If they'd make the dollar coins SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT than a quarter, enough so that you could recognize them in a pocket by feel, maybe the public would accept them. The US Mint has screwed that up both times (Anthony and Sakakawea).
Rather than SW, though, this future vision is more like WALL-E, and this little robot, albeit grounded, looks more like E.V.E. than R2D2.
And, I am sure that photo was taken in a Buy-N-Large. Bring on the floaty La-Z-Boys with the integrated, voice-controlled, see-through iPads and shake synthesizers!
I have a feeling that all of the non-Americans in the world of racing (sans NASCAR) would take issue with your calling them "rednecks"... And, "dangerous" is not a good word to use to describe modern day racing: drivers will admit that they feel safer on the track (with 100 other professional drivers) than they feel in any type of public driving situation, because they can trust the other drivers to not make a really dumb mistake, or drive while texting, or drive while eating, or drive while putting on lipstick, or....
Racing has not been used to create new tech for "everyday cars" in many, many years. It's more profitable now than ever, and has more fans now than ever before. Most of your adjectives (other than maybe "rich") are really not all that accurate to describe modern racing.
Just because you don't like it, don't dis it. I don't pay attention to ANY kind of football (American or not), but I don't tell my friends who are fans that it's a waste of time to watch the Superbowl (or the World Cup)... To each his own, and if you don't like it, you can choose not to watch it.
Another shout out for a Lenovo. I moved from my MBP to a Lenovo T430S last year. I compared lots of brands, and the Lenovo came out on top, with a mag alloy frame, 16GB of ram, and an Intel I7 processor, at half the cost of a Retina with the same specs. *At the time*, the only other (than Apple) brand that would meet those specs was Alien, and it was twice the cost and weight.
Mint runs great on it, with absolutely no driver issues at all.
Only one ding against it: the internal speakers are not that good... but I never use them anyway, so it's a very small ding.
Absolutely wonderful repair process. My touchpad died a few weeks after I got it. I called in the problem, the next morning a box showed up FedEx. I pulled the HD out and sent it the next morning, and the afternoon after that I got it back, fixed and ready to go. In this day and age, I was extremely impressed with their service attitude and speed.
Who cares????? That has NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. The insurance companies do not care about the state of the fuel supply or the usage thereof.
THIS. Hard braking may, just MAY, be because of the other assholes on the road driving with little thought to others. Or the kid who just ran out between two parked cars and damn near gave you a heart attack. Or the parked numbskull who just opened his driver's door without looking. Or any number of other incidents and situations totally out of a driver's control. The hard braking most likely thwarts a claim, because the incident was avoided because of the act of hard braking. Now, if this happens once or twice a week, that would be fine... if it happens half a dozen times a day, every day, there *might* be something to it... It really depends on the environment the driver is forced to drive in.
The problem is that the insurance companies are tying all "radical" vehicle motions into one group without accounting for the environment that the driver is in. There may be a "safer" route for the driver to take, and if the insurance companies were collecting this data in a more comprehensive fashion, that data could be made available to drivers in a dynamic way, possibly making the drive to {wherever} less stressful and require less radical forms of driving... They aren't there yet, so their methods are simply to charge the "aggressive" driver more than the timid driver, when the timid driver is probably the one not paying attention and cutting people off, opening their door into traffic, or causing some other incident that the hard braking (by other drivers) is needed for. And that also goes for harder accelleration, from personal experience...
1) You are a liberal, and you have friends that are liberal and share your views stated in the post 2) Walking the streets of even "big bad cities" is not dangerous 3) People who concealed-carry are scared of their own shadows and paranoid of the "man on the street" 4) Autos are much more dangerous than guns
Based on these three facts that you have clearly stated, why does the liberal party in the US:
1) Call for disarmament of the populace (they are less dangerous than riding or driving a car) 2) Do not call for disautoization of the populace (ok, that word was made up but it fits) 3) Promote "gun free zones" and not "auto free zones"
Dude, you are kind of making a fool of yourself with your post. And not helping your cause any, by showing that the libs are attacking the wrong target: guns instead of cars, and enforcing the idea that the "inner city, urban" population is not in a needy, crime-stricken state. Wow.
However, you are correct in stating that cars are more deadly to the populace than legal guns. Or, illegal guns for that matter. Or both put together. Not by much, mind you: in 2010, 31,672 deaths were attributed to firearms (of any type, used in any way), and 32,367 to auto deaths. (Citations: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/People/PeopleAllVictims.aspx and www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/FIREARM_DEATHS_AND_DEATH_RATES.pdf). More people die from the flu and pneumonia than by firearms (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm), and firearm deaths are absolutely dwarfed by death from cancer and heart disease!
Being the champions of the Federal Government being their "super-mom", the left has taken this media-bloated (revenue-generating: they have to sell ads!) "cause" to a higher level of importance than it should ever have been. And the rest of the world, who only hear the hyped-up news from this country and not the day-to-day, non-ad-selling news, back your silly little idea of "saving the children!" by banning guns!
The truth is, that since there's no hard-and-fast evidence, and there is no law *requiring* it, not all postive gun uses are reported and that makes it very difficult to show the inverse of your arguement. However, the vast majority of gun uses in the US are either benign or positive (www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/WP-Tough-Targets.pdf), and have led to LESS crime than ever before, even in the "big bad cities".
I don't care how big the farm is (and, btw, most farmland in production is still not corporate-owned, they are still family farms: see http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html), the industry is heavily dependent on the flow of oil. Not just for the tractors and combines: most all of the chemicals (and, face it, a farm MUST rely on chemicals to meet demand in this day and age, as bad as it is) are petroleum based as well. The output of a farm is only as good as it's ability to get the product to the market: again, fully dependent on oil.
If oil goes away, so does our food. If oil goes away, we as a country will starve. Those of us who still live in rural America will be OK and will be able to survive, but I feel for you guys who live in urban America.
... safety was the underlying catalyst for this discussion.
Not...quite. Almost everything that you stated in your quote was correct, other than the portion that I quoted (IMHO). The real story (and the catalyst in my opinion) is that Toyota fudged (intentionally or not) the processing (or reporting) of the data, and they were busted by the defense team and their analysts.
The point of Pentium100's post is that this could not happen on classic cars: they are "simple" enough that a person with just a certain level of experience can diagnose and possibly repair a problem. The newer (safer and cleaner) vehicles require digital processing and control in order to provide the safety and cleaner performance, and not even a typical professional auto technician can truly diagnose the raw data from the digital controls that was used in this case. They can read the codes presented by the controls (OBDx), and from that make decisions on what needs to be done to complete the repair, but the diagnostic level that was involved in this case is far beyond what any normal shop would or could do. And, if you choose to believe Toyota, beyond what even their diagnosticians were able to troubleshoot. Which either shows a level of incompetence or an attempt to cover up the truth.
Now, the other detail that I have a problem with is reliability. Simplicity breeds reliability. I have personally seen 60's-era Benzes with 300,000+ miles on them. I also know of mid-70s Chevy pickups that also last as long. Both of these examples were very simple compared to today's cars. I don't see many cars made today that have that kind of endurance built into them. The reason? ROHS for one. The circuit boards cannot handle the stresses of the environment, and that causes failures. Yes, mileage is (somewhat) better. Yes, they have more bells and whistles and cool stuff. Yes, they are DEFINITELY safer (absolutely no arguement there). More reliable? That could be argued.
1. You are not scared of your wife (which is actually quite unbelievable, unless your real name happens to be Sheldon Cooper),
or, and more plausible,
2. Said wife is illusory.
Given this is/., it is impossible to believe that a poster actually has either a wife or girlfriend (real, acutal, human wife or girlfriend) without proof.
Really wish I could mod that AC comment up... It is so correct, and still so un-PC.
Glad someone finally responded to the PC version of US history with the proper information. There is so much bleeding heart spin (oh, the poor Native Americans!) today that no one remembers that the American Indians were very much fighters, warriors, and conquerers in their own right. The European "invasion" (as they like to say) was nothing new to world history: all peoples have done this, and continue to do this, to this day.
Originally (and until fairly recently) most films came in reels that were only 20 minutes long...
FTFY: Temporal repair
made continuous by having multiple projectors set up where the moment one of those cans of film would end the next projector would immediately start running
FTFY: Logical placement repair
There have been a few tricks done by projectionists over the years including winding that film into a giant spool and splicing those various pieces of film together prior to what you saw in a movie theater..
Called "platter systems". This, in effect, removed the need for a projectionist, who would normally reside in the projector room, changing and rewinding film reels, cueing up the fresh reel, and switching between projectors. Any time you watch an older film, you may notice a "flash" of a black dot in the upper right corner of the film, followed ~5 seconds later by another. These were the visual cues that the projectionist followed when switching between projectors. The first was the cue to start the replacement projector running so that it was up to speed, and the second signalled the switch between the two.
As to the "BETA vs VHS" debate a few levels back: the BETA player had fewer moving parts (more reliability) and was less prone to crosstalk. It was, until recently, still used in professional broadcast situations. But for poor decisions on Sony's part (and the determination to dominate and dictate to the market), BETA would have won the battle. However, it's true that "good enough" wins in the consumer space, and the people chose.
Person with a $100k salary gets caught buying cocaine for personal use. Person goes to court and is found guilty. Judge looks at the crime and sees that it was only for personal use and the person have never been to jail before. Person gets fined (say 10% of his yearly salary) and sentenced to 3 month's of house-arrest.
...and is required to "get clean", either through a program, or by proving cleanliness for a period of time (a year? 2 years? How long does it take to break a coke habit?) through the use of blood tests (or any other acceptable means).
FTFY... you forgot your "improve the person" point (as alluded to in the portion of the comment "...where he will be forced to go to school so when he gets out he will be able to get a job and return as a productive person.")
And, to go along with this, whose hardware *isn't* produced in China? So, why are we even arguing about it? If this wasn't a targeted attack against Lenovo by the US Gov't, wouldn't they ban *all* hardware made in the PRC, which includes Apple, Dell, etc.?
Besides, since Big Brother is so all-knowing, why wouldn't they just stop the conversation between the backdoor and the Chinese bad guys? I mean, they have the big brains in their IT departments, don't they? Shouldn't they be able to detect and stop all those naughty conversations? If they can capture, record, and filter all public conversations, can't they keep their own house protected well enough to block something so simple as a covert "E.T. call home"?
Kind of makes you wonder exactly what they are trying to accomplish (or deflect attention from) with this move... There's an ulterior motive, and another, more interesting, story here behind-the-scenes...
Of course! Ours (the US news agencies) are much too busy covering the ESPYs (or Emmys, Grammys, et al), the Bachelor(ette) (or DWTS, or American Idol, et al), the Zimmerman trial (and not the technical points of the trial; rather, the "poor parents" and the "racial impact"), the Kardashians, and what to have for dinner and how it will help your sex life. They don't have time for these non-events that don't sell ads, such as a near-epidemic outbreak of a respiratory fungal disease, the illegal digital spying acts of the US Acronyms (Note: possible new geek band name there), drone crashes, and deaths of key witnesses.
Your statement inferrs that simply posing AC protects your identity on/., indicating that neither Google nor the NSA has the brains to figure out who you really are.
Hear, hear. Agree with this completely. We (the non-American Indian population) are still paying reparations for the "theft" of American Indian lands and the genocide that was practiced, and there is no end in sight. Too bad the Europeans who took this land over didn't follow in human historical precedence: conquer and assimilate. The American Indian population would be better off today. Instead, they (the European conquerers) decided to allow the American Indian population to continue their culture and their ways on land that was given to them by the conquerers. Since that time, however, that idea has been bastardized, and treaties have been broken and changed without consent, which has led to the current situation of an extreme welfare state-based country-within-a-country, to the detriment of those citizens and the continuation of the racism and division that should never have existed.
Oh, and BTW: I was born in the US. Therefore, I am, by definition, a native American: I am not an immigrant to the existing geopolitical country. Call the descendants of the inhabitants of pre-Columbian America something other than "native Americans" please, if not just for clarity. American Indian works, as does Aboriginal or First People.
Well, computers and phones and tablets and cellphones and all these other newfangled gadgets weren't around when the Forefathers framed the Constitution, so they didn't even conceive that those media would exist, so they aren't protected by the privace and s&s parts of the Bill of Rights.
Just like high-cap magazines, semi-automatic weapons, and other modern firearms. Which is why Feinstein says they should be banned, because the Forefathers had no idea that those evil thingies would be thought up by the mind of man. Apparantly she thinks that the Forefathers were dull-witted, backwards-thinking, "inside the box" types with no imagination or forethought to the future.
I cannot believe no one has yet rebutted your comments.
You, sir, are an idiot. (I would have used an expetive pronoun, but that would have been unprofessional.) You have absolutely no idea at all about the market forces or pricing when it comes to a fiber vs. copper plant, nor do you have any understanding about how *real* fiber is made or used, or glaringly obviously do not understand the technology driving the fiber.
Here are a few examples:
1) "... using actual glass fibers as opposed to plastic". There is no "plastic" fiber in use for professional infrastructure communication. We're not carrying your audio signal between your blu-ray and receiver, or lighting your dashboard.
2) "... lasers instead of LED" LEDs are ONLY used in some multimode applications. Obviously, we need more than that type of range. All infrastructure fiber is based on 1400+ NM wavelengths (other than RF overlay), which requires real lasers.
3) "... you also have to have repeaters" Wrong. Fiber ONT SFPs easily communicate to 10 KM, and there are more powerful versions that will communicate with their OLTs at 60+ KM.
4) "... then you have to forgo the classic emergency benefit where the phone lines worked even during a blackout" Wrong. ONTs are installed using a small UPS that keeps the ONT available. Also, ONTs will deactivate all ethernet connections (subscriber-side) during an outage to preserve power.
5) "since one of the sheathing layers is made out of copper to make it more resilient against damage while still being somewhat flexible" Nope. Aluminum and kevlar are typically used.
I am not a cable plant operator, so I do not know the specs of cable plants. However, I do know my fiber infrastructure has (as far as we know) close to unlimited capacity: terabit speeds have been presented in lab settings, and 100 Gb is very common, over the exact same fiber that goes to a subscriber's home. I use "unlimited" here as a marker that we have not yet found the physical limitation of fiber, and may not for a long time to come.
If you don't know about a subject, don't post about it.
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If they'd make the dollar coins SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT than a quarter, enough so that you could recognize them in a pocket by feel, maybe the public would accept them. The US Mint has screwed that up both times (Anthony and Sakakawea).
Yep. Agreed.
Rather than SW, though, this future vision is more like WALL-E, and this little robot, albeit grounded, looks more like E.V.E. than R2D2.
And, I am sure that photo was taken in a Buy-N-Large. Bring on the floaty La-Z-Boys with the integrated, voice-controlled, see-through iPads and shake synthesizers!
Seriously? A grammer nazi who cannot spell "learn"??? WTF?
Also, if you're going to be a true GN, CAPATILIZE YOUR SENTENCES!
Asshole AC. Please feed the trolls. That is all.
I have a feeling that all of the non-Americans in the world of racing (sans NASCAR) would take issue with your calling them "rednecks"... And, "dangerous" is not a good word to use to describe modern day racing: drivers will admit that they feel safer on the track (with 100 other professional drivers) than they feel in any type of public driving situation, because they can trust the other drivers to not make a really dumb mistake, or drive while texting, or drive while eating, or drive while putting on lipstick, or....
Racing has not been used to create new tech for "everyday cars" in many, many years. It's more profitable now than ever, and has more fans now than ever before. Most of your adjectives (other than maybe "rich") are really not all that accurate to describe modern racing.
Just because you don't like it, don't dis it. I don't pay attention to ANY kind of football (American or not), but I don't tell my friends who are fans that it's a waste of time to watch the Superbowl (or the World Cup)... To each his own, and if you don't like it, you can choose not to watch it.
Another shout out for a Lenovo. I moved from my MBP to a Lenovo T430S last year. I compared lots of brands, and the Lenovo came out on top, with a mag alloy frame, 16GB of ram, and an Intel I7 processor, at half the cost of a Retina with the same specs. *At the time*, the only other (than Apple) brand that would meet those specs was Alien, and it was twice the cost and weight.
Mint runs great on it, with absolutely no driver issues at all.
Only one ding against it: the internal speakers are not that good... but I never use them anyway, so it's a very small ding.
Absolutely wonderful repair process. My touchpad died a few weeks after I got it. I called in the problem, the next morning a box showed up FedEx. I pulled the HD out and sent it the next morning, and the afternoon after that I got it back, fixed and ready to go. In this day and age, I was extremely impressed with their service attitude and speed.
Who cares????? That has NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. The insurance companies do not care about the state of the fuel supply or the usage thereof.
THIS. Hard braking may, just MAY, be because of the other assholes on the road driving with little thought to others. Or the kid who just ran out between two parked cars and damn near gave you a heart attack. Or the parked numbskull who just opened his driver's door without looking. Or any number of other incidents and situations totally out of a driver's control. The hard braking most likely thwarts a claim, because the incident was avoided because of the act of hard braking. Now, if this happens once or twice a week, that would be fine... if it happens half a dozen times a day, every day, there *might* be something to it... It really depends on the environment the driver is forced to drive in.
The problem is that the insurance companies are tying all "radical" vehicle motions into one group without accounting for the environment that the driver is in. There may be a "safer" route for the driver to take, and if the insurance companies were collecting this data in a more comprehensive fashion, that data could be made available to drivers in a dynamic way, possibly making the drive to {wherever} less stressful and require less radical forms of driving... They aren't there yet, so their methods are simply to charge the "aggressive" driver more than the timid driver, when the timid driver is probably the one not paying attention and cutting people off, opening their door into traffic, or causing some other incident that the hard braking (by other drivers) is needed for. And that also goes for harder accelleration, from personal experience...
We started counting at 0 remember
As does the age of children... They are "0" until thier FIRST birthday, which is when they turn 1. So, the "6 year old" logic still stands.
A couple of facts that you state:
1) You are a liberal, and you have friends that are liberal and share your views stated in the post
2) Walking the streets of even "big bad cities" is not dangerous
3) People who concealed-carry are scared of their own shadows and paranoid of the "man on the street"
4) Autos are much more dangerous than guns
Based on these three facts that you have clearly stated, why does the liberal party in the US:
1) Call for disarmament of the populace (they are less dangerous than riding or driving a car)
2) Do not call for disautoization of the populace (ok, that word was made up but it fits)
3) Promote "gun free zones" and not "auto free zones"
Dude, you are kind of making a fool of yourself with your post. And not helping your cause any, by showing that the libs are attacking the wrong target: guns instead of cars, and enforcing the idea that the "inner city, urban" population is not in a needy, crime-stricken state. Wow.
However, you are correct in stating that cars are more deadly to the populace than legal guns. Or, illegal guns for that matter. Or both put together. Not by much, mind you: in 2010, 31,672 deaths were attributed to firearms (of any type, used in any way), and 32,367 to auto deaths. (Citations: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/People/PeopleAllVictims.aspx and www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/FIREARM_DEATHS_AND_DEATH_RATES.pdf). More people die from the flu and pneumonia than by firearms (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm), and firearm deaths are absolutely dwarfed by death from cancer and heart disease!
Being the champions of the Federal Government being their "super-mom", the left has taken this media-bloated (revenue-generating: they have to sell ads!) "cause" to a higher level of importance than it should ever have been. And the rest of the world, who only hear the hyped-up news from this country and not the day-to-day, non-ad-selling news, back your silly little idea of "saving the children!" by banning guns!
The truth is, that since there's no hard-and-fast evidence, and there is no law *requiring* it, not all postive gun uses are reported and that makes it very difficult to show the inverse of your arguement. However, the vast majority of gun uses in the US are either benign or positive (www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/WP-Tough-Targets.pdf), and have led to LESS crime than ever before, even in the "big bad cities".
Citation: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925
This.
I don't care how big the farm is (and, btw, most farmland in production is still not corporate-owned, they are still family farms: see http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html), the industry is heavily dependent on the flow of oil. Not just for the tractors and combines: most all of the chemicals (and, face it, a farm MUST rely on chemicals to meet demand in this day and age, as bad as it is) are petroleum based as well. The output of a farm is only as good as it's ability to get the product to the market: again, fully dependent on oil.
If oil goes away, so does our food. If oil goes away, we as a country will starve. Those of us who still live in rural America will be OK and will be able to survive, but I feel for you guys who live in urban America.
... safety was the underlying catalyst for this discussion.
Not...quite. Almost everything that you stated in your quote was correct, other than the portion that I quoted (IMHO). The real story (and the catalyst in my opinion) is that Toyota fudged (intentionally or not) the processing (or reporting) of the data, and they were busted by the defense team and their analysts.
The point of Pentium100's post is that this could not happen on classic cars: they are "simple" enough that a person with just a certain level of experience can diagnose and possibly repair a problem. The newer (safer and cleaner) vehicles require digital processing and control in order to provide the safety and cleaner performance, and not even a typical professional auto technician can truly diagnose the raw data from the digital controls that was used in this case. They can read the codes presented by the controls (OBDx), and from that make decisions on what needs to be done to complete the repair, but the diagnostic level that was involved in this case is far beyond what any normal shop would or could do. And, if you choose to believe Toyota, beyond what even their diagnosticians were able to troubleshoot. Which either shows a level of incompetence or an attempt to cover up the truth.
Now, the other detail that I have a problem with is reliability. Simplicity breeds reliability. I have personally seen 60's-era Benzes with 300,000+ miles on them. I also know of mid-70s Chevy pickups that also last as long. Both of these examples were very simple compared to today's cars. I don't see many cars made today that have that kind of endurance built into them. The reason? ROHS for one. The circuit boards cannot handle the stresses of the environment, and that causes failures. Yes, mileage is (somewhat) better. Yes, they have more bells and whistles and cool stuff. Yes, they are DEFINITELY safer (absolutely no arguement there). More reliable? That could be argued.
Wow... You actually did this non-AC.
Which means one of two things:
1. You are not scared of your wife (which is actually quite unbelievable, unless your real name happens to be Sheldon Cooper),
or, and more plausible,
2. Said wife is illusory.
Given this is /., it is impossible to believe that a poster actually has either a wife or girlfriend (real, acutal, human wife or girlfriend) without proof.
Really wish I could mod that AC comment up... It is so correct, and still so un-PC.
Glad someone finally responded to the PC version of US history with the proper information. There is so much bleeding heart spin (oh, the poor Native Americans!) today that no one remembers that the American Indians were very much fighters, warriors, and conquerers in their own right. The European "invasion" (as they like to say) was nothing new to world history: all peoples have done this, and continue to do this, to this day.
It's part of being human.
"You assholes"? Seriously? You think that all Americans were involved in and supported that fiasco?
That's exactly the same as saying "All Germans are Jew-killing Nazis".
Talk about an being an asshole!
Originally (and until fairly recently) most films came in reels that were only 20 minutes long...
FTFY: Temporal repair
made continuous by having multiple projectors set up where the moment one of those cans of film would end the next projector would immediately start running
FTFY: Logical placement repair
There have been a few tricks done by projectionists over the years including winding that film into a giant spool and splicing those various pieces of film together prior to what you saw in a movie theater..
Called "platter systems". This, in effect, removed the need for a projectionist, who would normally reside in the projector room, changing and rewinding film reels, cueing up the fresh reel, and switching between projectors. Any time you watch an older film, you may notice a "flash" of a black dot in the upper right corner of the film, followed ~5 seconds later by another. These were the visual cues that the projectionist followed when switching between projectors. The first was the cue to start the replacement projector running so that it was up to speed, and the second signalled the switch between the two.
As to the "BETA vs VHS" debate a few levels back: the BETA player had fewer moving parts (more reliability) and was less prone to crosstalk. It was, until recently, still used in professional broadcast situations. But for poor decisions on Sony's part (and the determination to dominate and dictate to the market), BETA would have won the battle. However, it's true that "good enough" wins in the consumer space, and the people chose.
Person with a $100k salary gets caught buying cocaine for personal use. Person goes to court and is found guilty. Judge looks at the crime and sees that it was only for personal use and the person have never been to jail before. Person gets fined (say 10% of his yearly salary) and sentenced to 3 month's of house-arrest.
...and is required to "get clean", either through a program, or by proving cleanliness for a period of time (a year? 2 years? How long does it take to break a coke habit?) through the use of blood tests (or any other acceptable means).
FTFY... you forgot your "improve the person" point (as alluded to in the portion of the comment "...where he will be forced to go to school so when he gets out he will be able to get a job and return as a productive person.")
Agreed!
And, to go along with this, whose hardware *isn't* produced in China? So, why are we even arguing about it? If this wasn't a targeted attack against Lenovo by the US Gov't, wouldn't they ban *all* hardware made in the PRC, which includes Apple, Dell, etc.?
Besides, since Big Brother is so all-knowing, why wouldn't they just stop the conversation between the backdoor and the Chinese bad guys? I mean, they have the big brains in their IT departments, don't they? Shouldn't they be able to detect and stop all those naughty conversations? If they can capture, record, and filter all public conversations, can't they keep their own house protected well enough to block something so simple as a covert "E.T. call home"?
Kind of makes you wonder exactly what they are trying to accomplish (or deflect attention from) with this move... There's an ulterior motive, and another, more interesting, story here behind-the-scenes...
Of course! Ours (the US news agencies) are much too busy covering the ESPYs (or Emmys, Grammys, et al), the Bachelor(ette) (or DWTS, or American Idol, et al), the Zimmerman trial (and not the technical points of the trial; rather, the "poor parents" and the "racial impact"), the Kardashians, and what to have for dinner and how it will help your sex life. They don't have time for these non-events that don't sell ads, such as a near-epidemic outbreak of a respiratory fungal disease, the illegal digital spying acts of the US Acronyms (Note: possible new geek band name there), drone crashes, and deaths of key witnesses.
Amen.
Your statement inferrs that simply posing AC protects your identity on /., indicating that neither Google nor the NSA has the brains to figure out who you really are.
Calling BS on this one.
It's "monarchy", and "reign". Unless, of course, your king uses equinity as a ruling style...
Hear, hear. Agree with this completely. We (the non-American Indian population) are still paying reparations for the "theft" of American Indian lands and the genocide that was practiced, and there is no end in sight. Too bad the Europeans who took this land over didn't follow in human historical precedence: conquer and assimilate. The American Indian population would be better off today. Instead, they (the European conquerers) decided to allow the American Indian population to continue their culture and their ways on land that was given to them by the conquerers. Since that time, however, that idea has been bastardized, and treaties have been broken and changed without consent, which has led to the current situation of an extreme welfare state-based country-within-a-country, to the detriment of those citizens and the continuation of the racism and division that should never have existed.
Oh, and BTW: I was born in the US. Therefore, I am, by definition, a native American: I am not an immigrant to the existing geopolitical country. Call the descendants of the inhabitants of pre-Columbian America something other than "native Americans" please, if not just for clarity. American Indian works, as does Aboriginal or First People.
Well, computers and phones and tablets and cellphones and all these other newfangled gadgets weren't around when the Forefathers framed the Constitution, so they didn't even conceive that those media would exist, so they aren't protected by the privace and s&s parts of the Bill of Rights.
Just like high-cap magazines, semi-automatic weapons, and other modern firearms. Which is why Feinstein says they should be banned, because the Forefathers had no idea that those evil thingies would be thought up by the mind of man. Apparantly she thinks that the Forefathers were dull-witted, backwards-thinking, "inside the box" types with no imagination or forethought to the future.
JMO
I cannot believe no one has yet rebutted your comments.
You, sir, are an idiot. (I would have used an expetive pronoun, but that would have been unprofessional.) You have absolutely no idea at all about the market forces or pricing when it comes to a fiber vs. copper plant, nor do you have any understanding about how *real* fiber is made or used, or glaringly obviously do not understand the technology driving the fiber.
Here are a few examples:
1) "... using actual glass fibers as opposed to plastic". There is no "plastic" fiber in use for professional infrastructure communication. We're not carrying your audio signal between your blu-ray and receiver, or lighting your dashboard.
2) "... lasers instead of LED" LEDs are ONLY used in some multimode applications. Obviously, we need more than that type of range. All infrastructure fiber is based on 1400+ NM wavelengths (other than RF overlay), which requires real lasers.
3) "... you also have to have repeaters" Wrong. Fiber ONT SFPs easily communicate to 10 KM, and there are more powerful versions that will communicate with their OLTs at 60+ KM.
4) "... then you have to forgo the classic emergency benefit where the phone lines worked even during a blackout" Wrong. ONTs are installed using a small UPS that keeps the ONT available. Also, ONTs will deactivate all ethernet connections (subscriber-side) during an outage to preserve power.
5) "since one of the sheathing layers is made out of copper to make it more resilient against damage while still being somewhat flexible" Nope. Aluminum and kevlar are typically used.
I am not a cable plant operator, so I do not know the specs of cable plants. However, I do know my fiber infrastructure has (as far as we know) close to unlimited capacity: terabit speeds have been presented in lab settings, and 100 Gb is very common, over the exact same fiber that goes to a subscriber's home. I use "unlimited" here as a marker that we have not yet found the physical limitation of fiber, and may not for a long time to come.
If you don't know about a subject, don't post about it.