Be careful: minimum cost per arrest isn't a good metric for the TSA. They could just start arresting people left and right to improve that score. I'd be happy if they only arrested 5 people per year - all of them actual terrorists - even if the average cost per arrest went up 10 times.
It's not just about your safety; it applies to the car's safety as well. As for your safety, there's a good safety reason why you don't want the car starting while you're changing oil or a tire: you don't want the car driving over you.:)
I do agree that the key provides a much simpler method to ensure things are off, and convenient safety has significant value.
On the other hand, working on interior electrical isn't really a big problem. 12v won't shock you. Most of what people do is: changing light bulbs (zero risk) and installing a new radio (which is just connecting a big connector; no exposed wires; it either plugs in or it doesn't), or changing other parts that have similar connectors. Even on more complex work (like if you insist on cutting the wiring harness to install a radio), if you short it out it just blows a fuse. I'd certainly prefer to be able to flip the system on and off conveniently, but it's not really a compelling case to have a key.
Also, the keyless cars don't let you START them from the remote. The remote unlocks it and enables everything (like turning a key from 0 to II), but actually starting the car requires pushing a button on the dashboard.
Flip it around: if you have a decent multitrack 24/192 ADC, why bother blowing money and effort on tape? The digital setup has dynamic range and response that the tape won't touch, and it's much more convenient to master.
Tube distortion isn't lost in a later A/D/A. The harmonics are quite well and alive. Bad A/D is its own problem, but studio quality A/D at high frequencies and bit depths will preserve it much better than tape will. Do you think that the Marshall sound suddenly reverts back to clean when people play it back from a CD?
The "feed it through a deck later" isn't about tube distortion. That's about the "tape compression" sound that drummers and some guitarists love. Why do you think you can't get it by feeding a good digital recording into a deck and then playing it back?
ANY kind of distortion can always be applied later if you have a clean recording, and 24/96 or 24/192 is a much cleaner recording than you'll ever get in the analog world.
There's a good reason why guitars need tube amps, but what's the point of staying analog after picking it up with the mic? If you need the tape compression sound you can always feed that track through a deck later.
"allowing the subjects to work the training machine at times of their own choosing, rather than on a schedule determined by the researchers, made all the difference."
This is directly applicable to humans as well, and probably deserves more research.
If they keep this shit up we can just re-root their entire namespace there and give the new root to some organization that's chartered with organizing things sensibly instead of maximizing profit.
I learned C by reading K&R... that method probably isn't for everyone.
I would suggest looking at languages outside of C. Rather than bogging him down with string indices and static arrays, point him toward something that gives maximum results with the least work - something very high level and interpreted instead of compiled. Ruby is my favorite, but Python is also excellent. Learning C is an important step for any programmer, but I wouldn't make it the first step if he's programming on a modern PC.
On the other hand, you could get him an Arduino. That means C, but the Arduino community has tons of good newbie-friendly snippets, tutorials, and documentation to get him started.
I suspect you didn't RTFA: "Introducing utility functions makes the problem more interesting because each participant has a different view of the value or "size" of the portions of cake. What matters in this problem is that all of the participants think that they have got at least their fair share, or more, of the cake as measured by their utility function."
Why roll your own firewalling script? fail2ban works great.
In my experience fail2ban alone gets the attack rate down so low that they'll never succeed. They can scale the attack with more IPs, but large botnets aren't free and the price is apparently high enough for them to never bother any of my exposed machines.
Monsanto just needs to adapt: instead of selling roundup, they can profit by suing farmers for bioengineering Roundup Ready weeds in violation of their patents.
#1: rsync -aihxv --inplace --delete root@some-host://backups/@some-host btrfs subvolume snapshot/backups/@some-host/backups/@some-host-`date %F--%T` btrfs subvolume delete/backups/@some-host-(date and time from some cycles ago)
no need to aim the thing-- easy to shoot from the hip
I've sent a lot of buckshot downrange and this just isn't true. It's not an all-obliterating wide-angle cone of death. At 15 feet - about what you'd expect for blasting badguys indoors - the spread is only about a 4 to 6 inch diameter circle, and you most certainly DO have to aim it.
That said it's much easier to aim a long arm (shotguns, rifles) than a handgun - a novice shooter with a compact rifle can easily outshoot almost anyone with a handgun. It comes at the disadvantage that they're more cumbersome indoors and it makes it much harder to carry a flashlight or otherwise use your other hand.
I agree with most of the rest of what you said, but I want to underline this: Unless you and your fiancee are going to put in the time at the shooting range to get good with it (about 500 rounds each), and the monthly practice necessary to keep your skill levels up, the gun only increases your risks without providing any particular benefit.
I'd like to also add: Take a handgun defense course. You need practice not just shooting straight, but doing so under time pressure where you're discriminating between good guys and bad guys, under poor lighting, and where you have to draw from a holster and flip off the safety first. (Yes, under pressure YOU WILL forget to flip off the safety if you haven't practiced doing it a few hundred times. Cops get killed because of this all the time.) These courses are probably the best thing you can do to take a gun from being a powerful but impartial tool to one that's more likely to work in your favor.
I don't think I'd bother with a monitored alarm system, though I'd certainly consider one that makes a lot of noise and flashes a lot of strobes. The fact that a system is monitored isn't what deters theft. It's the noise and attention that is drawn to the scene that chases them off.
It depends on your goals. If you want to prevent theft, use sirens and strobes. If you want to catch the guy, use a silent alarm that calls in the troops.
I do have the answer, and it's surprisingly simple:
Provide fiber to the home as a municipal service for just the physical layer (eg, you lease two strands from the city for $10/month); have the other end in a data center where you can be cross connected to your choice of data service providers. In other words, take the physical layer away from the telcos so they can't leverage that monopoly against you; then they have to actually compete.
Wherever this is done the diversity of services flourishes and the prices become very low.
Things are different in Aus. You don't have very good connectivity off the island so it's a big advantage for the ISP to encourage you to get files domestically.
In the US the weakest link is the last mile; transit between ISPs is dirt cheap. I think it's pretty clear that they're doing it as an abuse of their near-monopoly, and not as a result of their costs.
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In AU transit to everywhere is via some very overloaded underwater fiber; the last mile is dirt cheap.
In the US transit is dirt cheap, but the last mile infrastructure is terrible.
Thus AU ISPs try to cache everything locally, but in the US no one bothers.
Be careful: minimum cost per arrest isn't a good metric for the TSA. They could just start arresting people left and right to improve that score. I'd be happy if they only arrested 5 people per year - all of them actual terrorists - even if the average cost per arrest went up 10 times.
It's not just about your safety; it applies to the car's safety as well. As for your safety, there's a good safety reason why you don't want the car starting while you're changing oil or a tire: you don't want the car driving over you. :)
I do agree that the key provides a much simpler method to ensure things are off, and convenient safety has significant value.
On the other hand, working on interior electrical isn't really a big problem. 12v won't shock you. Most of what people do is: changing light bulbs (zero risk) and installing a new radio (which is just connecting a big connector; no exposed wires; it either plugs in or it doesn't), or changing other parts that have similar connectors. Even on more complex work (like if you insist on cutting the wiring harness to install a radio), if you short it out it just blows a fuse. I'd certainly prefer to be able to flip the system on and off conveniently, but it's not really a compelling case to have a key.
Also, the keyless cars don't let you START them from the remote. The remote unlocks it and enables everything (like turning a key from 0 to II), but actually starting the car requires pushing a button on the dashboard.
Flip it around: if you have a decent multitrack 24/192 ADC, why bother blowing money and effort on tape? The digital setup has dynamic range and response that the tape won't touch, and it's much more convenient to master.
I agree with everything except this:
what if someone is working on their car and wants to make it sure cannot be turned on while they're under the hood
The first step in any under-hood work is to disconnect the ground cable from the battery for exactly this reason.
attempt to claw back some of its credibility with a third nuclear test
Perhaps domestically, but internationally they can claw back some credibility by not having a third nuclear test.
The ball's in your court, Jong-un. Your father burned all his credibility, but you have an excellent opportunity. Don't waste it trying to show off.
Tube distortion isn't lost in a later A/D/A. The harmonics are quite well and alive. Bad A/D is its own problem, but studio quality A/D at high frequencies and bit depths will preserve it much better than tape will. Do you think that the Marshall sound suddenly reverts back to clean when people play it back from a CD?
The "feed it through a deck later" isn't about tube distortion. That's about the "tape compression" sound that drummers and some guitarists love. Why do you think you can't get it by feeding a good digital recording into a deck and then playing it back?
ANY kind of distortion can always be applied later if you have a clean recording, and 24/96 or 24/192 is a much cleaner recording than you'll ever get in the analog world.
There's a good reason why guitars need tube amps, but what's the point of staying analog after picking it up with the mic? If you need the tape compression sound you can always feed that track through a deck later.
"allowing the subjects to work the training machine at times of their own choosing, rather than on a schedule determined by the researchers, made all the difference."
This is directly applicable to humans as well, and probably deserves more research.
If they keep this shit up we can just re-root their entire namespace there and give the new root to some organization that's chartered with organizing things sensibly instead of maximizing profit.
I learned C by reading K&R... that method probably isn't for everyone.
I would suggest looking at languages outside of C. Rather than bogging him down with string indices and static arrays, point him toward something that gives maximum results with the least work - something very high level and interpreted instead of compiled. Ruby is my favorite, but Python is also excellent. Learning C is an important step for any programmer, but I wouldn't make it the first step if he's programming on a modern PC.
On the other hand, you could get him an Arduino. That means C, but the Arduino community has tons of good newbie-friendly snippets, tutorials, and documentation to get him started.
Ah, I see now. Yes, that's a good point.
I suspect you didn't RTFA: "Introducing utility functions makes the problem more interesting because each participant has a different view of the value or "size" of the portions of cake. What matters in this problem is that all of the participants think that they have got at least their fair share, or more, of the cake as measured by their utility function."
I said weeds, not seeds. :)
Why roll your own firewalling script? fail2ban works great.
In my experience fail2ban alone gets the attack rate down so low that they'll never succeed. They can scale the attack with more IPs, but large botnets aren't free and the price is apparently high enough for them to never bother any of my exposed machines.
Monsanto just needs to adapt: instead of selling roundup, they can profit by suing farmers for bioengineering Roundup Ready weeds in violation of their patents.
Do you mean Ioupe? :) (This iJoke not available in all fonts)
To ensure that a complex electromechanical device does not do something is nearly impossible.
WTF? It's very easy to certify that a TV doesn't have a camera and microphone installed to watch you.
It's also easy to certify that devices inherently capable of spying come with a real privacy policy instead of a "privacy policy".
#1: rsync -aihxv --inplace --delete root@some-host:/ /backups/@some-host /backups/@some-host /backups/@some-host-`date %F--%T` /backups/@some-host-(date and time from some cycles ago)
btrfs subvolume snapshot
btrfs subvolume delete
(repeat for all hosts)
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Very cool. If someone mashes it up with a topo map it'll be awesome.
no need to aim the thing-- easy to shoot from the hip
I've sent a lot of buckshot downrange and this just isn't true. It's not an all-obliterating wide-angle cone of death. At 15 feet - about what you'd expect for blasting badguys indoors - the spread is only about a 4 to 6 inch diameter circle, and you most certainly DO have to aim it.
That said it's much easier to aim a long arm (shotguns, rifles) than a handgun - a novice shooter with a compact rifle can easily outshoot almost anyone with a handgun. It comes at the disadvantage that they're more cumbersome indoors and it makes it much harder to carry a flashlight or otherwise use your other hand.
I agree with most of the rest of what you said, but I want to underline this: Unless you and your fiancee are going to put in the time at the shooting range to get good with it (about 500 rounds each), and the monthly practice necessary to keep your skill levels up, the gun only increases your risks without providing any particular benefit.
I'd like to also add: Take a handgun defense course. You need practice not just shooting straight, but doing so under time pressure where you're discriminating between good guys and bad guys, under poor lighting, and where you have to draw from a holster and flip off the safety first. (Yes, under pressure YOU WILL forget to flip off the safety if you haven't practiced doing it a few hundred times. Cops get killed because of this all the time.) These courses are probably the best thing you can do to take a gun from being a powerful but impartial tool to one that's more likely to work in your favor.
I don't think I'd bother with a monitored alarm system, though I'd certainly consider one that makes a lot of noise and flashes a lot of strobes. The fact that a system is monitored isn't what deters theft. It's the noise and attention that is drawn to the scene that chases them off.
It depends on your goals. If you want to prevent theft, use sirens and strobes. If you want to catch the guy, use a silent alarm that calls in the troops.
I do have the answer, and it's surprisingly simple:
Provide fiber to the home as a municipal service for just the physical layer (eg, you lease two strands from the city for $10/month); have the other end in a data center where you can be cross connected to your choice of data service providers. In other words, take the physical layer away from the telcos so they can't leverage that monopoly against you; then they have to actually compete.
Wherever this is done the diversity of services flourishes and the prices become very low.
Things are different in Aus. You don't have very good connectivity off the island so it's a big advantage for the ISP to encourage you to get files domestically.
In the US the weakest link is the last mile; transit between ISPs is dirt cheap. I think it's pretty clear that they're doing it as an abuse of their near-monopoly, and not as a result of their costs.
In politics, you usually want neither faction to win, since they're all rich, lying weasels.
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As long as they're fighting each other, nobody else gets hurt.
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