Honda and Accura nav systems are also apparently hooking into the OBD port. They report codes on the nav screen, can't (or won't) clear them.
But are they hooked up to the cell network? I can get a similar device for the navigation system on my Subaru that will also let me clear faults, adjust turbo boost settings, etc.
I mean, I know that they traditionally used audio levels to detect when the commercial breaks start and end, but now there are quite a few networks which do not practice this (which is nice for people that don't want to have to manually turn down the tv volume whenever commercials start when they are watching live programming and turn the volume back up when the show starts again).
Via analytics. I used to have an OTA tuner hooked up to my computer. It would record TV as it came in and after a show was over, it would run a python script that would check the video against known commercials. Within 2 minutes of a show being over, I could watch the entire episode almost completely commercial free. Sometimes it would miss a commercial, or would cut a couple of seconds from the show. The nice thing about that set up was that it didn't actually truncate the video, but mark it. I could then go in there and adjust the commercials myself if I so chose. I stopped bothering with it because its easier to just download someone else's rip than to make sure that the TV schedule didn't change, etc etc.
Several stationary mirrors-walls with different angles, using pieces of broken mirrors placed into the cement. Sort of mirror mosaic.
This may not work though, depending on how much snowfall they get. Mirrors that track the sun could be designed to dump snow, and since they track the sun are more likely to have any snow covering the mirrors melt. I haven't looked at the weather specifics of this town, but there are advantages to moving mirrors. Now if snow were to build up under the mirrors, they would not be able to move anyway, so there are plenty of issues to worry about.
As someone who spent the first 20 years of his life in an area without significant seasonal changes and the next 20 years in areas with major seasonal changes I can definitely say that seasons are vastly overrated.
Having near perfect weather every day is about the least horrible curse I can think of.
Except that being next to equator does not guarantee "near perfect weather". Plenty of friends from places close to equator just say "back home we carried an umbrella every day even if it only rained once a week, because when it did it was pouring really hard.
Huh. I didn't know people in tropical areas bothered with umbrellas. I lived about 10 degrees north of the equator for a year. Yeah it rained like hell, and an umbrella was useless. Either the rain would come in sideways, or come in so hard and so fast you had to worry more about the water coming up than the water going down. I've seen rocks about half the size of a bowling ball being carried down the gutters along with lawn chairs and everything else you can imagine during an especially strong rain. But contrary to popular belief, most tropical areas do have two seasons: the wet season and the dry season. Where I lived, it rained almost every day for hours on end during the wet season. During the dry season, it may rain for 10 minutes each day, or may not rain for several days.
Huh. I thought that meant the exact opposite: that the speed limits provide the exception to the requirement to keep up with the flow of traffic, not that the requirement to keep up is the exception to the speed limit.
I read that as "Not withstanding whatever the speed limit may be, you must move out of the way for faster traffic." This is important because California has some funky rules with regard to speed limits. California has the basic speed law, which says that you must not travel faster than what is safe, or 55MPH. For any road with a speed limit higher than 55, you cannot exceed the posted limit. If you're going 55MPH in a 35MPH zone, you can actually get out of the ticket by proving that the speed you were going was not unsafe. You can prove this, for instance, by looking at the traffic engineer report and prove that the report was done incorrectly, or any myriad of reasons you might be able to use to indicate the speed you were traveling was safe for the road conditions.
You do realize that YOU are breaking the law by not moving over when you are driving in the left lane? Yes, even if you are speeding. YOU should learn to read the damn traffic laws, forfeit your license, or both.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that only apply in two situations:
1) You are travelling less than the speed limit AND slower than the flow of traffic. (Vehicle Code Section 21654.)
2) You are on a two-lane road, and there are more than five vehicles lined up behind you. (Vehicle Code Section 21656.)
You may consider yourself corrected (emphasis mine):
21654. (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
The real question is who is behind this? The CIA or the NSA? And why did they post signs? were they hoping to distract us from the other domestic spying?
I try to avoid salt when possible because so much food is overloaded with it, so I'm a little over the daily recommended value instead of double of it.
Salt isn't just a preservative but a way to make lesser-quality food taste better, so the market gives a financial incentive to salt up everything.
I avoid salt because my taste buds are extremely sensitive to it. A salting that tastes good to most people can often result in my tongue feeling like its burning. If I can taste the salt, I don't like it.
Not their fault? BS. They didn't make the mud, but they sure as hell made the tube it used to get above-ground.
To be clear, the mud did not spew out of the bore hole from the drilling. So whether or not the drilling caused the mud to be created, or whether it in any way contributed to the problem, the drilling itself did not create the hole used by the mud to escape. While you might argue that the drilling caused the event that created the escape path, it was a secondary event to the drilling itself.
So if I set up a print shop that prints and sells copies of recent bestsellers and sells them dirt cheap to bookstores that sell them at deep discounts to consumer's that's a misdemeanor? How about if I download copies of the latest movie releases, burn them to DVDs and ship them all over Europe?
Then you would no longer be a private citizen but would be engaging in business. I think that almost everyone agrees that anyone who does that for commercial gain should have the book thrown at them.
I've had eight dogs over 35+ years, and tried to use a radio collar only once, and only for a brief time. There were RC hobbyists and ham radio nuts in the neighborhood and someone's equipment was causing false signals to the collar. Perhaps the new ones have better protection from that now.
Every dog I've owned has been trained with a silent whistle in "Come", "Drop", and "Stay" commands. I carried the whistle on my key chain. Its effective range was over a quarter mile on open fields, far beyond my yelling distance, and comparable to the range of a radio collar. Advantages over the radio collar is that the whistle was always with me, there were no batteries to bother with, it was unaffected by water, it was not a potential noose (collars can get hung up on wire fences, etc), and the big one: with distinctive patterns of long and short blasts, it can deliver more than one command. Such as "Drop, Stay" when the dog had gotten on the other side of a busy road.
High tech is kewl. Appropriate tech is better.
So there are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies. We go to the dog park on a regular basis and there are often 8 or more dogs there. With the collar, I can get her attention only, and not bother the other dogs at the park. It is also waterproof (a must because my beast loves the water). It also has different channels, with support for up to 4 collars at a 300 yard range. I thought about the whistle, but it just wasn't ideal for the dog park. I've left the collar turned on for about 4 days before the battery died. It has pretty good longevity. Of course, mine is a hunting collar and they expect you to use it for days at a time in the sticks. But you are right, there is not much I can do about the collar being a choking hazard. That's why we only use it when I plan to let her off the leash.
E-collar? Put that on your kid and see how they react (or Children's aid). The latter two suggestions are the right answer. If you have to resort to shocking your dog then you are doing something wrong.
Your second paragraph is very true, we are becoming more and more aware that animals are not purely instinct driven. Well they are but so are we, we just don't realize our needs and wants are just that.
Hey buddy. I use a shock collar on my dog and I don't shock her at all. So you ask, why do I have it? Because she's a hound, and I like to let her roam freely whenever safety allows. The problem? She's a hound. She gets onto a scent and does not want to get off of it. She completely stops hearing my voice. Here is where the shock collar comes in handy. See it does more than just shock. I can also make it beep. And that beep snaps her out of her sniffing spree. It also works great when she's too far away to hear me well (I don't have a very good yelling voice). I beep the thing and she has been trained to come to me immediately.
" potentially save the DMV some of the $20 million spent each year in postage for renewals."
Why would it safe the DMV money. Isn't that paid for when you pay for the registration anyways as part of the fee/tax?
I have no issue with it, but the savings should be passed to those paying the bills, not for the govt to keep. But they love taking and keeping our money.
My assumption is they still want to charge you postage/labor for mailing out the registration sticker, but not actually mail anything. So they don't intend to pass the cost savings (if there really are any) to the customer, but instead make more money in taxes.
It all derailed when it started referring to "verbal threats" and "verbal abuse" as "violence".
I agree, she is just completely blowing this out of proportion at this point, but he is pretty verbally abusive at times.
Telling me "you made a stupid fucking mistake" isn't any worse than "Please don't take this too harshly and please don't think I am picking on you. I like you and you are a swell fellow and all. However, I feel it is necessary that I impress upon you that this isn't really a bug and having this trivial and non-broken thing filed as a bug has consumed a little bit of our time that we would rather not be wasting on things like this. Also, here is a pat on the back and an atta-boy so you don't feel I am being mean to you, okay?".
An effective communicator does not need to say "You made a fucking mistake" or go into a "let's hug it out" rambling dialog about the mistake. You can just say "This looks wrong to me" or "This is incorrect, can you please address this for me" or something else. You could use the exact same dialog minus the gratuitous use of profanity to make the same statement. I don't care if people swear around me, but I do not think it sounds professional at all. And I can tell you right now that when I go into a business development meeting versus an engineering meeting, the people in the business meeting are often not only better communicators, but also less likely to sound like they are having an argument on the playground. Not that those business dev people can't be profane people, but they are often better at recognizing that there is a time and a place for everything.
Of course, Linus could be less of an asshole (even when his points are very fair). But I don't see why he should feel he *has* to be less of one. *shrug*. I also think it's a little different than if he was someone's direct boss in a workplace and he was walking outside of his office to constantly berate, ride, ridicule, and harass his employees for being totally incompetent.
Some of these people (this lady may be included) are required to work with the Linux community professionally. For all you know, Intel is paying her to contribute to Linux. So its possible that she is being berated, ridiculed, or harassed at work because of this. Linux would not be where it is today without the corporate sponsorship that has happened inside of the community. If people start suing their employers for a hostile work environment because of the way that the Linux group is run, you'll see companies pull their support right away.
In the long term maybe not. In the short term it is certainly worse, though, and everybody only thinks about the next Quarter these days...
Well Apple could very well go out of business if it has no products to sell while they spend 8-10 years opening up their own fab facility. Unless they want to fab in some country where permits are easier to get. Then it might be half that time where they have no processors to put in their products. Of course, I am sure they could find other vendors, but how many independent fabs are out there that can handle that kind of volume reliably?
Did you hear of Bill Clinton before the Democratic Convention back in the 90's?
Did you hear of Jimmy Carter before the Democratic Convention back in the 70's?
Clinton - yes. Carter - no. I was not even born when Carter was elected president. And Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, which is pretty damned far from where I grew up.
To be fair, a good majority of presidential candidates go unknown by the general public until they run for that office. Of course there are exceptions, such as Hilary Clinton, because she was the First Lady (she is a lady, right?) or they're involved in some major news headlines. But seriously, how many of our current 535 Congressman (assuming all the posts are currently filled, I haven't checked) or 50 state governors can you name? Especially ones that don't represent you? And those are just the two major pools presidential candidates come from, but they could come from many other places. So it should be no surprise that you've never heard of someone if they haven't given you a reason to.
I had heard of most of the people in both the democratic and republican primaries for 2008. Obama I had never heard of. Also, he was on what, his second term as a senator? He has been in the business for a very short time. I'm not saying that he sold his soul to the devil or anything like that. He is obviously quite good at speaking, especially when reading from a prepared speech. I'm just saying that I don't think you can become a US president (or probably even be elected at the state level) without having some rich overlords to fund your campaign.
I fear Snowden will be a martyr. Plentiful people in power don't like it when their secretive ops and motives are exposed for the world to see. The sausage of politics is ugly enough. Snowden is a modern-day Sinclair Lewis in that regard.
Obama's premature prize baffles me, save that in his own country, there are plentiful people in power that didn't want an individual outside of their control to take power. Given Obama's unfulfilled promises, they needn't have bothered in their worry.
I"m surprised to see that you think that Obama was ever out of someones control. His meteoric rise to political power was so fast that I find it hard to believe he doesn't have some very rich and powerful people calling most of his shots. Did anyone really know his name prior to the 2004 Democratic Convention? I certainly had not really heard his name until the 2008 Democratic Primary began.
In any event, I don't see how anyone can become a politician at that level in this country without being corrupt. Which is why we need to fix the system.
Exactly. As an bachelors with honours engineering graduate I find it almost impossible to get work. Companies are not willing to train people in-house. I'd like to know how many engineering graduates have passed through university and are now doing a job they are qualified to do, looking at 15, 10, 5 years and present day.
I can't get a job because I haven't got the experience. I can't get the experience because I can't get a job. Catch 22.
My experience from going around recruiting college graduate engineers, and interviewing tons of people, is that most places do not want to actually mentor them and help them get their PE's. I worked with a ton of EEs once (where ton ~= 30) and half of them did not have their PE (the younger half) and they were not being mentored such that they could get it.
I don't understand that comic, is the funny part where the salaried employees (dumb slaves) realize that the money is in consulting?
No the funny part is that the boss doesn't realize that he's just written the software developers a blank check that they can write any amount they want in.
The whole point is that it's designed to report whatever people feel like reporting. It's mean as a tool of intimidation, just like the interactive who-owns-guns maps designed to make legal owners feel increasingly threatened by theft, etc.
I understand the point of the app. Which is why I originally started this by saying I should make an app that allows you to intimidate university lecturers.
This whole string of responses relates to ADs. Not public "brandishing." Stick with one topic, or make it clear you're having more than one conversation.
Guppy06 said that the point of the app was to allow you to report when someone is publicly mishandling a gun. This way you knew to avoid areas with jackasses that are likely to have an AD. He then went on to claim that you could not call the police on someone who is mishandling a gun. My contention is that if you are in public then your weapon is properly stored in a holster, case, or something else, or you are brandishing it. If it is properly stored, there is no way for it to AD. If you have it in your hand in public, then you are either defending yourself or breaking the law. And that is true in the most conservative of jurisdictions. It is silly to include ADs that may happen in the privacy of ones home or business because there is no way for the app user to report those cases unless they are looking through your windows. So yes, brandishing does apply to this conversation because the police will respond to someone brandishing a firearm. In most places that is a felony which will result in the person losing their right to own a firearm if they are convicted.
While we are on the topic of drone pilots versus actual fighter pilots, in a skirmish, how difficult would it be for the other side to completely jam all frequencies that are used to carry control information from the drone pilots in home base to the drone itself? Is jamming such a huge frequency range unmanageable? If so, is there a way to "fast detect" active frequency ranges and jam those specific ranges? Do the drones "rotate" their frequencies (much like star trek shield harmonics) to make it difficult to jam? And if so, can the jamming be effectively adoptable?
Pretty much all their comm systems these days do use a HOPset that determines what frequencies the radio uses as it communicates. They do not transmit on a specific frequency for more than a fraction of a second, and the HOPset can be changed in the air, or on the ground. They also can use satellite communications that only beam the radio signal up to the satellite, which would make it much more difficult to detect what frequency they are transmitting on.
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Honda and Accura nav systems are also apparently hooking into the OBD port. They report codes on the nav screen, can't (or won't) clear them.
But are they hooked up to the cell network? I can get a similar device for the navigation system on my Subaru that will also let me clear faults, adjust turbo boost settings, etc.
I mean, I know that they traditionally used audio levels to detect when the commercial breaks start and end, but now there are quite a few networks which do not practice this (which is nice for people that don't want to have to manually turn down the tv volume whenever commercials start when they are watching live programming and turn the volume back up when the show starts again).
Via analytics. I used to have an OTA tuner hooked up to my computer. It would record TV as it came in and after a show was over, it would run a python script that would check the video against known commercials. Within 2 minutes of a show being over, I could watch the entire episode almost completely commercial free. Sometimes it would miss a commercial, or would cut a couple of seconds from the show. The nice thing about that set up was that it didn't actually truncate the video, but mark it. I could then go in there and adjust the commercials myself if I so chose. I stopped bothering with it because its easier to just download someone else's rip than to make sure that the TV schedule didn't change, etc etc.
Several stationary mirrors-walls with different angles, using pieces of broken mirrors placed into the cement. Sort of mirror mosaic.
This may not work though, depending on how much snowfall they get. Mirrors that track the sun could be designed to dump snow, and since they track the sun are more likely to have any snow covering the mirrors melt. I haven't looked at the weather specifics of this town, but there are advantages to moving mirrors. Now if snow were to build up under the mirrors, they would not be able to move anyway, so there are plenty of issues to worry about.
As someone who spent the first 20 years of his life in an area without significant seasonal changes and the next 20 years in areas with major seasonal changes I can definitely say that seasons are vastly overrated.
Having near perfect weather every day is about the least horrible curse I can think of.
Except that being next to equator does not guarantee "near perfect weather". Plenty of friends from places close to equator just say "back home we carried an umbrella every day even if it only rained once a week, because when it did it was pouring really hard.
Huh. I didn't know people in tropical areas bothered with umbrellas. I lived about 10 degrees north of the equator for a year. Yeah it rained like hell, and an umbrella was useless. Either the rain would come in sideways, or come in so hard and so fast you had to worry more about the water coming up than the water going down. I've seen rocks about half the size of a bowling ball being carried down the gutters along with lawn chairs and everything else you can imagine during an especially strong rain. But contrary to popular belief, most tropical areas do have two seasons: the wet season and the dry season. Where I lived, it rained almost every day for hours on end during the wet season. During the dry season, it may rain for 10 minutes each day, or may not rain for several days.
Huh. I thought that meant the exact opposite: that the speed limits provide the exception to the requirement to keep up with the flow of traffic, not that the requirement to keep up is the exception to the speed limit.
I read that as "Not withstanding whatever the speed limit may be, you must move out of the way for faster traffic." This is important because California has some funky rules with regard to speed limits. California has the basic speed law, which says that you must not travel faster than what is safe, or 55MPH. For any road with a speed limit higher than 55, you cannot exceed the posted limit. If you're going 55MPH in a 35MPH zone, you can actually get out of the ticket by proving that the speed you were going was not unsafe. You can prove this, for instance, by looking at the traffic engineer report and prove that the report was done incorrectly, or any myriad of reasons you might be able to use to indicate the speed you were traveling was safe for the road conditions.
You do realize that YOU are breaking the law by not moving over when you are driving in the left lane? Yes, even if you are speeding. YOU should learn to read the damn traffic laws, forfeit your license, or both.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that only apply in two situations:
1) You are travelling less than the speed limit AND slower than the flow of traffic. (Vehicle Code Section 21654.) 2) You are on a two-lane road, and there are more than five vehicles lined up behind you. (Vehicle Code Section 21656.)
You may consider yourself corrected (emphasis mine):
21654. (a) Notwithstanding the prima facie speed limits, any vehicle proceeding upon a highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time shall be driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, except when overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction or when preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
uh huh....fake...
That's what they WANT you to think.
The real question is who is behind this? The CIA or the NSA? And why did they post signs? were they hoping to distract us from the other domestic spying?
Eh I just never bothered to create an account until I read a comment that bothered me so much I just had to reply...
I try to avoid salt when possible because so much food is overloaded with it, so I'm a little over the daily recommended value instead of double of it.
Salt isn't just a preservative but a way to make lesser-quality food taste better, so the market gives a financial incentive to salt up everything.
I avoid salt because my taste buds are extremely sensitive to it. A salting that tastes good to most people can often result in my tongue feeling like its burning. If I can taste the salt, I don't like it.
Hey man my UID might not indicate it, but I've been on Slashdot since 1999!
Not their fault? BS. They didn't make the mud, but they sure as hell made the tube it used to get above-ground.
To be clear, the mud did not spew out of the bore hole from the drilling. So whether or not the drilling caused the mud to be created, or whether it in any way contributed to the problem, the drilling itself did not create the hole used by the mud to escape. While you might argue that the drilling caused the event that created the escape path, it was a secondary event to the drilling itself.
Invest in infrared lighting and infrared goggles.
As an added bonus, your burgers will stay warm on the plate while you BBQ!
So if I set up a print shop that prints and sells copies of recent bestsellers and sells them dirt cheap to bookstores that sell them at deep discounts to consumer's that's a misdemeanor? How about if I download copies of the latest movie releases, burn them to DVDs and ship them all over Europe?
Then you would no longer be a private citizen but would be engaging in business. I think that almost everyone agrees that anyone who does that for commercial gain should have the book thrown at them.
Beep collar. Okay, that can work.
I've had eight dogs over 35+ years, and tried to use a radio collar only once, and only for a brief time. There were RC hobbyists and ham radio nuts in the neighborhood and someone's equipment was causing false signals to the collar. Perhaps the new ones have better protection from that now.
Every dog I've owned has been trained with a silent whistle in "Come", "Drop", and "Stay" commands. I carried the whistle on my key chain. Its effective range was over a quarter mile on open fields, far beyond my yelling distance, and comparable to the range of a radio collar. Advantages over the radio collar is that the whistle was always with me, there were no batteries to bother with, it was unaffected by water, it was not a potential noose (collars can get hung up on wire fences, etc), and the big one: with distinctive patterns of long and short blasts, it can deliver more than one command. Such as "Drop, Stay" when the dog had gotten on the other side of a busy road.
High tech is kewl. Appropriate tech is better.
So there are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies. We go to the dog park on a regular basis and there are often 8 or more dogs there. With the collar, I can get her attention only, and not bother the other dogs at the park. It is also waterproof (a must because my beast loves the water). It also has different channels, with support for up to 4 collars at a 300 yard range. I thought about the whistle, but it just wasn't ideal for the dog park. I've left the collar turned on for about 4 days before the battery died. It has pretty good longevity. Of course, mine is a hunting collar and they expect you to use it for days at a time in the sticks. But you are right, there is not much I can do about the collar being a choking hazard. That's why we only use it when I plan to let her off the leash.
E-collar? Put that on your kid and see how they react (or Children's aid). The latter two suggestions are the right answer. If you have to resort to shocking your dog then you are doing something wrong. Your second paragraph is very true, we are becoming more and more aware that animals are not purely instinct driven. Well they are but so are we, we just don't realize our needs and wants are just that.
Hey buddy. I use a shock collar on my dog and I don't shock her at all. So you ask, why do I have it? Because she's a hound, and I like to let her roam freely whenever safety allows. The problem? She's a hound. She gets onto a scent and does not want to get off of it. She completely stops hearing my voice. Here is where the shock collar comes in handy. See it does more than just shock. I can also make it beep. And that beep snaps her out of her sniffing spree. It also works great when she's too far away to hear me well (I don't have a very good yelling voice). I beep the thing and she has been trained to come to me immediately.
" potentially save the DMV some of the $20 million spent each year in postage for renewals."
Why would it safe the DMV money. Isn't that paid for when you pay for the registration anyways as part of the fee/tax? I have no issue with it, but the savings should be passed to those paying the bills, not for the govt to keep. But they love taking and keeping our money.
My assumption is they still want to charge you postage/labor for mailing out the registration sticker, but not actually mail anything. So they don't intend to pass the cost savings (if there really are any) to the customer, but instead make more money in taxes.
It all derailed when it started referring to "verbal threats" and "verbal abuse" as "violence".
I agree, she is just completely blowing this out of proportion at this point, but he is pretty verbally abusive at times.
Telling me "you made a stupid fucking mistake" isn't any worse than "Please don't take this too harshly and please don't think I am picking on you. I like you and you are a swell fellow and all. However, I feel it is necessary that I impress upon you that this isn't really a bug and having this trivial and non-broken thing filed as a bug has consumed a little bit of our time that we would rather not be wasting on things like this. Also, here is a pat on the back and an atta-boy so you don't feel I am being mean to you, okay?".
An effective communicator does not need to say "You made a fucking mistake" or go into a "let's hug it out" rambling dialog about the mistake. You can just say "This looks wrong to me" or "This is incorrect, can you please address this for me" or something else. You could use the exact same dialog minus the gratuitous use of profanity to make the same statement. I don't care if people swear around me, but I do not think it sounds professional at all. And I can tell you right now that when I go into a business development meeting versus an engineering meeting, the people in the business meeting are often not only better communicators, but also less likely to sound like they are having an argument on the playground. Not that those business dev people can't be profane people, but they are often better at recognizing that there is a time and a place for everything.
Of course, Linus could be less of an asshole (even when his points are very fair). But I don't see why he should feel he *has* to be less of one. *shrug*. I also think it's a little different than if he was someone's direct boss in a workplace and he was walking outside of his office to constantly berate, ride, ridicule, and harass his employees for being totally incompetent.
Some of these people (this lady may be included) are required to work with the Linux community professionally. For all you know, Intel is paying her to contribute to Linux. So its possible that she is being berated, ridiculed, or harassed at work because of this. Linux would not be where it is today without the corporate sponsorship that has happened inside of the community. If people start suing their employers for a hostile work environment because of the way that the Linux group is run, you'll see companies pull their support right away.
In the long term maybe not. In the short term it is certainly worse, though, and everybody only thinks about the next Quarter these days...
Well Apple could very well go out of business if it has no products to sell while they spend 8-10 years opening up their own fab facility. Unless they want to fab in some country where permits are easier to get. Then it might be half that time where they have no processors to put in their products. Of course, I am sure they could find other vendors, but how many independent fabs are out there that can handle that kind of volume reliably?
Did you hear of Bill Clinton before the Democratic Convention back in the 90's? Did you hear of Jimmy Carter before the Democratic Convention back in the 70's?
Clinton - yes. Carter - no. I was not even born when Carter was elected president. And Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, which is pretty damned far from where I grew up.
To be fair, a good majority of presidential candidates go unknown by the general public until they run for that office. Of course there are exceptions, such as Hilary Clinton, because she was the First Lady (she is a lady, right?) or they're involved in some major news headlines. But seriously, how many of our current 535 Congressman (assuming all the posts are currently filled, I haven't checked) or 50 state governors can you name? Especially ones that don't represent you? And those are just the two major pools presidential candidates come from, but they could come from many other places. So it should be no surprise that you've never heard of someone if they haven't given you a reason to.
I had heard of most of the people in both the democratic and republican primaries for 2008. Obama I had never heard of. Also, he was on what, his second term as a senator? He has been in the business for a very short time. I'm not saying that he sold his soul to the devil or anything like that. He is obviously quite good at speaking, especially when reading from a prepared speech. I'm just saying that I don't think you can become a US president (or probably even be elected at the state level) without having some rich overlords to fund your campaign.
I fear Snowden will be a martyr. Plentiful people in power don't like it when their secretive ops and motives are exposed for the world to see. The sausage of politics is ugly enough. Snowden is a modern-day Sinclair Lewis in that regard.
Obama's premature prize baffles me, save that in his own country, there are plentiful people in power that didn't want an individual outside of their control to take power. Given Obama's unfulfilled promises, they needn't have bothered in their worry.
I"m surprised to see that you think that Obama was ever out of someones control. His meteoric rise to political power was so fast that I find it hard to believe he doesn't have some very rich and powerful people calling most of his shots. Did anyone really know his name prior to the 2004 Democratic Convention? I certainly had not really heard his name until the 2008 Democratic Primary began.
In any event, I don't see how anyone can become a politician at that level in this country without being corrupt. Which is why we need to fix the system.
Exactly. As an bachelors with honours engineering graduate I find it almost impossible to get work. Companies are not willing to train people in-house. I'd like to know how many engineering graduates have passed through university and are now doing a job they are qualified to do, looking at 15, 10, 5 years and present day.
I can't get a job because I haven't got the experience. I can't get the experience because I can't get a job. Catch 22.
My experience from going around recruiting college graduate engineers, and interviewing tons of people, is that most places do not want to actually mentor them and help them get their PE's. I worked with a ton of EEs once (where ton ~= 30) and half of them did not have their PE (the younger half) and they were not being mentored such that they could get it.
I don't understand that comic, is the funny part where the salaried employees (dumb slaves) realize that the money is in consulting?
No the funny part is that the boss doesn't realize that he's just written the software developers a blank check that they can write any amount they want in.
The whole point is that it's designed to report whatever people feel like reporting. It's mean as a tool of intimidation, just like the interactive who-owns-guns maps designed to make legal owners feel increasingly threatened by theft, etc.
I understand the point of the app. Which is why I originally started this by saying I should make an app that allows you to intimidate university lecturers.
This whole string of responses relates to ADs. Not public "brandishing." Stick with one topic, or make it clear you're having more than one conversation.
Guppy06 said that the point of the app was to allow you to report when someone is publicly mishandling a gun. This way you knew to avoid areas with jackasses that are likely to have an AD. He then went on to claim that you could not call the police on someone who is mishandling a gun. My contention is that if you are in public then your weapon is properly stored in a holster, case, or something else, or you are brandishing it. If it is properly stored, there is no way for it to AD. If you have it in your hand in public, then you are either defending yourself or breaking the law. And that is true in the most conservative of jurisdictions. It is silly to include ADs that may happen in the privacy of ones home or business because there is no way for the app user to report those cases unless they are looking through your windows. So yes, brandishing does apply to this conversation because the police will respond to someone brandishing a firearm. In most places that is a felony which will result in the person losing their right to own a firearm if they are convicted.
While we are on the topic of drone pilots versus actual fighter pilots, in a skirmish, how difficult would it be for the other side to completely jam all frequencies that are used to carry control information from the drone pilots in home base to the drone itself? Is jamming such a huge frequency range unmanageable? If so, is there a way to "fast detect" active frequency ranges and jam those specific ranges? Do the drones "rotate" their frequencies (much like star trek shield harmonics) to make it difficult to jam? And if so, can the jamming be effectively adoptable?
Pretty much all their comm systems these days do use a HOPset that determines what frequencies the radio uses as it communicates. They do not transmit on a specific frequency for more than a fraction of a second, and the HOPset can be changed in the air, or on the ground. They also can use satellite communications that only beam the radio signal up to the satellite, which would make it much more difficult to detect what frequency they are transmitting on.