If we can be sued by the copyright holders for crap like this, I fail to see why it should be any different for the feds.
I guess I wasn't the only one who slept through elementary school civics classes, eh? Turns out you can't sue the government unless it decides to let you.
"The government is not liable to suit unless it consents thereto, and its liability in suit cannot be extended beyond the plain language of the statute authorizing it." --US Supreme Court, Price vs. United States, 1899
A woman cannot pee around a corner without using special equipment. Men for the win!
Look, I know it's not much, but we have to work with what God gave us, you know? Men, be proud of your uniquely male corner-around-peeing ability, and the ease with which you can write your name in the snow. To the drum circle, boys!
But we've got rats here in Chicago who can chew through a heavy-duty plastic municipal garbage bin.
All rodents can do that, including mice and voles. The thing that's different about Chicago is that the humans are so detached from nature that they don't know this.
Rodents cannot chew through glass, and it takes them a very long time to chew through metal or concrete. If you live near rodents, use a galvanized metal can; if you live near raccoons or possums use raccoon springs.
We actually wanted to build it without O-rings, we wanted to cast the propellant into a mold and wrap the slug afterwards with carbon fiber, which would have been a fraction of the weight and far stronger than the segmented steel casings NASA insisted on.
Not ice - the warning was that the O rings sealing the joints between sections of the solid rocket boosters would be too stiff in the cold to seal properly and hot combustion gases could leak. That's what happened.
Although you're basically right, I think the ability of the SRB's leak to penetrate the shuttle's external hydrogen tank was due to high pressure and the tank's weak skin - so it might be better to say "high pressure exhaust" or something like that instead of "hot combustion gases". Honestly shuttle SRBs don't burn incredibly hot by aerospace standards.
I dunno. I was at Morton-Thiokol when it happened, and I've read the Rogers report and Congressional hack job, and I'm pretty convinced that NASA told our upper management to overrule our engineers, and then when Boisjoly et al tried their damndest to contact NASA directly (bypassing Morton Thiokol's upper management entirely) NASA called us and said "shut down your loose cannons". So while I would not say Morton Thiokol's management was blameless, their actual fault was that they gave in to threats and let NASA Marshall bully them. And it's not entirely unlikely that the bullying ultimately came directly from the White House, where Reagan's handlers were anxious to have him give his launch speech, and were upset that the mass media was ridiculing repeated launch delays. Stuff rolls downhill, but not back up.
This is slightly at odds with the Wikipedia version of events, but that version has Reagan "quoting" High Flight instead of using the more accurate word "plagiarizing" so I tend to trust my memory more.
When then-popular news figurehead Dan Rather suddenly decided he was a forensic rocket scientist (after weeks of publicly ridiculing NASA for being afraid to launch in bad weather, and no doubt contributing to the pressure to launch) and told America live on-air that faulty SRBs were the cause of the disaster, our phones started ringing... and ringing... and never stopped, all the rest of that day. You wouldn't bother to put the phone down, just press the switch hook and take the next call before it rang. "No, mom, it wasn't our fault. As far as I know. I gotta go. <switchhook> No, Aunt Louise, it wasn't our fault, as far as I know. <switchhook> Hi honey, Yeah, I don't know yet, I'm sure I'll be working late, don't hold dinner, tell the kids I love them, bye" etc. etc. etc.
Uh, yes it is, if you're living on this planet. Your own math shows that! $125k annually is in the richest 0.07% of the world's population. It's more than 76 times the median income for Earth humans, according to Branko Milanovic.
Honestly, even in the USA, just 4 million in assets is rich. Affluenza rich. You'd pretty much have to be both insane and incompetent to fail to increase your wealth once you had 4 million in pocket. Hell, hire one honest accountant with an above average IQ and your 4 mil will easily keep both of you in cheesesteaks and hookers for your lifetime...
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the technology, I think.
The government can use MIB on the rooftops with parabolics, this phone doesn't and can't protect you from their minions.
"Evil people" avoid detection by using disposable phones and in-group jargon to avoid detection - they simply don't need or want this technology. They already buy cheaper, low profile generic phones with cash and just throw them away if they get known.
But this technology prevents the Sun from printing your conversation with the sexy nanny on page one. It prevents your neighbor from listening to your calls to your bookie on his scanner or baby monitor, too. Get it now? It's a big market segment... people who want a little privacy from nosy neighbors and service providers.
To be honest I stopped paying much attention to the details of ethernet about the same time I drilled my last 10b5 etherhose for a vampire tap. The earliest switches I remember were 10bT (with optional full duplex, assuming you hadn't cheaped out on the wires) and I believe they would fake a collision at the RJ45 port if you exceeded their (very limited) switching capacities. In those days most arguments were Ethernet II.vs. 802.3 and SNA.vs. DecNet... not really relevant any more in the world of jumbo frames and ubiquitous IP.
Thanks again for the info! Clearly I should shut up about ethernet tech unless I'm going to study up on it a lot.
Everyone of us is a freeloader. We use an alphabet we didn't invent, we use a language we didn't invent, we live in towns we didn't build, we live in states we didn't found, we are entitled rights we didn't fight for, we follow ethical principles we didn't think of ourselves etc.pp..
You sound like some kind of OBAMA BIN BIDEN supporter - or worse yet, a HILLARY supporter - with your "we built it together" and "people working together can enrich us all" and "it takes a village" socialist political agenda. Why do you hate America? I bet you're a terrorist. Only a terrorist would use facts like you do. Patriots have ideology and don't need your terrorist facts.
MAC addresses specify the backoff time for collisions on a LAN and aren't used at "worldwide" scales. They get stripped by the first router that sees them.
Only hardware vendors that need to provide unique collision avoidance characteristics on any customer's LAN need MAC address allocations.
The original source (ESR himself) never mentioned GitHub. Just git. Can people stop conflating the two please?
C'mon, man, get with the times. Having 'protocols' with 'definitions' that allow for 'multiple vendor-neutral implementations' is so totally outdated, man. Everybody knows that the future is snappily named proprietary services dependent on a single vendor with a nonsensical business model, ideally accessible only through an iPhone app!
Said snappily named services discovered through a multicast DNS portal into a Microsoft Active Directory, of course.
Why have a single single vendor dependency when you can stack 'em up like cordwood?
I have somehow ended up with F. Alton Wade's letters that he sent from Antarctica to his girlfriend back in the States. The snow cruiser is apparently an awesome base station, although completely useless as a vehicle.
...but USB (2) can only push 480mbit/s over a 5m cable (or 4gbit/s over the same length with USB 3)? Why the hell didn't the USB designers take a cue from the Ethernet cable designers?
Probably because USB is an evolution of serial communication between two endpoints (think RS232c and friends, or the ancient and beloved 20 mA loop) which isn't remotely the same paradigm as CSMACD networking.
These are the same tired and overwrought points y'all have been preaching since the 1970s. Americans don't want nukes, so just give it up. Move on!
Unless, or course, you are in favor of tyranny and ignoring the people's will. In that case, you've got a career in government waiting for you; you'll fit right in!
Do you even know what you're talking about? There are literally NO "sites" using BGP (except inasmuch as sites use routers to convey data back to users). BGP is used by ISPs and Telcos, on peering routers etc.
We use BGP internally here and we're connected to several other enterprises that have large BGP-routed internal networks. We're not a telco or an ISP.
The Nook Color I use in my car (with Torque app) stays connected to a regular USB cable in the dash that only supplies power when the ignition's on. It bluetooths to the ODBC. Running out of battery power doesn't seem to be a problem in a daily driver (which is good, because the car complains if the Nook boots, says the USB draw momentarily goes over spec and wants permission to shut down the USB port).
It used to charge reasonably quickly with the "official" cable and wall-wart ( which are actually very well designed (you can't hurt anything by using them incorrectly, because the cable head is longer so the extra pins don't touch anything if you plug it into a normal (not Nook) microUSB device)) but took forever without the special cable.
...printed guns can't make 10. They are not weapons, they are a political statement arguing that controlling the sale of guns is impossible because anybody can make one. It's not true, and the argument is literally blowing up in their face.
We certainly could control the sale of guns; the easiest and simplest way would be to kill every single human. A combination of engineered Ebola derivatives followed by mopping up with automated high-fallout nuclear weapons should do the trick, and you could probably set up for it in less than 50 years.
There are many other methods that would work too, but they would all be vastly more difficult, expensive and time consuming to implement. Universal human enslavement by near-omniscient robotic overlords, for example, would be very difficult to achieve. Forcible re-education of citizens and institutionalized culling of their children to eliminate all those intelligent enough to independently deduce the principles of firearms manufacture would take many generations.
So if you aren't merely posturing, and honestly do want total control of gun sales, maybe you should be campaigning for the extermination of mankind. It's clearly the most achievable real-world method of reaching your goal.
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I guess I wasn't the only one who slept through elementary school civics classes, eh? Turns out you can't sue the government unless it decides to let you.
"The government is not liable to suit unless it consents thereto, and its liability in suit cannot be extended beyond the plain language of the statute authorizing it." --US Supreme Court, Price vs. United States, 1899
I wish I could "like" your post, but on the other hand slashdot on its worst day is probably still better than Facebook.
WRONG.
A woman cannot pee around a corner without using special equipment. Men for the win!
Look, I know it's not much, but we have to work with what God gave us, you know? Men, be proud of your uniquely male corner-around-peeing ability, and the ease with which you can write your name in the snow. To the drum circle, boys!
All rodents can do that, including mice and voles. The thing that's different about Chicago is that the humans are so detached from nature that they don't know this.
Rodents cannot chew through glass, and it takes them a very long time to chew through metal or concrete. If you live near rodents, use a galvanized metal can; if you live near raccoons or possums use raccoon springs.
Because fish are just extremely fast moving vegetables? And commercially obtained calcium is never made from crushed bones?
A real vegan diet would kill a lot of people; some of us physically require animal-derived nutrition. Which is unsurprising, given our dental structure.
And the vegan ethical/moral argument appears to be bankrupt too. A mindful omnivore, who eats grass-fed beef, kills far fewer animals than a vegan who eats tofu.
Veganism aside, though, I have to agree with you that he's laying the pseudo-scientific health claims on with a trowel.
We actually wanted to build it without O-rings, we wanted to cast the propellant into a mold and wrap the slug afterwards with carbon fiber, which would have been a fraction of the weight and far stronger than the segmented steel casings NASA insisted on.
Although you're basically right, I think the ability of the SRB's leak to penetrate the shuttle's external hydrogen tank was due to high pressure and the tank's weak skin - so it might be better to say "high pressure exhaust" or something like that instead of "hot combustion gases". Honestly shuttle SRBs don't burn incredibly hot by aerospace standards.
I dunno. I was at Morton-Thiokol when it happened, and I've read the Rogers report and Congressional hack job, and I'm pretty convinced that NASA told our upper management to overrule our engineers, and then when Boisjoly et al tried their damndest to contact NASA directly (bypassing Morton Thiokol's upper management entirely) NASA called us and said "shut down your loose cannons". So while I would not say Morton Thiokol's management was blameless, their actual fault was that they gave in to threats and let NASA Marshall bully them. And it's not entirely unlikely that the bullying ultimately came directly from the White House, where Reagan's handlers were anxious to have him give his launch speech, and were upset that the mass media was ridiculing repeated launch delays. Stuff rolls downhill, but not back up.
This is slightly at odds with the Wikipedia version of events, but that version has Reagan "quoting" High Flight instead of using the more accurate word "plagiarizing" so I tend to trust my memory more.
When then-popular news figurehead Dan Rather suddenly decided he was a forensic rocket scientist (after weeks of publicly ridiculing NASA for being afraid to launch in bad weather, and no doubt contributing to the pressure to launch) and told America live on-air that faulty SRBs were the cause of the disaster, our phones started ringing... and ringing... and never stopped, all the rest of that day. You wouldn't bother to put the phone down, just press the switch hook and take the next call before it rang. "No, mom, it wasn't our fault. As far as I know. I gotta go. <switchhook> No, Aunt Louise, it wasn't our fault, as far as I know. <switchhook> Hi honey, Yeah, I don't know yet, I'm sure I'll be working late, don't hold dinner, tell the kids I love them, bye" etc. etc. etc.
Uh, yes it is, if you're living on this planet. Your own math shows that! $125k annually is in the richest 0.07% of the world's population. It's more than 76 times the median income for Earth humans, according to Branko Milanovic.
Honestly, even in the USA, just 4 million in assets is rich. Affluenza rich. You'd pretty much have to be both insane and incompetent to fail to increase your wealth once you had 4 million in pocket. Hell, hire one honest accountant with an above average IQ and your 4 mil will easily keep both of you in cheesesteaks and hookers for your lifetime...
Here, you might find this an interesting tool for evaluating what "rich" is.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the technology, I think.
The government can use MIB on the rooftops with parabolics, this phone doesn't and can't protect you from their minions.
"Evil people" avoid detection by using disposable phones and in-group jargon to avoid detection - they simply don't need or want this technology. They already buy cheaper, low profile generic phones with cash and just throw them away if they get known.
But this technology prevents the Sun from printing your conversation with the sexy nanny on page one. It prevents your neighbor from listening to your calls to your bookie on his scanner or baby monitor, too. Get it now? It's a big market segment... people who want a little privacy from nosy neighbors and service providers.
To be honest I stopped paying much attention to the details of ethernet about the same time I drilled my last 10b5 etherhose for a vampire tap. The earliest switches I remember were 10bT (with optional full duplex, assuming you hadn't cheaped out on the wires) and I believe they would fake a collision at the RJ45 port if you exceeded their (very limited) switching capacities. In those days most arguments were Ethernet II .vs. 802.3 and SNA .vs. DecNet... not really relevant any more in the world of jumbo frames and ubiquitous IP.
Thanks again for the info! Clearly I should shut up about ethernet tech unless I'm going to study up on it a lot.
You sound like some kind of OBAMA BIN BIDEN supporter - or worse yet, a HILLARY supporter - with your "we built it together" and "people working together can enrich us all" and "it takes a village" socialist political agenda. Why do you hate America? I bet you're a terrorist. Only a terrorist would use facts like you do. Patriots have ideology and don't need your terrorist facts .
Thank you for that. Very informative.
Do modern switches signal fake collisions to attached ethernet devices when their switch memory is exceeded?
MAC addresses specify the backoff time for collisions on a LAN and aren't used at "worldwide" scales. They get stripped by the first router that sees them.
Only hardware vendors that need to provide unique collision avoidance characteristics on any customer's LAN need MAC address allocations.
Oh, don't worry, there's no sanity involved!
Said snappily named services discovered through a multicast DNS portal into a Microsoft Active Directory, of course.
Why have a single single vendor dependency when you can stack 'em up like cordwood?
I have somehow ended up with F. Alton Wade's letters that he sent from Antarctica to his girlfriend back in the States. The snow cruiser is apparently an awesome base station, although completely useless as a vehicle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctic_snow_cruiser_cutaway.jpg
Precision wire twisting eliminates crosstalk and unequal induction.
Seriously. It's all in the twist.
Probably because USB is an evolution of serial communication between two endpoints (think RS232c and friends, or the ancient and beloved 20 mA loop) which isn't remotely the same paradigm as CSMACD networking.
These are the same tired and overwrought points y'all have been preaching since the 1970s. Americans don't want nukes, so just give it up. Move on!
Unless, or course, you are in favor of tyranny and ignoring the people's will. In that case, you've got a career in government waiting for you; you'll fit right in!
We use BGP internally here and we're connected to several other enterprises that have large BGP-routed internal networks. We're not a telco or an ISP.
The Nook Color I use in my car (with Torque app) stays connected to a regular USB cable in the dash that only supplies power when the ignition's on. It bluetooths to the ODBC. Running out of battery power doesn't seem to be a problem in a daily driver (which is good, because the car complains if the Nook boots, says the USB draw momentarily goes over spec and wants permission to shut down the USB port).
It used to charge reasonably quickly with the "official" cable and wall-wart ( which are actually very well designed (you can't hurt anything by using them incorrectly, because the cable head is longer so the extra pins don't touch anything if you plug it into a normal (not Nook) microUSB device)) but took forever without the special cable.
Dammit, I think that's my only slashdot first post ever, and it has a grocer's apostrophe in it.
One reason for it's awesomeness.
We certainly could control the sale of guns; the easiest and simplest way would be to kill every single human. A combination of engineered Ebola derivatives followed by mopping up with automated high-fallout nuclear weapons should do the trick, and you could probably set up for it in less than 50 years.
There are many other methods that would work too, but they would all be vastly more difficult, expensive and time consuming to implement. Universal human enslavement by near-omniscient robotic overlords, for example, would be very difficult to achieve. Forcible re-education of citizens and institutionalized culling of their children to eliminate all those intelligent enough to independently deduce the principles of firearms manufacture would take many generations.
So if you aren't merely posturing, and honestly do want total control of gun sales, maybe you should be campaigning for the extermination of mankind. It's clearly the most achievable real-world method of reaching your goal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and testing against zero is usually computationally cheaper in hardware. You're right, but you're wrecking an ancient jest.
Female programmers can only count to nine without taking their shoes off, but male programmers can count to ten by just unzipping.
That chestnut's as traditional as "why do programmers always get Hallowe'en and Christmas mixed up", you know? Have some respect for the history!