Watertight cable penetrations are normal on most vessels I've worked on - mostly for fire and flammable gas control rather than for water control, but both purposes are served by the same "MCT" blocks (Multiple Cable Transit).
And what a pig they are to work with too. A great disincentive to fucking with the wiring loom.
Yes. Post-nature began shortly before the invention of agriculture.
FTFY
Accepting that the "invention" of agriculture took place multiple times in multiple places over periods of centuries, however there is also fairly good evidence that people were artificially selecting plant population properties for a considerable period before going about deliberately planting them. Particular plant types which were eaten at hunter-gatherer camps are relatively concentrated in middens and shit-piles, where they sometimes germinate, thus providing a ready-made stock of plant genotypes which previous members of this particular clan found edible, enticing or just simply available.
The shortest period of time between arrival of humans in a region and the development of agriculture in that region was probably in Central America, with a mere 5000-odd years between human arrival and the development of agriculture (which itself took thousands of years, before the European massacres started.)
The co-evolution of predator and prey is too well-known to need further description. Humans were probably significantly affecting their prey populations before they were human.
It wasn't a joke and it's certainly not funny. Israel is considered friendly in spite of [blah]
Considered friendly by whom? The septics may be in the pocket of the Israelis, but most of the rest of the world is deeply distrustful of them (septics and Israelis, both).
I suppose the main thing is that Israel is mostly white.
And Russian. Don't forget that something like a third of the Israeli population were born in Russia or FSU countries. I got more practice with my Russian while working in Israel than I did while working in Russia.
but purely because it would be so retarded that people would know you were doing a Jeremy Clarkson style troll immediately.
Is that extended fuckwit, Clarkson, still broadcasting? I know that repeats of his shows are still going, because I see them occasionally when channel-surfing. But I immediately turn to something else to deny him re-broadcast fees. Personally, I'd go and dig up dead trade unionist friend so I can put a gun in their (rotten) hands and gut-shoot the lanky shithead.
But that assumes that anyone (alive) knows where my trade unionist friends are buried. And it assumes that Clarkshit has any guts to shoot. At least one of those requirements is not met.
If I ever meet Clarkshit, I'll have to punch him. Being a lanky bastard, it'll be in the balls, but that's probably good. For me.
You're confusing a correction of your likely factual errors with an expression of anger. It's an expression of boredom at the repetitiveness of the situation.
You're right - I'm not the one who shat in your porridge. Look closer to home.
And how is this (your liability for child porn) a concern for the makers and sellers of this (proposed) software?
Citation please for cases where the death penalty has been carried out for 500g of cannabis leaf (what I assume you mean by "leaf"). And this affects people who aren't utter idiots, just how?
s/accident/design/ ; taking photos without the knowledge of the model is the entire point of the system.
this system takes a picture of an under age child with less than 100% clothing coverage
You shop for clothes at Niqabs'r'Us ?
Mr Arora's system just made a child porn image. I suspect that Singapore has strict liability and very harsh penalties for such crimes.
Which the EULA of the software bundled with the hardware has very carefully assigned back to the person who accepted the EULA. And the law system relevant to the EULA will be the laws that the final version chooses to operate under, not the law system that the EULA-accepter necessarily expects. (what happens to the EULA-accepter may be governed by their local laws ; not the EULA-writer's problem).
The ballot boxes don't leave the room, and enough observers to prevent collusion must be present at all times.
So... one way that an election could be invalidated would be to have colluding people asserting allegiance to various of the parties (err, how many do you have? 3, 4, 5?) socially engineer their way into position as observers,
then one of them leaves, making the observers inquorate. So, the election stops.
A replacement observer is found ; the election re-starts.
A second observer departs ; the election re-stops.
Lather, rinse, repeat, until you've run out of pre-placed social engineers, or the ward (whatever your local term is) is simply discounted from the election.
Appropriate gerrymandering could then provide significant manipulation of the election result. If you're responsive to exit polls, then you might be able to bring the number of social engineers down significantly, provided that you can move your assets (observers, so far in good standing) around.
This system also assumes that the ballot is counted where the votes are cast. That may be the habit in your jurisdiction, but it is by no means universal. Ballots in transit are very vulnerable to being adjusted, and many people have died for observing or documenting such electoral fraud.
How would the "observers" who sabotage the election justify their participation in the fraud? That's not remotely difficult - god (Allah, Jahweh, Krishna, or any one of nine billion alternatives,all infallibly correct and all different) could tell them to do it, and as long as it got the theocracy into power, no consequences could be anticipated. (If persecution followed... well, martyrs get a direct line to the good sort of immortality anyway.) After all, it's not as if there is anything religiously sanctioned about democracy over any other form of government.
If you're travelling faster than a wave propagates, you compress it until something goes boom. That happens in stages, and the one people are most familiar with is the sonic boom. I'd imagine an optical boom would be seriously devastating.
Not knowing Tim Ward's history, but I do recall my surprise at discovering that in the curriculum of the country that I moved to for university there was actually a separate course of study for "Arithmetic", distinct from "Mathematics". Then, to my further astonishment, my informant told me that it was actually possible to fail the examination for this qualification.
This was, unsurprisingly, as the poor lass struggled (and failed) to calculate amounts of change at the cafeteria, because the till had died. She ended up having to ask people to just be honest. Which probably worked.
(BTW, his observation that real mathematicians can't do arithmetic is spot on. IMHO. But they can generally get away with it, unlike checkout girls.)
We should try to mandate that more domestically drawn oil is kept for domestic use!!
You filthy, perverted, disgusting... pinko... communist... thing. Do you want the government to get the idea that we like them interfering with the free market? Why, next thing you'll be up to is stopping us sending little boys up chimneys to sweep them and then selling them to the Africans when they're too dirty to sell as food.
but why would you need to have a file dated in the 17th century?
I deal with data whose comprehensiveness and detail (generally) increases with time. I work in a subject where important, empirical data has been collected and recorded (and taxed) since Roman times. I can perfectly well see that I'd specify applications for reporting the changing state of our understanding of a particular area. And one place to put the "this record was generated at this time" meta data would be in the file timestamp.
It's pretty unlikely that I'd need something that went beyond the working range of the Julian date. It's pretty unlikely that I'd come within several millennia of testing the limits of such a filesystem. Hmmm, is that enough lee way? Probably, but I'm not sure. I'd have to look at things in more detail than is warrented for an off-the-cuff posting on Slashdot.
Meanwhile, it's back to a bodged-together solution to a fucked-up data provider who can't store data for longer than 20 days, on an opertion that is pushing 70 days now, and continuing.
most people expect a house to last about the lifetime of a generation.
Speak for yourself and the society you're posting to (did you perhaps mean to log into slashdot.org.us instead of slashdot.org?). I'm typing in a house that is [calculates] 73 years old ; I grew up in a house that is (currently) 140-odd years old. I think the newest house I've ever lived in is now 46 years old.
Depending on who you ask, a generation is typically considered to be somewhere betwen 20 and 25 years (pushing 30 years in some societies, and generally rising).
A house that only lasted a generation would probably be described as defective (here), and may not have outlived of it's builder's warranty. Cue lawyers.
They still sell snake oil and execute the innocent and the retarded.
If you've got snakes, make snake oil?
No one is innocent.
Retards are guilty of not having families rich enough to afford half-way decent lawyers and psychiatrist mouthpieces, otherwise they'd be allowed out on parole, wouldn't they? QED
Texas is a fine upstanding example to the rest of the world. Quite what it's an example of is another question.
Things get even worse if you have users from different timezones.
Where did the "if" come from? In my country, a minimal business case is almost certainly going to have to deal with people from this country and on the continental mainland, and so deal with a minimum of two time zones and four DST shifts per year. (There's a real possibility of Scotland having to schism from the UK in terms of time zoning if Westminster goes ahead with it's proposals for double-winter time, leaving us with sunrise at 10:00 local time in mid-winter, and a safe expectation of dozens of deaths per year. Not likely to be accepted, so even if England moves onto CET, we're likely to stay on a more westerly time zone. What Wales chooses to do in that case will be interesting to see.). If you're in America, then you've got 3 or 4 different time zones to contend with, if not in your immediate users, then in your suppliers, customers, or regulatory agencies. (I'm almost inclined to ask if Alaska extends over several time zones? It should do, considering it's latitude and size, but would make for even more confusion.) In my day to day work, I'm typically working across 4 time zones, and have worked across 10 time zones. But our pet programmers never expected that and have to be repeatedly reminded that the company's target is "World Domination, without undue delay," so we're still contending with incoherent and and inconsistent handling of date-time data.
Oh, I'm sorry ; I just realised that you're programming Quechua spelling-checkers, for the Chilean and Peruvian market. So, for you, multiple time zones really aren't an issue, like they would be for any more widely-spread language (or country).
Well, you're (deliberately) pushing the boundaries of the practical definition of "species". In theory, if the genetic codes are sufficiently similar to allow the production of fertile offspring (an important part of the definition), then you could argue that the two are actually the same species. But the chances of that happening are astronomically low. Given, for example, that life on Earth uses 20 amino acids (each with an associated ribosome for transcription) out of a gamut of 3-dozen-or-so amino acids that have been detected on Earth in meteorite remains, and there seems to be no particularly good reason for most of those to be used (compared to similar ones in the available gamut which are not used). That suggests a combinatorially large space for potential mismatch. Even assuming that the alien genetic material is identical to ours (same base-pairs ; same sugars ; same epigenetic tagging and packaging), there's little reason to believe that the same genetic encoding would be arrived at (the one that we use appears to be a fairly optimised error-minimising code ; but with 64 codons available for 20-odd values... the likelihood of exactly the same coding being used, particularly for the less common amino acids, is pretty low.
That would be an interesting test case to have. It's got the possibility of ending up with male and female human beings being considered separate species. Which, considering that I've got a Torchwood DVD playing, seems to be a well-exercised trope (just what are Cap'n Jack and Ianto up to, apart from having fun?)
In other SF (and it is all fiction), the problem is got round by having a mutual common ancestor (with some alien species to distribute the prototype lifeforms around the universe, galaxy, "quadrant", or whatever. It's less unlikely than panspermia, after all.
The only way that Assange could be extradited to the US is:
[Cases 1 and 2.]
And case 3 : Assange is extradited to Sweden, and while undergoing investigation there, a pre-existing case emerges (perhaps from a previously sealed, notarised etc case file? Hmmm?) in US-controlled territory, with US-ian witnesses and probably US-managed forensic evidence. This case is so much more severe that the US authorities can "queue up" a formally correct extradition request in Sweden, which would get Assange into their hands legally. The Swedes then dismiss the standing (just) case against Assange, who is then free to leave... straight into the hands of the Swedish Police who execute the completely-separate-and-utterly-unrelated-save-by-a-coincidence-of-timing warrent. His extradition procedes with reasonable haste (so as to not prolong his period of uncertainty in detention), and some hours later Assange finds himself on a CIA plane back to face his death sentence (in another sealed case file).
In case 2, this is so unlikely to happen that you might as well be worrying about a Martian invasion, as well.
And case 3, described above, is well within the range of duplicitous activity to be expected from the governement that runs places like Guantanamo.
We'd drive around at night, and if someone came at us with their high beams on, he'd do the customary quick flash to alert them. If they still didn't lower them, he'd turn his headlights off.
... he was a tad nuts
Was that the good Mr "Dalek", by any chance? Polish family, I forget his real name, which was unspellable and unpronouncable to a Briton. Hence "Dalek".
He theft-proofed his Mini by taking the steering wheel off when he parked up, but then lost the wheel when drunk one night. So he steered with a pair of mole grips attached to the steering column for a couple of months at least. Until next MOT time.
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And what a pig they are to work with too. A great disincentive to fucking with the wiring loom.
I'd volunteer. Appropriate industrial experience ; plenty of remote site operations experience ; no undue concerns about radiation.
FTFY
Accepting that the "invention" of agriculture took place multiple times in multiple places over periods of centuries, however there is also fairly good evidence that people were artificially selecting plant population properties for a considerable period before going about deliberately planting them. Particular plant types which were eaten at hunter-gatherer camps are relatively concentrated in middens and shit-piles, where they sometimes germinate, thus providing a ready-made stock of plant genotypes which previous members of this particular clan found edible, enticing or just simply available.
The shortest period of time between arrival of humans in a region and the development of agriculture in that region was probably in Central America, with a mere 5000-odd years between human arrival and the development of agriculture (which itself took thousands of years, before the European massacres started.)
The co-evolution of predator and prey is too well-known to need further description. Humans were probably significantly affecting their prey populations before they were human.
Considered friendly by whom? The septics may be in the pocket of the Israelis, but most of the rest of the world is deeply distrustful of them (septics and Israelis, both).
And Russian. Don't forget that something like a third of the Israeli population were born in Russia or FSU countries. I got more practice with my Russian while working in Israel than I did while working in Russia.
There is significant international trust in the US for the US to lose?
That's a surprise.
Is this your Kool-Aid? Drink up!
Is that extended fuckwit, Clarkson, still broadcasting? I know that repeats of his shows are still going, because I see them occasionally when channel-surfing. But I immediately turn to something else to deny him re-broadcast fees. Personally, I'd go and dig up dead trade unionist friend so I can put a gun in their (rotten) hands and gut-shoot the lanky shithead.
But that assumes that anyone (alive) knows where my trade unionist friends are buried. And it assumes that Clarkshit has any guts to shoot. At least one of those requirements is not met.
If I ever meet Clarkshit, I'll have to punch him. Being a lanky bastard, it'll be in the balls, but that's probably good. For me.
You're right - I'm not the one who shat in your porridge. Look closer to home.
Citation please for cases where the death penalty has been carried out for 500g of cannabis leaf (what I assume you mean by "leaf"). And this affects people who aren't utter idiots, just how?
s/accident/design/ ; taking photos without the knowledge of the model is the entire point of the system.
You shop for clothes at Niqabs'r'Us ?
Which the EULA of the software bundled with the hardware has very carefully assigned back to the person who accepted the EULA. And the law system relevant to the EULA will be the laws that the final version chooses to operate under, not the law system that the EULA-accepter necessarily expects. (what happens to the EULA-accepter may be governed by their local laws ; not the EULA-writer's problem).
So ... one way that an election could be invalidated would be to have colluding people asserting allegiance to various of the parties (err, how many do you have? 3, 4, 5?) socially engineer their way into position as observers,
Lather, rinse, repeat, until you've run out of pre-placed social engineers, or the ward (whatever your local term is) is simply discounted from the election.
Appropriate gerrymandering could then provide significant manipulation of the election result. If you're responsive to exit polls, then you might be able to bring the number of social engineers down significantly, provided that you can move your assets (observers, so far in good standing) around.
This system also assumes that the ballot is counted where the votes are cast. That may be the habit in your jurisdiction, but it is by no means universal. Ballots in transit are very vulnerable to being adjusted, and many people have died for observing or documenting such electoral fraud.
How would the "observers" who sabotage the election justify their participation in the fraud? That's not remotely difficult - god (Allah, Jahweh, Krishna, or any one of nine billion alternatives,all infallibly correct and all different) could tell them to do it, and as long as it got the theocracy into power, no consequences could be anticipated. (If persecution followed ... well, martyrs get a direct line to the good sort of immortality anyway.) After all, it's not as if there is anything religiously sanctioned about democracy over any other form of government.
That'll be fine, as long as it fries all the bloody leaky WiFi shit that is driving radio reception to shit.
The term that you're looking for is "Cherenkov Radiation".
This was, unsurprisingly, as the poor lass struggled (and failed) to calculate amounts of change at the cafeteria, because the till had died. She ended up having to ask people to just be honest. Which probably worked.
(BTW, his observation that real mathematicians can't do arithmetic is spot on. IMHO. But they can generally get away with it, unlike checkout girls.)
You filthy, perverted, disgusting ... pinko ... communist ... thing. Do you want the government to get the idea that we like them interfering with the free market? Why, next thing you'll be up to is stopping us sending little boys up chimneys to sweep them and then selling them to the Africans when they're too dirty to sell as food.
Socialist!
Because they have got guns?
Was that some plagiarism of Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" ? (1967, IIRC)
I deal with data whose comprehensiveness and detail (generally) increases with time. I work in a subject where important, empirical data has been collected and recorded (and taxed) since Roman times. I can perfectly well see that I'd specify applications for reporting the changing state of our understanding of a particular area. And one place to put the "this record was generated at this time" meta data would be in the file timestamp.
It's pretty unlikely that I'd need something that went beyond the working range of the Julian date. It's pretty unlikely that I'd come within several millennia of testing the limits of such a filesystem. Hmmm, is that enough lee way? Probably, but I'm not sure. I'd have to look at things in more detail than is warrented for an off-the-cuff posting on Slashdot.
Meanwhile, it's back to a bodged-together solution to a fucked-up data provider who can't store data for longer than 20 days, on an opertion that is pushing 70 days now, and continuing.
Speak for yourself and the society you're posting to (did you perhaps mean to log into slashdot.org.us instead of slashdot.org?). I'm typing in a house that is [calculates] 73 years old ; I grew up in a house that is (currently) 140-odd years old. I think the newest house I've ever lived in is now 46 years old.
Depending on who you ask, a generation is typically considered to be somewhere betwen 20 and 25 years (pushing 30 years in some societies, and generally rising).
A house that only lasted a generation would probably be described as defective (here), and may not have outlived of it's builder's warranty. Cue lawyers.
Texas is a fine upstanding example to the rest of the world.
Quite what it's an example of is another question.
Where did the "if" come from? In my country, a minimal business case is almost certainly going to have to deal with people from this country and on the continental mainland, and so deal with a minimum of two time zones and four DST shifts per year. (There's a real possibility of Scotland having to schism from the UK in terms of time zoning if Westminster goes ahead with it's proposals for double-winter time, leaving us with sunrise at 10:00 local time in mid-winter, and a safe expectation of dozens of deaths per year. Not likely to be accepted, so even if England moves onto CET, we're likely to stay on a more westerly time zone. What Wales chooses to do in that case will be interesting to see.).
If you're in America, then you've got 3 or 4 different time zones to contend with, if not in your immediate users, then in your suppliers, customers, or regulatory agencies. (I'm almost inclined to ask if Alaska extends over several time zones? It should do, considering it's latitude and size, but would make for even more confusion.) In my day to day work, I'm typically working across 4 time zones, and have worked across 10 time zones. But our pet programmers never expected that and have to be repeatedly reminded that the company's target is "World Domination, without undue delay," so we're still contending with incoherent and and inconsistent handling of date-time data.
Oh, I'm sorry ; I just realised that you're programming Quechua spelling-checkers, for the Chilean and Peruvian market. So, for you, multiple time zones really aren't an issue, like they would be for any more widely-spread language (or country).
That would be an interesting test case to have. It's got the possibility of ending up with male and female human beings being considered separate species. Which, considering that I've got a Torchwood DVD playing, seems to be a well-exercised trope (just what are Cap'n Jack and Ianto up to, apart from having fun?)
In other SF (and it is all fiction), the problem is got round by having a mutual common ancestor (with some alien species to distribute the prototype lifeforms around the universe, galaxy, "quadrant", or whatever. It's less unlikely than panspermia, after all.
[Cases 1 and 2.]
And case 3 : Assange is extradited to Sweden, and while undergoing investigation there, a pre-existing case emerges (perhaps from a previously sealed, notarised etc case file? Hmmm?) in US-controlled territory, with US-ian witnesses and probably US-managed forensic evidence. This case is so much more severe that the US authorities can "queue up" a formally correct extradition request in Sweden, which would get Assange into their hands legally. The Swedes then dismiss the standing (just) case against Assange, who is then free to leave ... straight into the hands of the Swedish Police who execute the completely-separate-and-utterly-unrelated-save-by-a-coincidence-of-timing warrent. His extradition procedes with reasonable haste (so as to not prolong his period of uncertainty in detention), and some hours later Assange finds himself on a CIA plane back to face his death sentence (in another sealed case file).
And case 3, described above, is well within the range of duplicitous activity to be expected from the governement that runs places like Guantanamo.
Errr, Murphy was a neutrino?
As well as an optimist.
An optimistic neutrino.
Was that the good Mr "Dalek", by any chance? Polish family, I forget his real name, which was unspellable and unpronouncable to a Briton. Hence "Dalek".
He theft-proofed his Mini by taking the steering wheel off when he parked up, but then lost the wheel when drunk one night. So he steered with a pair of mole grips attached to the steering column for a couple of months at least. Until next MOT time.
Hatter. Mad as. Rearrange.