the local road crews to bring out sand to absorb it before letting traffic back into the lane. Gas tanks are pierced fairly commonly in collisions, but carbeques are the exception, not the rule.
Canada also has a national debt - about 40% of GDP as I understand.
According to NationMaster, the level of the US public debt is around the same level as that of Austria, France, Canada, Germany, and Portugal, around 65% of the GDP, give or take. These numbers are across different years, but are probably still accurate to within a reasonable degree.
Looking elsewhere, the deficit for FY2007 came in much smaller than predicted at $163 billion, about 1.2% of the GDP for the country. Comparing this to the deficits run by several European countries, such as France (2.5%), Germany (1.7%), and Austria (1.4%), it's not that bad (though it should be a mild surplus). The next year should prove interesting to watch, though, as various financial issues may hit tax revenues. We shall see.
It's not something that I do myself -- I lock it down to a specific size of 2GB on the same drive as the Windows partition. I was using the example of the GP in my post.
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You're not allowed to go to Cuba, but many do regardless. You're also not allowed to spend money while there, iirc.
According to the State Department, journalists, government officials, and certain professionals going for academic reasons may travel to Cuba without a specific license from the Treasury Department to do so. Licenses to travel to Cuba are required for people visiting family members, students and instructors participating in programs at least 10 weeks in length, staff from schools sponsoring such programs, researchers, and Cuban scholars teaching or presenting at US colleges or universities. Licenses may also be issued, subject to some limitations, for religious or humanitarian organizations; athletes, actors, singers, and others participating in public performances or exhibitions; and those involved in the export of what goods are allowed through the embargo.
Money can be spent as part of staying there, too. It's kind of hard to eat or get a hotel room or taxi without paying for it.
Because it's an accident waiting to happen. These satellites can cost anywhere from a few hundred million to a billion dollars, and to lose it because a software glitch causes the self-destruct system to go off would be bad. In addition, an explosive self-destruct system could litter orbit with debris.
The best thing to do when a satellite needs to be removed from orbit is to de-orbit it with thrusters. Unfortunately, the computer on this satellite flaked completely soon after launch, and the de-orbit system could not be activated.
TechNet is actually pretty inexpensive, running me $350 per year. For that, I get quick (and usually early) access to most non-development software, some decent archives, and ten licenses for each. I can experiment to my heart's content without having to shell out tens of thousands in licensing fees or pirating the software, so long as I don't use the licenses for production environments.
The drivers that are causing problems with SP1 are mostly with the installers. I thought I saw something recently that named the problem drivers, and they were for fairly uncommon devices, including one particular scanner model. Microsoft feels that they have to do a staged roll-out of driver updates to address these issues, but those of us with TechNet subscriptions are usually savvy enough to get past that kind of thing ourselves, so it is a little annoying.
Office is, and has been for years, the primary non-game breadwinner at Microsoft. The OSes are next, and the middleware falls third (sometimes going negative). Almost everything they do for Internet, though, is at a loss.
It is, but then you have an additional mess at the switch location. What is more likely to happen is that those APs using PoE will not be upgraded to .11n until such time as the switches off of which they feed are upgraded. However, this may, in some circumstances, require that power in the room be upgraded, especially if PoE is used on a wide scale.
Actually, it doesn't cover much of the energy used in planting, care, or harvest, as I referenced only gasoline usage, while most farm equipment uses diesel. Aircraft used to spray the fields use avgas, but this is small in comparison to the amount of diesel used by tractors, combines, and farm and delivery trucks.
How many acres are we going to have to devote to ethanol feedstock to supplant oil?
That depends on the feedstock. We can never do it with corn, as the math just doesn't bear out. Consider the following, based on the recently-published Crop Production 2007 Summary:
Planted area: 93.6 million acres
Average yield: 151.1 bushels per acre
Total production: 14.1 billion bushels
Ethanol production from corn usually nets about 9.5 liters of ethanol per bushel. A conversion of all of the corn to ethanol would net about 134 billion liters of ethanol. Ethanol has an energy density of 24 MJ/L, and gasoline's is 34.6 MJ/L, so E85 would come in at about 25.6 MJ/L. Daily average gasoline consumption in the US is about 1.47 billion liters per day, or about 50.9 billion MJ. To match that with E85 would require 1.99 billion liters of E85, which would require 1.69 billion liters of ethanol. Unfortunately, converting all of the corn production to ethanol would allow only 79 days of consumption of E85 at current energy use rates.
It's an extreme, unrealistic calculation, as we could never do a complete conversion, and it doesn't factor in energy used for the planting, care, or harvest. But it does help to drive home the point that it's infeasible to use standard plants for ethanol production. Even switching to sugarcane or sugarbeets isn't going to help because of the massive acreage required. The only mechanisms that will be able to reliably replace our reliance on fossil fuels are those that are able to take advantage of volume of organic materials, including excretion methods such as algae and bacteria, and possibly methods such as cellulosic conversion and thermal depolymerization (if they work out profitably).
If you cannot produce the clear text of the messages sent, then you may be in violation. This is why many e-mail encryption solutions are coming or being sold with archival solutions, so that the clear text version of the mail is stored separately and (hopefully) securely for possible retrieval in litigation. IM is only recently getting caught up on this.
It's equivalent, but more precise -- something that you might want and expect in a nuclear engineer. Some atoms oxidize to form ions, and others reduce to form ions. He's just specifying the particular direction.
Linus did a huge mistake, and that doesn't relate to GPLv3: he locked the kernel into a license that CANNOT be changed.
On the contrary, it can be easily changed. All he has to do is republish his code with the desired license attached to it; as copyright holder, he has this right. Code in that release is now subject to the new license. While this may be trickier for someone small to do, Linus can do it very easily with announcements in the normal locations, and if he chooses to go back and do the same with prior kernels, he has that option, too. There may be some issues with how the licenses for other code bits may affect distribution, but we're potentially going to have to deal with that in any case as the GPLv3 becomes more common.
'Damaged beyond repair' is one way of saying it, since the engineers have said that the pumps will, IIRC, seize up, tear away from their mountings, and tear apart the local area, probably causing catastrophic damage to the orbiter and possibly outright destroying it, depending on where it is in flight.
Consoles are inferior, IMHO, for FPS and RTS compared to mouse and keyboard, and there are still games that are released solely for Windows PCs.
TSA personnel actually start out around $16/hr in SoCal. However, as I understand it, the people doing the behavioral profiling are provided much better training, and some come from law enforcement backgrounds, which gives them some practical experience. The training process does need to be substantive, educating where necessary, honing where possible. But I'd much rather this process than the inanity of the current mechanisms.
How one looks at that equipment is going to depend on how they perceive the police. When I'm near a cop, I trust that person in general to use the equipment in a manner consistent with my safety, so long as I'm not attacking him or someone else. It gives me a sense of protection.
However, other people (including people in my own family) view cops as just looking for a reason to write them up, and see the equipment as a method of intimidation. Most cops that I talk to are happy to help and joined the force because they wanted to help. There are a few of them that are bad apples, but most are on the level.
They do get insular, but most of us do when we have experiences that differ from the norm and we have some people around who understand. When a firewall has to be rebuilt from scratch, I don't call my friends who work in customer service, because they won't understand. I do talk to friends who are at least in IT, because they will. That group tends to also back each other a bit more than others because we understand what can go wrong, and why there are alternative explanations that don't seem likely to the outsider (read: non-technical management), but which are perfectly logical (or at least understandable) to those inside. Cops get like that because they deal up close with people that may shoot them just because they don't want to spend six months in jail, or even just get a speeding ticket. Soldiers involved in combat often do the same thing, commiserating with each other rather than with their spouses, because their spouses won't understand.
I think both groups -- cops and civilians -- need to loosen up some and not be so suspicious. Relaxing the laws will help, as police won't have a long list to work from and civilians won't fear that there's something on the list that they don't know about.
Now you're just getting demanding.
Cloaking yourself with black holes may well end up drawing attention to you. It's a decidedly unnatural arrangement, the poles tend to spew X-rays, and even without that, a hole in space could well draw curiosity. I heard tell of stories of the early days of the Ohio-class boomers which were so quiet that the Soviets looked for dead spots in the water. It wasn't a perfect method, but it sometimes gave more clues as to the location than the US ever planned. Eventually, some method of combating this with white noise or some other similar method was integrated, and the loose tracking stopped.
I'm not sure that this is necessarily a bad thing, as people with far more time than I to look for how to make trouble for others are doing exactly the same thing.
If I'm running foo 1.3.2, I may miss that 1.3.3 came out, or may disregard it if I don't think it's imperative that I update, watching for 1.4 to come out. There are a lot of disparate systems that I have to watch out for, and it's not uncommon that a minor upgrade is skipped because it does not clearly offer something that I require or fix some problem that I may be experiencing. However, if I see on a mailing list (BugTraq, Secunia, whatever) that it turns out that foo 1.3.2 has a vulnerability that was fixed in 1.3.3, I'm more likely to look into updating.
If an SUV is built on a truck chassis, then it's a truck. However, such vehicles drive like trucks, and have been slowly losing favor for a few years (hence the cross-over lines that are built on car or minivan chassis.) Getting something in the 3- to 4-ton range up to 35mpg is going to be difficult, but with the hybrids coming along (especially the pluggable hybrids), reaching the mark shouldn't be that difficult. If the ultracapacitors that have been discussed over the last couple of months can pan out, it's going to be even easier.
Personally, I believe that the auto manufacturers will do what they have always done with mileage targets: meet them with a couple of years to spare, and without adding any exorbitant cost to the vehicles. They complain basically out of habit right now, but between California's clean air laws and federally-mandated improvements in mileage, they're forced to either move ahead to meet market requirements or perish. If the latter is the case, then so be it. That's how our brand of capitalism works -- provide what the consumer wants within the legal framework, or don't provide anything at all.
Taps are often the recommended method of handling IDS now if you're not doing it in-line. However, if someone can see which ports are mirrored, there's a good chance that they can figure out which interfaces are handling the most traffic, and so more likely to be on IDS (if one's IDS deployment is more on the limited side, that is).
Apparently once again the 35MPG is a "fleet" standard, so not every vehicle has to meet it as long as the fleet as a whole does.
It's very difficult to get some vehicles to that level. While the muscle cars are slowly moving up and will probably reach that mark (and probably well short of 2020), large trucks and SUVs have a lot of mass to move, and there's a legitimate market niche for them. If the company comes up with a couple of vehicles that exceed 50mpg, are you not willing to grant them any concession at all for a larger vehicle that comes up a bit short? (I do agree that any ethanol credit such as you say is in the bill is insane, as ethanol is a complete dead-end and should not get this kind of encouragement.)
And firewalls are capable of and do perform routing. However, most people consider them separate from routers.
I'm glad I read the comments for this story. Pedantry seemed to be on the decline here at Slashdot in recent weeks. Apparently, it was just being stored up.
If an officer pulls the trigger on his service weapon, there's usually (always?) an investigation. If it's determined that the bullet hit something substantial, the officer may be temporarily reassigned to desk duty pending the outcome of the investigation. If a person is hit by the bullet, the officer is just about always reassigned to desk duty, if not given some paid time off.
It's unclear how often taser use is investigated, and while I'm generally favorably minded towards them, it may still be a good idea to review procedures of use and follow-up.
As long as you're bringing up the consequences of failure modes, it should be noted that the most common result from a gas tank failure is the need for the local road crews to bring out sand to absorb it before letting traffic back into the lane. Gas tanks are pierced fairly commonly in collisions, but carbeques are the exception, not the rule.
Canada also has a national debt - about 40% of GDP as I understand.
According to NationMaster, the level of the US public debt is around the same level as that of Austria, France, Canada, Germany, and Portugal, around 65% of the GDP, give or take. These numbers are across different years, but are probably still accurate to within a reasonable degree.
Looking elsewhere, the deficit for FY2007 came in much smaller than predicted at $163 billion, about 1.2% of the GDP for the country. Comparing this to the deficits run by several European countries, such as France (2.5%), Germany (1.7%), and Austria (1.4%), it's not that bad (though it should be a mild surplus). The next year should prove interesting to watch, though, as various financial issues may hit tax revenues. We shall see.
It's not something that I do myself -- I lock it down to a specific size of 2GB on the same drive as the Windows partition. I was using the example of the GP in my post.