I had a friend who was under an (unknown) restraining order extension. (they were now about 750 miles apart) But my friend was still pissed and sent her nasty emails from a hotmail account.
She printed off these emails on her home printer and brought them to court.
The judge didn't want top hear about how easy it would be to mock-up printed emails. It was (aparently) just to back up her testimony.
Granted, the same would not hold true for my printed emails from BG promising me $1 royality for every MS product sold.
btw - my friend can be quite pig-headed, and when he was incarcerated for the weekend, I though "good" and let him stay, even though I told him I was trying to bail him out...
"As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."
Sounds like lots of things...
the ECU for my car
my home AC thermostat
my digital indoor / outdoor thermometer
I am working on an article detailing the results of having a "a diverse panel of horny Slashdoters" compare real live Porn to various other Porn. The punchline: "...felt Playboy was the least realistic, with Penthouse being a bit better and DVD Porn movies best of all -- but none of these formats achieved Live (dirty sex with a drunk co-ed) quality."
also, get the damn hippies ["...soon his monitor reveals two bearded men in the breakdown lane struggling to fix a pickup truck's flat tire."] with krappy tires OFF THE ROAD
This made me thing of the cameras installed along the major highways in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, where I live.
The original idea behind them was for traffic monitoring... and it seems to work well... police use them, news shows use them (during traffic reports) and you can pull them up on the web .
Having said that, I am a lawbreaker.
I speed constantly (90-100 mph in 60-65 zones).
It would seem that it would be fairly easy to see me zoooooming past all the othe traffic.
NEWS FLASH: SHELVES STOCKED WITH TONS OF FOOD AT GRAND UNIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHILE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD STARVE.
so, they layed big fat fiber backbone type pipes... HELLO... THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM ISNT ON THE BIG BACKBONES.
But lets point the finger at them cus some poor schmoe dialing up his 9th tier ISP in west Pennsylvania (via 28.8) is having a hard time bringing up web pages...
You could say the same of the local Police dept
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and if there is a thief / killer on the loose we all expect the police to be a little more on the offence... not just "guard better"
Same with the military... the neighborhoods just a little bigger.
In fact most Indian tribes were big on being warriors. They were fighting each other long before the (European) settlers came over. But there were a number of differences.
Indians prefered small battles (perhaps 6-20 Indians per side) and usually they just snuck up and stole stuff (horses mostly). While Europeans, usually had 'wars', which were made up of many battles.
The Indians were finite in number (tribes did not combine until almost the end of the 'old west') and therefor had very limited resourses concerning manpower. Europeans had nearly an endless supply of people. If an army troop got whiped out, the got more soldiers.
Finally technology, the gun reaches farther than an arrow.
But I think the real undoing was the fact that we simply outnumbered the Indians.
the problem there is so much crap to wade through
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All the electronic media floods us.
Even something like the telephone (which rarely rang 35 yrs ago) is now a hotline for every ***hole who wants to sell me something.
However, two things (besides pr0n) get my attention.
* A live human
* A good book
And just 1 year ago my dad's sister (she's 83) was given ("had thrust upon her" was what she said) a P166. All she does is email... to those (smiles) wonderful kids who gave it to her. She still doesnt *really* like it.
After this... my parents ask me, with pain in their eyes, if I was planning on surprising them with "one of those things".
The way seniors will become internet savey, is when savey users become seniors....
For a first "lets learn how to make the computer dance" programming language, C cannot be beat.
Later, with OO, introduce Java or C++, etc....
Then (or even first before C, like I had) Assembly.
The advantage of Assembly first, is everything appears simple after that. And, you really can understand what the hell all those functions / API's do.
The best education I had was doing Assy / C in a firmware environment. This firmware went in cards, which were installed under a few hundred manholes in Manhattan... This lead to the most important lesson I learned.. test, test, test... we would really be screwed if a bug was found and all those EEPROMS had to be replaced [no flash available back then].
...In addition, for this substation testing
1) this huge copper loop was set on 3/4" plywood on sawhorses, and held to the plywood with pretty hefty U-bolts. All this inside what looked like a huge concrete garage (single 2.5 story room open on one side)
2) We were in a facing blockhouse about 60 meters away with the control & data recording equipment.
3) when the current was pulsed, it sounded like a stick of dynamite going off.
4) the most impressive thing to me, was that the pulse (AC) would try and make the copper loop a perfect circle (?) and this translated into a physical force which, by the third and final pulse, ripped almost half the U-bolts out and up [2 1/2 stories] to embed themselves in the ceiling.
I use to work in the test lab at Burndy Connectors, where we tested connectors for these types of connections. Most of these (99.9%) are compression, or crimp connectors.
I would think the fiber would have to be quite sturdy to withstand this type of compression... as the link in the original article explains this is one of the many hurdles...
I remember our test (pulling) machine... It could grab a cable and pull both ends with up to 100,000 ft-lbs of force... and we got up into that range testing these types of connectors. We had big shields to stand behind during these tests... as the device (cable & connector) under test would/could send stuff flying when it pulled apart.
I remember the crimp had to crimp enough to really grab the steel core (to provide 95% of the cables rated tensile strength). A really good design (connector & crimp tool) could actually exceed the cables rated strength.
Now for some real fun, we use to test grounding grid connectors. Imagine a 10 meter circle of 2500mcm stranded copper cable (about 2.5 inches in diameter; with connectors every 3 meters. We would hook it up to a huge power source (usually a sub-station) and pulse high currrent thru it [I dont remember exactly somewhere around 50,000 amps, but I remember it was in the 5 to 20 megawatt range. The pulses were.2 seconds in duration. Two pulses withing a couple of minutes would raise the temp of the cable to over 100C and turn it black.....
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I doubt the AI will stop for cute chicks hitch-hiking.
I had a friend who was under an (unknown) restraining order extension. (they were now about 750 miles apart) But my friend was still pissed and sent her nasty emails from a hotmail account.
She printed off these emails on her home printer and brought them to court.
The judge didn't want top hear about how easy it would be to mock-up printed emails. It was (aparently) just to back up her testimony.
Granted, the same would not hold true for my printed emails from BG promising me $1 royality for every MS product sold.
btw - my friend can be quite pig-headed, and when he was incarcerated for the weekend, I though "good" and let him stay, even though I told him I was trying to bail him out...
Sounds like lots of things...
the ECU for my car
my home AC thermostat
my digital indoor / outdoor thermometer
Hey ... how doy you know about me surfing Japanes^M^M^M^M^M^M^M ... doh!
I am working on an article detailing the results of having a "a diverse panel of horny Slashdoters" compare real live Porn to various other Porn. The punchline: "...felt Playboy was the least realistic, with Penthouse being a bit better and DVD Porn movies best of all -- but none of these formats achieved Live (dirty sex with a drunk co-ed) quality."
By comparing the PC market TODAY with the car market of the last 20 yrs or so.
... a few yrs after the model-T
The PC market today is more like the Automobile market of the 1920-30's
just recently computers are user-friendly enough, cheap enough, and plain *usefull* enough for a wide range of human beings.
remeber, 5 years ago most people didn't know what AOL was. 10 years ago most PCs did not have (what we now consider) graphics.
"Back to work Reid!"
I wonder what high schoolers worry about these days.
Their hair.
all the damn roads are conjested.
also, get the damn hippies ["...soon his monitor reveals two bearded men in the breakdown lane struggling to fix a pickup truck's flat tire."] with krappy tires OFF THE ROAD
I have 98se on a box at home ... it does all my MS stuff fine... Upgrade? never.
;-)
... sure I have to reload the whole thing every 6 months... that's the "price" I pay
1. Long naps
2. Slow strolls down nude beaches
he's an ex-coke head [that's cocaine, not the sugar drink]
Oh ... what's that? You're a "little brain" ... tisk ... tisk
"You're not on trial here...."
This made me thing of the cameras installed along the major highways in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, where I live.
... and it seems to work well... police use them, news shows use them (during traffic reports) and you can pull them up on the web .
... there's someone at the door ...
The original idea behind them was for traffic monitoring
Having said that, I am a lawbreaker.
I speed constantly (90-100 mph in 60-65 zones).
It would seem that it would be fairly easy to see me zoooooming past all the othe traffic.
Evidently such is not the case.
Oh... hold on
for trolling, isn't it ;-)
NEWS FLASH: SHELVES STOCKED WITH TONS OF FOOD AT GRAND UNIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHILE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD STARVE.
... HELLO ... THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM ISNT ON THE BIG BACKBONES.
...
so, they layed big fat fiber backbone type pipes
But lets point the finger at them cus some poor schmoe dialing up his 9th tier ISP in west Pennsylvania (via 28.8) is having a hard time bringing up web pages
and if there is a thief / killer on the loose we all expect the police to be a little more on the offence ... not just "guard better"
... the neighborhoods just a little bigger.
Same with the military
In fact most Indian tribes were big on being warriors. They were fighting each other long before the (European) settlers came over. But there were a number of differences.
Indians prefered small battles (perhaps 6-20 Indians per side) and usually they just snuck up and stole stuff (horses mostly). While Europeans, usually had 'wars', which were made up of many battles.
The Indians were finite in number (tribes did not combine until almost the end of the 'old west') and therefor had very limited resourses concerning manpower. Europeans had nearly an endless supply of people. If an army troop got whiped out, the got more soldiers.
Finally technology, the gun reaches farther than an arrow.
But I think the real undoing was the fact that we simply outnumbered the Indians.
All the electronic media floods us.
Even something like the telephone (which rarely rang 35 yrs ago) is now a hotline for every ***hole who wants to sell me something.
However, two things (besides pr0n) get my attention.
* A live human
* A good book
to eat on a vacation in France is Hot Dogs, perhaps you should stick closer to home...
And just 1 year ago my dad's sister (she's 83) was given ("had thrust upon her" was what she said) a P166. All she does is email ... to those (smiles) wonderful kids who gave it to her. She still doesnt *really* like it.
... my parents ask me, with pain in their eyes, if I was planning on surprising them with "one of those things".
....
After this
The way seniors will become internet savey, is when savey users become seniors
For a first "lets learn how to make the computer dance" programming language, C cannot be beat.
....
... This lead to the most important lesson I learned .. test, test, test ... we would really be screwed if a bug was found and all those EEPROMS had to be replaced [no flash available back then].
Later, with OO, introduce Java or C++, etc
Then (or even first before C, like I had) Assembly.
The advantage of Assembly first, is everything appears simple after that. And, you really can understand what the hell all those functions / API's do.
The best education I had was doing Assy / C in a firmware environment. This firmware went in cards, which were installed under a few hundred manholes in Manhattan
I use to find Katz mildly entertaining ... but this ?!?
It makes me wonder about the fellows at Slashdot who decide what gets posted.
sniff-sniff (smells payola)
well, drugs use to be legal, then were made illegal. For example in the old west (USA) you could buy heroin pills for things like toothaches.
...In addition, for this substation testing
1) this huge copper loop was set on 3/4" plywood on sawhorses, and held to the plywood with pretty hefty U-bolts. All this inside what looked like a huge concrete garage (single 2.5 story room open on one side)
2) We were in a facing blockhouse about 60 meters away with the control & data recording equipment.
3) when the current was pulsed, it sounded like a stick of dynamite going off.
4) the most impressive thing to me, was that the pulse (AC) would try and make the copper loop a perfect circle (?) and this translated into a physical force which, by the third and final pulse, ripped almost half the U-bolts out and up [2 1/2 stories] to embed themselves in the ceiling.
I use to work in the test lab at Burndy Connectors, where we tested connectors for these types of connections. Most of these (99.9%) are compression, or crimp connectors.
... as the link in the original article explains this is one of the many hurdles...
... It could grab a cable and pull both ends with up to 100,000 ft-lbs of force ... and we got up into that range testing these types of connectors. We had big shields to stand behind during these tests ... as the device (cable & connector) under test would/could send stuff flying when it pulled apart.
.2 seconds in duration. Two pulses withing a couple of minutes would raise the temp of the cable to over 100C and turn it black.....
I would think the fiber would have to be quite sturdy to withstand this type of compression
I remember our test (pulling) machine
I remember the crimp had to crimp enough to really grab the steel core (to provide 95% of the cables rated tensile strength). A really good design (connector & crimp tool) could actually exceed the cables rated strength.
Now for some real fun, we use to test grounding grid connectors. Imagine a 10 meter circle of 2500mcm stranded copper cable (about 2.5 inches in diameter; with connectors every 3 meters. We would hook it up to a huge power source (usually a sub-station) and pulse high currrent thru it [I dont remember exactly somewhere around 50,000 amps, but I remember it was in the 5 to 20 megawatt range. The pulses were